Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing  —  “Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before.”  —  Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.

Poll: Trump falls into tie with Clinton among Utah voters  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Republican Donald Trump appears to have, in his earlier words, “a tremendous problem in Utah” as a new poll shows him slipping into a dead heat with Democrat Hillary Clinton since crude comments he made about women surfaced last weekend.

Major GOP Donors Are Asking Trump for Their Money Back  —  Donald Trump's big-dollar donors asking for their money back, NBC News learns 2:52  —  Two big-money donors who have given or raised tens of thousands of dollars for Donald Trump are livid at the Republican presidential nominee …

Trump campaign manager squabbles with Anderson Cooper over polls  —  Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway stole a play from the GOP nominee's playbook Tuesday night, labeling Hillary Clinton “the magic 46” for her inability to climb higher in the polls despite an array of advantages.

NY Trump Supporter Arrested After Threatening To Beat Black Woman  —  A Donald Trump supporter was arrested Monday night after allegedly threatening to beat a black woman outside a ShopRite in upstate New York, the Albany Times-Union reported.  —  Todd Warnken, 55, was asked to leave the store after …

'I Think He's a Very Dangerous Man for the Next Three or Four Weeks'  —  Back in early March, Politico Magazine brought together five Donald Trump biographers for a conversation over lunch at Trump Tower.  At the time, the country was just beginning to grapple with the reality …

F.B.I. Investigating if Fatal Plane Crash in East Hartford Was Intentional  —  The F.B.I. is investigating whether the crash of a small plane in East Hartford, Conn., that killed a passenger on Tuesday was intentional, according to four federal law enforcement officials.

Election Update: Women Are Defeating Donald Trump  —  A series of national polls released on Tuesday showed Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by margins ranging from 5 to 11 percentage points — except for the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times tracking poll, which defiantly continues to show Trump up by 2 points.

Exclusive: Trump campaign CEO wanted to destroy Ryan  —  's presidential campaign, gave explicit orders to his staff to destroy Speaker Paul Ryan  —  (R-Wis.).  —  On editorial conference calls, the Breitbart chairman would often say “Paul Ryan is the enemy,” according to a source who worked with Bannon at the news organization.

Support for marijuana legalization continues to rise  —  The share of Americans who favor legalizing the use of marijuana continues to increase.  Today, 57% of U.S. adults say the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 37% say it should be illegal.  A decade ago, opinion on legalizing marijuana …

Will Toomey back Trump?  He says he may not tell voters  —  Locked in one of the country's toughest Senate races, Toomey on Tuesday refused to rule out voting for Donald Trump for president despite building political pressure and defections by high-profile Republicans after release of a video …

Split Over Donald Trump Threatens to Tilt Republican States  —  Donald J. Trump's intensifying battle with his own party is tearing open the nation's political map, pulling Republicans across the country into a self-destructive feud that could imperil dozens of lawmakers in Congress …

NC's 2016 Voter Turnout (through 10 October)  —  This is the second in a twice-weekly series of updates detailing pre-Election Day voter turnout across North Carolina in near real time, employing State Board of Elections data.  New installments appear here on the Insight(u)s Blog on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons through Nov. 8th.

History Is Full of Surprises  —  History is full of surprises.  Never have I, looking back on history, found it to go precisely as I had anticipated it would go.  Always the reality of history's progress plays tricks on us.  It now appears that the sexual revolution begun in the late 1960s is ending …