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.

How Hillary Clinton should go in for the kill  —  Hillary Clinton's extraordinary run of good electoral luck is continuing, with Donald Trump in a full-blown meltdown over the party's reaction to his 2005 comments about sexual assault.  He's attacking Speaker of the House Paul Ryan …

How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages  —  There is a 19-year-old black man in Illinois who has no idea of the role he is playing in this election.  —  He is sure he is going to vote for Donald J. Trump.  —  And he has been held up as proof by conservatives …

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 …

Despite disappointment, Thune to vote for Trump  —  South Dakota's senior U.S. senator said Tuesday that the current presidential campaign represented “a race to the bottom,” but that he would still likely cast his ballot for GOP hopeful Donald Trump.  —  In the wake of Friday's release …

Conway: GOP ‘dangerously close’ to becoming party of elites until Trump  —  Far from alienating many who might otherwise vote for a Republican for president, Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Wednesday morning that the Manhattan billionaire has rescued the GOP from becoming “the party of the elites.”

Dear Speaker Ryan: Resign  —  Dear Mr. Speaker:  —  I like you.  —  We both admired and worked for Jack Kemp at different stages of his career.  I agree with much of your Kemp-style agenda.  So it gives me no pleasure to say what is now abundantly obvious.

LAPD detective investigating Derrick Rose case found dead of gunshot wound in Whittier  —  An LAPD employee was fatally shot in Whittier on Tuesday.  (KTLA)  —  A Los Angeles Police Department detective who was investigating rape allegations against NBA star Derrick Rose died after being found …

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.

Police: Trump supporter threatens black woman in Albany  —  55-year-old white man faces aggravated harassment charge  —  ALBANY — A Trump supporter threatened to beat a black woman and called her racial slurs after being kicked out of a grocery store Monday night, Albany police spokesman Steve Smith said.

Pence Makes The Case At Liberty University That Christians Should Forgive Trump  —  LYNCHBURG, Va. — Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence urged Christian college students on Wednesday to vote for Donald Trump despite his behavior, continuing his damage control efforts as the tape controversy continues this week.

New Marquette Law School Poll finds Wisconsin voters shifting support to Clinton after Trump video release  —  MILWAUKEE - A new Marquette Law School Poll finds 44 percent of Wisconsin likely voters supporting Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for president and 37 percent supporting Republican Donald …

SCROLL DOWN  —  Joi Ito, Scott Dadich, and President Barack Obama photographed in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on August 24, 2016.  —  Photographs by Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos for WIRED  —  IT'S HARD TO think of a single technology that will shape our world more in the next 50 years than artificial intelligence.

Donald Trump Attacks Help Hillary Clinton Forge Truce in Her Long War With the Media  —  Now that Donald Trump has disinterred a heap of 1990s-era scandals, Hillary Clinton is under the microscope for how she reacted then, and how she's reacting now as a woman standing by her man.

Trump hints that Ryan is part of ‘sinister deal’ … One day after warning the GOP that his “shackles” are off, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump  —  floated the prospect of a “sinister deal” preventing Speaker Paul Ryan  —  (R-Wis.) from coming to his defense.

Catholic group demands top Clinton aide resign over leaked emails  —  A top aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton  —  is under fire from Catholic groups for remarks she made in hacked emails published by WikiLeaks, with one group calling on Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri to resign.

Danger on November 9th  —  I've been wanting to discuss this.  But so much has been happening it keeps getting pushed back to the next day or the next post.  Quite simply, everybody needs to be paying close attention to what happens on November 9th.  —  It now seems quite likely …

Russia orders all officials to fly home any relatives living abroad, as tensions mount over the prospect of a global war  —  Russia is ordering all of its officials to fly home any relatives living abroad amid heightened tensions over the prospect of global war, it has been claimed.

Facebook Helped Drive a Voter Registration Surge, Election Officials Say  —  A 17-word Facebook reminder contributed to substantial increases in online voter registration across the country, according to top election officials.  —  At least nine secretaries of state have credited …

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 …

What the WikiLeaks Emails Say About Clinton  —  “There is no other Donald Trump,” Hillary Clinton likes to say about her opponent.  “This is it.”  —  The events of the last two weeks—Trump's two debate performances, the release of his bawdy comments about women in a 2005 video clip …