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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Pence at Liberty University calls on Christians to forgive Trump  —  113 Shares  —  Mike Pence had a message Wednesday for evangelical Christians: They should forgive Donald Trump.  —  The Indiana governor's plea on behalf of his running came in the wake of the Friday release of a 2005 recording …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …