No happy warriors to be found at Al Smith dinner  —  Washington (CNN)No one would confuse Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for happy warriors.  —  The rivals showed up Thursday night at a fabled staging post on the final stretch of presidential campaigns — the Al Smith charity dinner in New York.

AJC poll: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in Georgia  —  Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in Georgia with less than three weeks until Election Day, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.  —  The poll released Friday shows Trump leading Clinton …

Trump national political director ‘steps back’ from campaign  —  Jim Murphy, Donald Trump's national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move - a troubling development for the Republican nominee coming just 19 days before the election.

Trump's incredible shrinking map  —  In June, POLITICO identified 11 key battleground states — totaling 146 electoral votes — that would effectively decide the presidential election in November.  A new examination of polling data and strategic campaign ad buys indicates that six of those 11 …

Former Republican Party Chairman Says He Won't Vote For Trump  —  Steele at a debate last year.  —  Ethan Miller / Getty Images  —  Michael Steele, who led the Republican Party from 2009 to 2011, became the latest senior Republican figure to say he would not vote for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump Leaves a Car Wreck Behind  —  Republicans can repair the damage in 2018, but only if the party's malcontents stop believing that compromise is a four-letter word.  —  Re­pub­lic­ans will now have four years to think about what they did to them­selves this year …

Videos Put Democrats on Defensive About Dirty Tricks  —  A Democratic operative, wearing a checkered blue shirt and a tie, spoke calmly, explaining exactly how agents could infiltrate the rallies of Donald J. Trump and cause mayhem among the Republican's nominee team, his security staff and supporters.

Fact-Checking the Debate Fact-Checkers on Abortion  —  Yes, Hillary Clinton is a late-term-abortion radical.  —  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed Monday night about partial-birth and late-term abortion.  Judging by the media coverage of that exchange, there seems to be a fair amount of confusion about these subjects.

Kansas House leader calls Hitler's words ‘profound’ in Facebook post … A Kansas House leader said Thursday that her intent was to criticize Planned Parenthood when she called Adolf Hitler's words profound in a Facebook post.  —  “Great quote from Hitler in the video,” Speaker Pro Tem Peggy Mast …

Who I'm voting for, and why: We are enduring a campaign of seemingly boundless cynicism  —  The case against Hillary Clinton could have been written before the recent WikiLeaks and FBI disclosures.  But these documents do provide hard textual backup.  —  The most sensational disclosure …

Could mysterious hexagonal clouds in Bermuda Triangle caused by 170mph ‘air bombs’ be behind centuries of bizarre disappearances?  —  It is believed these deadly blasts of air that can flip over ships and bring planes crashing into the ocean could be behind the vanishing of at least 75 planes and hundreds of ships

WikiLeaks releases messages from Obama  —  WikiLeaks has published several emails sent to and from then-Sen. Barack Obama  —  in October 2008, just before he won his first presidential election.  —  The emails sent to John Podesta, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton

WikiLeaks poisons Hillary's relationship with left  —  LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump is pointing to a stream of hacked emails as proof that Hillary Clinton would be a compromised president, but a surprising number of progressives are drawing similar conclusions — albeit for a totally different reasons.

Trump Leads McMullin by One Point Among Likely Utah Voters  —  Donald Trump has a slim one-point lead over independent candidate Evan McMullin among likely voters in Utah.  Democrat Hillary Clinton is in third place.  —  The survey, commissioned by UtahPolicy.com, is the third straight survey …

Most states have no laws about guns in polling places.  Some election officials think that could be a problem.  —  Most states have no laws regarding guns in polling places, because for the most part, they haven't really needed to make them.  The confluence of firearms and polling places …

GOP braces for Trump loss, roiled by refusal to accept election results  —  LAS VEGAS — A wave of apprehension and anguish swept the Republican Party on Thursday, with many GOP leaders alarmed by Donald Trump's refusal to accept the outcome of the election and concluding it is probably …

Donald Trump vs. American Democracy  —  I'm just stunned.  —  In a race that has been full of shocking moments, one at Wednesday's presidential debate stands out as the most shocking: Donald Trump's refusal to commit to accepting the outcome of the election.

Obama Roasts Rubio: You Call Trump A ‘Con Artist’ But You'll Vote For Him?  —  President Barack Obama read Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and, by proxy, the entire Republican Party, the riot act on Thursday for supporting Donald Trump despite previously condemning him.