At charity roast, Donald Trump delivered what might as well be a campaign eulogy  —  NEW YORK — It was supposed to be his opening joke, but it landed with such heavy bitterness that it prompted scattered, uncomfortable laughter.  —  “A special hello to all of you in this room who have known and loved me for many, many years.

DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS  —  Monitoring - Services have been restored to normal as of 13:20 UTC.  —  Oct 21, 13:36 UTC  —  Update - This attack is mainly impacting US East and is impacting Managed DNS customers in this region.  Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue.

GOP congressman on Clinton: 'A lady needs to be told when she's being nasty'  —  (CNN)Republican Rep. Brian Babin on Thursday defended Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton “a nasty woman” at the final presidential debate, saying “sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty.”

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 …

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.

Early voting results promising for Clinton in battleground states  —  Washington (CNN)There are hints of good news for Hillary Clinton in key battleground states as millions of Americans vote early, according to a CNN analysis of the latest early voting statistics.  —  More than 3.3 million Americans have already voted.

How to Repair Moral Capital  —  Hillary Clinton, who has been in politics all her adult life, seems to have learned something from Michelle Obama, who has never run for public office.  Clinton gave three masterful answers in the debate Wednesday night that were tonally different from her normal clichés.

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 …

Jake Tapper hammers Think Progress for publishing story it knew was false  —  One of the things that has become clear in the wake of Wikileaks dump of Podesta emails is that a lot of journalists have a very cozy—one could even say sycophantic— relationship with Democrats.

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 …

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 totally different reasons.

Amid ‘rigged’ election charges, Russia wants to monitor U.S. vote  —  Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump's take on rigged elections ‘horrifying.’ USA TODAY  —  In an apparent move to embarrass the United States over Donald Trump's claims of a “rigged” presidential election …

Gretchen Carlson's Next Fight  —  Belinda Luscombe is an editor-at-large of TIME  —  The former Fox News star is taking on sexual harassment.  And she likes to win.  —  When Gretchen Carlson was a cub reporter in Virginia in the early '90s, she was returning from a shoot in the TV production truck …

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

The mechanics of Donald Trump's rejection of November's results just got a little more fleshed out  —  1. Reject polling as inaccurate.  The guy who spent five minutes in every speech from July 2015 to March 2016 talking about his poll numbers has recently begun disparaging what the same pollsters see now.

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.

First Post-Debate Poll: Clinton Wins Third Debate, Keeps Trump at a Distance  —  Hillary Clinton maintains her lead over Donald Trump after completing her sweep Wednesday, with a healthy plurality of voters naming her the winner of the third and final presidential debate.