Inside the Trump Bunker, With 12 Days to Go  —  Win or lose, the Republican candidate and his inner circle have built a direct marketing operation that could power a TV network—or finish off the GOP.  —  Subscribe Reprints  —  On Oct. 19, as the third and final presidential debate gets …

Cruz: GOP may block Supreme Court nominees indefinitely  —  In a vintage return to his confrontational style, Sen. Ted Cruz indicated that Republicans could seek to block a Democratic president from filling the vacant Supreme Court seat indefinitely.  —  After staking his endorsement of Donald …

Beneath Cheers at Donald Trump's Rallies, Dark Fears Take Hold  —  COLORADO SPRINGS — Big crowds still mob Donald J. Trump when he comes to town, with fans waiting in long lines to attend his rallies, where they eagerly jeer his Democratic rival and holler happily at his message.

Jill Stein's Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another  —  Green Party Presidential Nominee Jill Stein has largely based her campaign on her uncompromising positions on the environment, opposition to big banks and Wall Street, defense contractors, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Inside ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’: Hacked memo reveals intersection of charity and personal income  —  When top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band wrote the memo, he was a central player at the Clinton Foundation and president of his own corporate consulting firm.  He made a case that his work had served …

UNF poll: Clinton leads Trump in 4-way race  —  Lead narrows in two-way race polling  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 4 percentage points among likely voters in Florida, according to a poll released Thursday by the University of North Florida.

California poll: Trump's numbers dropping into ‘uncharted territory’  —  Less than two weeks before Election Day, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris have commanding leads and propositions to legalize marijuana and levy a $2-per-pack tax on cigarettes appear heading for approval.

Megyn Kelly Seeks Salary North of $20 Million in Contract Talks With Fox News  —  ‘The Kelly File’ host is in active negotiations; keeping her at the network is a priority for management, including Rupert Murdoch.  'It's up to her' and others ‘would give their right arm for her spot,’ he says.

Gallup: Support for ban on assault weapons hits all-time low  —  “All-time” means “in the 20 years they've been measuring this,” but still.  In 1996, amid soaring public concern about crime, support for a ban stood at 57/42.  Twenty years later, after a long period of stupendous decline …

House Republicans are already preparing for ‘years’ of investigations of Clinton  —  SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — Jason Chaffetz, the Utah congressman wrapping up his first term atop the powerful House Oversight Committee, un-endorsed Donald Trump weeks ago.  That freed up him to prepare for something else …

Mark Halperin Tells Trump What He Wants to Hear in Embarrassing Interview  —  How do you get Donald Trump to talk to you with less than two weeks to go before Election Day?  Tell him exactly what he wants to hear.  That's been the approach by Fox News' Sean Hannity and radio host Rush Limbaugh.

UT/TT Poll: In Texas, Trump holding narrow lead over Clinton  —  Donald Trump and Mike Pence held a 45-42 lead over Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a three-percentage-point lead …

State Dept. months late on explaining Clinton aide's missing emails  —  The State Department is months behind on a request that it explain how a former IT aide's emails appeared to have disappeared, and Republicans are crying foul.  —  Documents obtained by the Republican National Committee …

Poll: Clinton builds lead in divided nation worried about Election Day violence  —  WASHINGTON — As the most caustic campaign in modern American history nears its close, Hillary Clinton has built a formidable lead over Donald Trump approaching 10 percentage points, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds.

Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert ‘a Couple of Things’ About Mosul  —  Donald Trump went on the offensive against a military expert and former dean of the Army War College, Jeff McCausland, who said the Republican nominee's comments this weekend about the battle to reclaim Mosul …

Patton Oswalt: 'I'll Never Be at 100 Percent Again'  —  WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Michelle McNamara, a 46-year-old true-crime writer, died chasing a serial killer.  —  The Golden State Killer, a name she coined while working on a book about him, raped and murdered dozens of victims in the 1970s and '80s and remains at large.

The Kansas Economy: Three Pictures  —  The Philadelphia Fed released coincident indices today.  Figure 1 shows state-by-state 3 month trends.  Needless to say, the outlook for Kansas — that laboratory for supply side nostrums — is not auspicious.  —  Source: Philadelphia Fed, accessed 26 Oct 2016.

Trump-Linked Voter Intimidation Group Releases New Script For ‘Citizen Journalists’  —  Vote Protectors wants volunteers to approach voters on Election Day to ask about “election fraud.”  —  National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  Vote Protectors, an anti-voter-fraud group loyal …

Why Are Influential Celebrities Remaining Silent This Election?  —  From Taylor Swift to Mark Wahlberg.  —  In a normal election, many people would likely discredit a celebrity's endorsement of a presidential candidate as a meaningless gesture.  But when an election involves cruel insults hurled …

Trump promises ‘new deal for Black America’  —  called for a “new deal for black America” in a Wednesday afternoon address, as he works to bridge the gap he faces with the crucial voting bloc less than two weeks from Election Day.  —  Speaking in Charlotte, N.C., the GOP nominee criticized years …

Republicans in Congress Fear Losses, and Then the Hard Part  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have come to grudgingly accept an unfolding reality: Things are not looking good.  —  Donald J. Trump is lagging in polls and pulling down the party's congressional candidates …

US liver donor marries woman whose life he saved  —  When Christopher Dempsey offered to donate half his liver to a complete stranger, he knew it would be a life-changing experience.  —  What the former marine didn't know was that he would be saving the life of the woman who would become his wife.

Bill Weld Wants a Seat at the Table  —  The Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate on Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, and the importance of having a navy.  —  When Bill Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, decided to join Gary Johnson's campaign for the presidency …

Church pastor: The truth about my late-term abortion  —  Trump's words drove me to tears, and to write my painful story for the first time.  —  Elections are supposed to be about real people — and not the ones whose names appear on the ballot.  They are supposed to be about all of us …

Former congressman says he will literally engage in armed rebellion if Trump loses  —  He's suggesting actual treason.  —  Joe Walsh, who was a United States congressman from 2011 until 2013, declared on Wednesday afternoon that he will take up arms if Donald Trump is not elected to the presidency.

Republican women increasingly fear party is alienating female voters  —  A growing number of prominent Republican women are worried that as members of their male-dominated party step up to defend Donald Trump against accusations of sexual assault, they are causing irreparable damage …

Article presented ‘fictionalized version’ of events, former friends of ‘Jackie’ say … In the article that first exposed the world to her allegations of having been gang-raped by seven men in a fraternity house, three former friends of “Jackie” are described as coming to the then-freshman's aid …