James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake  —  Eric Holder was U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015.  —  I began my career in the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section 40 years ago, investigating cases of official corruption.  In the years since …

CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile  —  CNN says it is “completely uncomfortable” with hacked emails showing that former contributor and interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile shared questions with the Clinton campaign before a debate and a town hall during the Democratic primary, and has accepted her resignation.

Trump: Thank You Anthony Weiner!  Good Job Huma!  —  At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Donald Trump comments on the latest twist in the Hillary Clinton email saga.  —  “Thank you, Huma,” he declared to Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin.  “Good job, Huma.”  —  To her husband he said: “Thank you, Anthony Weiner!”

Donald Trump is refusing to pay his campaign pollster three-quarters of a million dollars  —  Donald Trump's hiring of pollster Tony Fabrizio in May was viewed as a sign that the real estate mogul was finally bringing seasoned operatives into his insurgent operation.

DONALD TRUMP'S COMPANIES DESTROYED EMAILS IN DEFIANCE OF COURT ORDERS  —  U.S. DONALD TRUMP 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HILLARY EMAILS  —  Over the course of decades, Donald Trump's companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded …

Voting Early, and in Droves: Nearly 22 Million Ballots Are Already In  —  With nine days until the general election, almost 22 million people have already voted, through early voting and absentee ballots.  —  In many states, the number of early voters is lower than at the same point in the 2012 cycle.

Harry Reid's incendiary claim about ‘coordination’ between Donald Trump and Russia  —  In a letter to FBI Director James B. Comey on Sunday night, outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) says Comey may have broken the law.  —  And that's not even the most brazen claim in the letter — not by a long shot.

Deep Unfavorability for Clinton, Trump Marks the Election's Sharp Divisions (POLL)  —  Likely voters see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump equally unfavorably, with a nearly complete partisan split in views of the two — testament both to the unprecedented unpopularity of the candidates …

Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  Indiana  —  Young Catches Up to Bayh for Senate; Trump Widens Lead for President  —  Democrat stays ahead in governor's race  —  West Long Branch, NJ - It no longer looks like Democrats can count on Indiana for an easy “plus one” …

NAACP Sues North Carolina Over Alleged Voter Purge Targeting Black Voters  —  The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, along with a handful of individual voters, sued the state's elections board and three county elections boards Monday over an alleged voter purge that it claims disproportionately affected African Americans.

Clinton's critics know she's guilty, they're just trying to decide what she's guilty of  —  The Prime Directive driving bad Clinton coverage.  —  The latest Hillary Clinton email revelations arose out of an unrelated investigation into Anthony Weiner's sexting.

Analysis: The Vengeful World of Donald Trump, and Why It Matters  —  Summarizing Donald Trump's worldview isn't easy, but this may come close: The world is a violent place, and it demands a violent response.  —  His campaign might seem like a storm emitting strikes of lightning …

Theaters Open Doors for an Election Worthy of the Big Screen  —  The dramatic presidential campaign of 2016 has often felt like something beyond even Hollywood's wildest imagination.  —  So it seems fitting that when this two-year slog toward Election Day finally comes to its conclusion on Nov. 8 …