WHAT HILLARY STAFFERS KNEW...AND WHEN THEY KNEW IT … Weiner was at home with their son Jordan, tweeting non-stop, and with little real work beyond occasional media appearances.  At one point in the summer of 2015 he took up a job with a PR firm.  It ended when some of the partners left in disgust.

Trump teen rape accuser abruptly calls off news conference  —  LOS ANGELES—A woman who has filed federal lawsuits accusing Donald Trump of repeatedly raping her two decades ago, when she was 13, abruptly canceled a news conference Wednesday where she was to detail her extraordinary claims against the GOP presidential nominee.

WATCH LIVE: Greenville officials address church burning, vandalism  —  GREENVILLE, MS (Mississippi News Now) -  —  Tuesday night after 11 p.m. authorities responded to a call about a church burning in Greenville.  —  A local black church, Hopewell M.B. Church, was not only burned …

Obama Faults F.B.I. on Emails, Citing ‘Incomplete Information’  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — President Obama threw the power of the White House behind Hillary Clinton on Wednesday.  He faulted how the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, handled new emails related to the investigation …

Secret Recordings Fueled FBI Feud in Clinton Probe  —  Agents thought they had enough material to merit aggressively pursuing investigation into Clinton Foundation  —  Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted …

A hard peace  —  After four years of litigation funded by a billionaire with a grudge going back even further, a settlement has been reached.  The saga is over.  —  As the most unpalatable part of the deal, three true stories—about Hulk Hogan, the claim by Shiva Ayyadurai that he invented email …

Scott Michael Greene was convicted in combative 2014 encounters … Scott Michael Greene, the 46-year-old suspect in the killings of two police officers early Wednesday, apparently had previous encounters with Urbandale police officers, according to court records about a man with the same name and date of birth as the suspect.

Schumer Says He Lost Confidence in FBI's Comey Over E-Mail Probe  —  Senate Democrats' next leader once defended FBI director  —  Comey's disclosure could affect outcome of Senate elections  —  Senate Democratic leader-in-waiting Chuck Schumer said Wednesday he's lost confidence …

Bookmaker: Nearly all election bets coming in are on Trump  —  A major gambling website says nearly all wagers on the presidential election in the last 48 hours have been on Donald Trump  —  to win.  —  Irish bookmaker Paddy Power on Tuesday said 91 percent of bets on the election …

Alabama Secretary of State: Helping More People Vote Would “Cheapen the Work” of Civil Rights Heroes  —  Automatic voter registration has recently emerged a key tool in increasing the United States' anemic voter turnout.  The process is simple: Whenever an eligible citizen interacts with a government agency …

TRENDING: Universities work to purge male students of their ‘toxic’ masculinity  —  VIDEO: Undoing a legacy of ‘harm, oppression and dominance’  —  Universities across the nation are taking steps to actively purge male students of what's been labeled “toxic masculinity.”

Poll gives Clinton wide lead in Florida, with strong GOP support  —  WASHINGTON  —  Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoys an eight-point lead over Donald Trump in Florida, a key presidential battleground, according to a new survey, and that's due in no small part to significant crossover support from 28 percent of early voting Republicans.

Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  Pennsylvania  —  Clinton Has Smaller Lead; McGinty Ahead in Senate Race  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Hillary Clinton maintains the lead in Pennsylvania, although by a smaller margin than one month ago.  The Monmouth University Poll finds she currently …

Oklahoma legislator references Clinton's execution in Facebook post  —  SALLISAW — State Rep. John Bennett, a Sallisaw Republican seeking re-election next week, appeared to call for the execution of Hillary Clinton in a recent Facebook post.  —  Bennett wrote, “2 words ... firing squad,” …

Cuban: 'I'd rather lose every penny than have Trump as president'  —  Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said on Wednesday that he is more concerned about the possibility of a Donald Trump  —  presidency than he is at the prospect of his team losing fans over his support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton

Kelly Ayotte: 'I wouldn't want my daughter in the room' with Trump or Bill Clinton  —  (CNN)Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who is seeking reelection in New Hampshire, said in a radio interview Wednesday that she would not want her daughter in a room with Donald Trump or Bill Clinton, but added that “this isn't about my daughter.”

The New York Times Invents a Narrative on Comey  —  The reincarnation of J. Edgar Hoover?  —  We mastodons who still receive our daily dose of New York Times when the dead-tree version lands on our doorsteps with a dull thud got a special treat Tuesday, a textbook case of the way …

The Conservative Case for Voting for Clinton  —  If the polls are correct, many disaffected Republicans are making their peace with Donald Trump in the final hours of the 2016 campaign.  The usual term for this process is “returning home.”  This time, we need a new phrase.

Federal judge wants GOP to hand over info on poll watchers  —  CNN polls: Clinton, Trump fight for battleground states  — A federal judge has ordered the RNC to provide information detailing “any efforts regarding poll watching or poll observation”  —  Washington (CNN)For Donald Trump …

Republican Sen. Jeff Flake Says He Might Write In Evan McMullin  —  Having ruled out Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Republican Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake said he might vote for independent candidate Evan McMullin for president.  —  “That's a possibility,” he told ABC's Jon Karl and Rick Klein during …

Donald Trump Voters, Just Hear Me Out  —  This is my last column until after the election, so I'd like to address the people least likely to read it: Donald Trump voters.  Who knows?  Maybe I'll get lucky and a few of them will buy fish wrapped in this column, and they'll accidentally peruse it!

New CNN / ORC polls suggest new strength for Trump, Clinton rise in Florida  —  Washington (CNN)Both the Clinton and Trump campaigns have hit the ground hard in Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Pennsylvania, and new CNN/ORC polls across the four states paint a picture of a tight race to the finish in critical battlegrounds.