Last Slide Next Slide  —  Two metro-area police officers were shot and killed in apparent “ambush style” attacks early Wednesday.  —  Police from Urbandale and Des Moines departments responded to a report of gunfire at the intersection of 70th Street and Aurora Avenue at about 1:06 a.m.

Cotton: Clinton Foundation one of world's largest money-laundering schemes  —  (R-Ark.) tore into the Clinton Foundation on Tuesday, comparing it to an illegal money-laundering operation.  —  Asked on Hugh Hewitt's radio show about a Wall Street Journal report that four FBI offices …

Post-ABC Tracking poll finds race tied, as Trump opens up an 8-point edge on honesty  —  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are tied in the new Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll which finds Trump now holds an edge on which candidate is honest and trustworthy.

White nationalists plot Election Day show of force  —  Neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin plans to muster thousands of poll-watchers across all 50 states.  His partners at the alt-right website “the Right Stuff” are touting plans to set up hidden cameras at polling places in Philadelphia and hand …

Florida poll: 28 percent of GOP early voters picked Clinton  —  More than a quarter of Republicans who have already voted in Florida cast their ballots for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton  —  , according to a new poll.  —  A TargetSmart/William & Mary poll released Tuesday showed 28 percent …

Video shows Trump with mob figure he denied knowing  —  A newly uncovered video appears to contradict Donald Trump's claim that he never knew a high-stakes gambler who was banned from New Jersey casinos for alleged ties to organized crime.  —  The reputed mob figure, Robert LiButti …

FBI investigating alleged donor scheme tied to Senate candidate  —  The FBI is investigating an alleged illegal donation scheme involving a wealthy Saudi family that supports Democratic Florida Senate candidate Patrick Murphy.  —  The Hill has found no evidence that Murphy himself was involved in, or even aware of, the alleged scheme.

After another release of documents, FBI finds itself caught in a partisan fray  —  The surprise tweet from a little-used FBI account came about 1 p.m. Tuesday, announcing that the agency had published on its website 129 pages of internal documents related to a years-old investigation …

Fake story about Obamas, Hillary Clinton ensnares Sean Hannity  —  Sean Hannity on Tuesday embraced a piece of fake news about President Obama deleting endorsements of Hillary Clinton from his Twitter account.  —  Hannity used the made-up news to claim that President Obama's legacy might be “jail.”

From Roe to Trump  —  On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a 7-2 majority, discovered a sweeping constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy and struck down abortion laws across the country.  Within five years, the number of abortions in America annually climbed above a million …

Hillary Clinton Shares Her Secrets for Not Letting Donald Trump ‘In Her Head’  —  Hillary Clinton is nothing if not prepared.  And part of her preparation for the three presidential debates this year involved anticipating the actions of her “aggressive” and unpredictable opponent — and mastering her “listening woman” face.

If Dems will rig a debate for Clinton, what won't they do to win?  —  No matter what the election outcome next week, the media will be big losers.  This campaign season has seen much of the media rip off their veneer of objectivity, too often acting instead as an unofficial campaign arm working to elect Hillary Clinton

The Rich and Us  —  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, having a net worth of $81.8 billion, and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, having a net worth of $70.4 billion, are the nation's two richest men.  They are at the top of the Forbes 400 list of America's superrich individuals, people who have net worths of billions of dollars.

Johnson: Clinton could be impeached  —  BELOIT — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Monday he believes Hillary Clinton's actions with her private email server are impeachable offenses should she be elected president.  —  “She purposefully circumvented it (the law), this was willful concealment and destruction …

Trump, Waking a ‘Sleeping Giant,’ Helps Clinton Build an Unlikely Firewall  —  CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — Since moving to Arizona 15 years ago, Nieves Lorenzo watched as Hispanics grew in numbers but only haltingly asserted themselves as a political force.  Then came Donald J. Trump's presidential candidacy.

Hillary's Male Tormentors  —  Weiner or no Weiner, Hillary Clinton is likely to be our next president.  —  But she can't seem to escape insatiable men.  —  She married one — for better, for “bimbo eruptions,” for two terms in the White House, for impeachment.

U.S. militia girds for trouble as presidential election nears  —  Down a Georgia country road, camouflaged members of the Three Percent Security Force have mobilized for rifle practice, hand-to-hand combat training — and an impromptu campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Clinton Narrowly Beats Trump With Independents in Bloomberg Poll  —  The Democrat has a four-point advantage in a head-to-head matchup.  —  McCormickJohn  —  Hillary Clinton holds a slim advantage with independents, a group Republican Mitt Romney won by five percentage points in 2012 …

In the Nevada desert, Bundy family warns of another standoff  —  BUNKERVILLE, Nev. — Less than a week after being acquitted for his role in last winter's armed occupation of an Oregon federal wildlife refuge, Nevada rancher Ryan Bundy said another protest action will be justified …

Parents of Ezell Ford, who was fatally shot by LAPD officers, settle lawsuit with city  —  Ezell Ford's mother, Tritobia Ford, speaks at a 2015 news conference calling for prosecutors to charge two officers in connection with her son's death.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Black Turnout Falls in Early Voting, Boding Ill for Hillary Clinton  —  African-Americans are failing to vote at the robust levels they did four years ago in several states that could help decide the presidential election, creating a vexing problem for Hillary Clinton as she clings …

Nephew: George W. Bush may vote for Clinton  —  George P. Bush said Tuesday that his uncle, former President George W. Bush, may join his grandfather George H.W. Bush in casting his ballots for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, according to the Associated Press.