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.

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 …

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.

Obama Criticizes F.B.I. Director: 'We Don't Operate on Incomplete Information'  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama criticized the decision by his F.B.I. director to alert Congress on Friday about the discovery of new emails related to the Hillary Clinton server case, implying …

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.

Justice Department official gave Clinton camp ‘heads up’ about testimony  —  A Justice Department official with close ties to Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta sent him a “heads up” last year to warn that lawmakers might question witnesses about the presidential candidate's private emails …

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 …

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 …

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!

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 …

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 …

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 …

Jon Stewart tears into Trump at NY event  —  It's possible Jon Stewart misses his old job — or at least the part where he got to make fun of Donald Trump  —  The former “Daily Show” host repeatedly mocked the GOP presidential nominee at a Tuesday event, specifically scoffing at his claims …

For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT  —  Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and growth of economic activity has picked up from the modest pace seen in the first half of this year.

Early Voting a Poor Predictor of Final Results  —  As we wind down this election, we begin to hear the familiar chime: The election is over and/or can be predicted because of what we see in the early vote.  Don't buy it.  While we might be able to make some broad projections based upon early voting …

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.

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 …