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 …

Five days to go: The presidential race tightens - CBS/NYT poll  —  Where the Race Stands  —  The race for president has tightened since mid-October: Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump by three points nationally.  Just over two weeks ago, after the second debate and amid accusations …

British court delivers blow to E.U. exit plan, insists Parliament has a say  —  LONDON — A senior British court on Thursday dealt a severe blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to begin the process of exiting the European Union early next year, ruling she must get Parliament's approval before she acts.

Ex-KKK leader David Duke gets into shouting match at debate, says Hillary Clinton ‘should be getting the electric chair’  —  Candidates vying for a Louisiana US Senate seat met on the debate stage in New Orleans on Wednesday night.  —  Among the candidates — which included Republican …

Donald Trump Is Accused Of Raping A 13-Year-Old.  Why Haven't The Media Covered It?  —  There are two big reasons.  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  If you've been anywhere near Facebook or Twitter in the past several months, you're probably aware that there is a case working …

Casting notice goes out for new ‘up-and-coming’ conservative news network  —  Donald Trump denies he is interested in launching a new conservative news venture, but somebody sure is.  —  What's being billed as an “up-and-coming conservative media network currently in development” …

Poll: ‘Shy Trump’ voters are a mirage  —  Donald Trump has insisted for months that polls are failing to capture the breadth of his support because some of his backers won't admit it to a pollster over the telephone.  —  He's wrong.  —  According to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult study conducted …

Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE) … In a John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday courtesy of Dartmouth Films, whistleblower Julian Assange categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party …

WBUR Poll: Trump Edges Ahead Of Clinton In N.H.  —  A new WBUR poll of likely voters in New Hampshire finds that Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are now in a dead heat with just five days to go before Election Day.  —  The survey also finds Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte leading …

Cruz to hit campaign trail for Trump  —  will appear with Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence  —  at two events Thursday, his first appearance on the campaign trail for Donald Trump  —  Pence's spokesman, Marc Lotter, confirmed reports of the joint appearance on Twitter Thursday afternoon …

Is Clinton Slipping?  —  There are more signs of erosion, but her floodgates appear to be holding  —  Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley, UVA Center for Politics November 3rd, 2016  —  Hillary Clinton has picked an awful time to hit one of the rough patches that has plagued her throughout the campaign.

And Now For Some Comic Relief  —  Presenting...the Clinton IT Department!  —  This has not been an especially ennobling election.  Or a rewarding one.  Or even entertaining.  Pretty much everything about 2016 has been boorish and grotesque.  But finally it is time to laugh.

Chicago Cubs win World Series championship with 8-7 victory over Cleveland Indians  —  Photos from Game 7 of the World Series at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 2, 2016.  —  Chicago Tribune  —  Finally.  —  The most epic drought in sports history is over, and the Cubs are world champions.

Uninsured Rate At All-Time Low  —  Thanks, Obamacare: More than 90 percent of Americans have health insurance.  —  WASHINGTON The share of Americans who don't have health coverage fell below 9 percent during the first half of this year, the lowest percentage ever recorded …

How Trump Pushed Millennials Out of the Republican Party  —  MIAMI—Enrique Sepulveda, an ebullient second-year student at the kaleidoscopically diverse Miami Dade College here, usually thinks of himself as a Republican.  But whenever Donald Trump says he plans to “make America great again …

Trump Is an Existential Threat  —  There are only a handful of days until Election Day and an end to this phase of a nation's — and the world's — ebb and flow of anxiety.  The day after the votes are cast and counted that anxiety will either dissipate or become a fixed feature.

EmailGate Has Destroyed Clinton, Inc.  —  No matter what happens on November 8, Hillary's email antics have irreversibly sabotaged a political dynasty  —  With our presidential election less than a week away, Hillary Clinton is playing defense, blaming everyone but herself for the political disaster that is enveloping her campaign.

Police say woman sent text messages and images while she smothered children, killing one  —  Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough, left, and McKeesport police Chief Bryan Washowich speak at a news conference Wednesday at the county police headquarters in Homewood …

A Trump Tower Goes Bust in Canada  —  The 65-story Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto has all the glitz and ambition of the luxury-brand businessman with his name in giant letters near its spire.  It's the tallest residential skyscraper in Canada, and probably the fanciest.

McConnell gives strongest statement yet in favor of Trump  —  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made his strongest statement yet on his party's presidential nominee, telling a rally in his home state Wednesday that “we need a new president, Donald Trump, to be the most powerful Republican in America.”

The Election Polls That Matter  —  With just days left in the 2016 presidential election, Americans are wondering if polling is accurate or if we'll see a Brexit-style shock.  —  It's not just voters who ask these types of questions.  On the eve of Election Day in 2012 …