Second Woman: George H.W. Bush Groped Me  —  Earlier this week, actress Heather Lind said in a now-deleted Instagram post that former president George H.W. Bush had sexually assaulted her.  “He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side,” she wrote.

Trump Data Guru: I Tried to Team Up With Julian Assange … Alexander Nix, who heads a controversial data analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump's campaign, wrote in an email last year that he reached out to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about Hillary Clinton's missing 33,000 emails.

Key Russia Probe Splinters as Grassley, Feinstein Set Own Paths  —  Judiciary chairman, top Democrat launch separate inquiries  —  Grassley looking into Hillary Clinton emails, uranium case  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee's bipartisan Russia probe has fractured, with Chairman Chuck Grassley …

Fox News Poll: Storms erode Trump's ratings  —  Was it the tweet storms or the hurricanes?  Something hit President Trump's numbers.  His personal ratings have deteriorated and his job approval has hit a low.  —  Thirty-eight percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing in a new Fox News poll, down from 42 percent last month.

McConnell allies declare open warfare on Bannon  —  Allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared open warfare on Wednesday against Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and leader of an insurrection aimed at defeating mainstream GOP candidates in next year's midterm elections.

House GOP tax leader threatens to break Trump's promise not to change 401(k) rules  —  House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady on Wednesday suggested a tax bill he is preparing to introduce could force changes to 401(k) plans and other retirement accounts, potentially bucking …

‘I Was Blind And Complicit And Just, Like, Did Nothing’: New Republic Staffers Speak Out  —  The magazine's literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, is accused of harassment and inappropriate behavior.  —  WASHINGTON Soon after the long-whispered allegations concerning Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein came …

Trump: ‘I went to an Ivy league college’  —  President Trump on Wednesday cited his Ivy League education in pushing back at the notion that he is an uncivil leader.  —  “You know people don't understand, I went to an Ivy League college,” he told reporters at the White House.  “I was a nice student.

YouTube Trumpkin and Former Milo Intern Kills His Own Dad for Calling Him a Nazi … Something had set Lane Davis off, but that wasn't unusual.  —  It was a clear summer afternoon on July 14, on Samish Island—a small, idyllic community off the northwest coast of Washington state—where Lane …

Pitched as Calming Force, John Kelly Instead Mirrors Boss's Priorities  —  WASHINGTON — Last summer, the Trump administration debated lowering the annual cap on refugees admitted to the United States.  Should it stay at 110,000, be cut to 50,000 or fall somewhere in between?  John F. Kelly offered his opinion.

Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive  —  A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed …

Kellogg's to replace racially insensitive Corn Pops boxes following Twitter call out  —  Kellogg's will be redesigning Corn Pops cereal boxes after a complaint about racially insensitive art on the packaging.  —  The Battle Creek, Mich.-based cereal and snack maker said on Twitter Wednesday …

FBI informant in Obama-era Russian nuclear bribery cleared to testify before Congress  —  The Justice Department on Wednesday night released a former FBI informant from a confidentiality agreement, allowing him to testify before Congress about what he witnessed undercover …

Why Joe Biden Didn't Run . . . And Why He's Not Ruling Out 2020  —  In a cruel twist, Joe Biden's planned 2016 presidential campaign was upended by the death of its foremost booster, his 46-year-old son, Beau, from brain cancer.  Will the former vice president make a run in 2020?

Progressive, “Fair Wage” Pizza Shop Closing Its Doors  —  In the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston back in 2015, the people at the nonprofit organization Haley House came up with a novel idea.  They would open a pizza shop based on the principles of economic justice and fair wages to support the community.

Record-High Support for Legalizing Marijuana Use in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to warm to legalizing marijuana, with 64% now saying its use should be made legal.  This is the highest level of public support Gallup has found for the proposal in nearly a half-century of measurement.

Hey, I Can Play This Game Too, Guys  —  I have a confession to make.  I'm black.  —  I'm a black guy with black parents and black relatives and even some black friends.  I also work at Morgan State, a historically black university.  And since we're keeping it 100, I'm the political editor at The Root …

San Juan mayor calls for canceling ‘alarming’ contract for Puerto Rican power repairs … WASHINGTON — A $300 million contract to fix Puerto Rico's hurricane-damaged power grid that was given to a tiny Montana company should be voided, said San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz …

Black customer terrified by locksmith's racist text message  —  SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WJBK) - A Southfield woman in need of a locksmith was shocked after getting a glimpse of a text conversation the worker had about her.  —  The message may have been a joke but that woman was not laughing - instead she was pretty shaken up.

Reddit Is Removing Nazi And Alt-Right Groups As Part Of A New Policy And Some Users Are Confused  —  “The front page of the internet” is removing violent and hateful material — Nazi and alt-right groups were some of the first to go.  —  Reddit is purging Nazi, white supremacist …

NAACP Issues National Travel Advisory for American Airlines  —  Calls for Meeting with Airlines to Discuss Troublesome Issues  —  (October 24, 2017) - The NAACP, the nation's original and largest social justice advocacy organization, has released the following statement today announcing …

US ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown faced complaints over ‘cultural misunderstanding’  —  U.S Ambassador Scott Brown explains his conduct during a Peace Corps function in Samoa.  —  US Ambassador Scott Brown has fronted over mounting “innuendo and rumour” about a State Department investigation into his behaviour.