Five women accuse journalist and ‘Game Change’ co-author Mark Halperin of sexual harassment  —  Veteran journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed women while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, according to five women who shared their previously undisclosed accounts with CNN and others …

Ben Sasse On Alabama Senate Race: “It Feels Like This Party That I'm A Part Of Has Gone Post-Constitutional”  —  An interesting bit from Jonah Goldberg's podcast, The Remnant.  Goldberg puts Sasse on the spot by asking whether he'll be following the lead of his libertarian-ish colleagues in the Senate …

What to Know About the Dossier of Trump Research and Who Paid for It  —  What is the dossier?  —  It is a 35-page collection of research memos written by Christopher Steele, a respected former British intelligence agent, primarily during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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-Linked Company Reached Out to WikiLeaks on Hacked Emails  —  Approach came from chief of data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica as Wikileaks was releasing emails related to Clinton  —  The chief executive of a data-analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump's campaign reached …

10-Year-Old Immigrant Is Detained After Agents Stop Her on Way to Surgery  —  A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been detained by federal immigration authorities in Texas after she passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint on her way to a hospital to undergo emergency gall bladder surgery.

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 …

Threats are preventing Frederica Wilson from voting in Washington  —  WASHINGTON  —  Congressional Democrats celebrated Rep. Frederica Wilson on Wednesday by wearing stickers adorned with a red cowboy hat and posing for a group picture on the steps of the Capitol.  —  But one notable person was missing: Wilson herself.

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.

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.

Reddit Is Removing Nazi And Alt-Right Groups As Part Of A New Policy And Some Users Are Confused  —  Reddit is purging Nazi, white supremacist, and other hate-based groups from its site as part of a new policy change announced Wednesday that targets and bans certain violent material.

Cory Booker, Lindsey Graham expected to testify at Menendez bribery trial  —  What to know about Sen. Menendez's trial  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Newark, New Jersey (CNN)A courtroom in New Jersey will briefly turn into a rare scene of bipartisan unity Thursday as Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham …

Who Knew Trump Would Be a Weak President?  —  He campaigned with a lot of swagger.  But his first nine months in office have been defined by indecision, vacillation, and a reluctance to call shots.  —  At his rallies, presidential candidate Donald Trump excited his most avid supporters through displays …

Trump associate Cohen sold four NY buildings for cash to mysterious buyers  —  WASHINGTON  —  Donald Trump's long time business lawyer Michael Cohen may be best known for his aggressive campaign television defenses of the real estate mogul, his role in an abortive effort to build a Trump Tower …

Culturally Appropriate This, Social Justice Jerks  —  Now the leftist scolds are trying to crash our Halloween party with a long list of instructions and commands we're expected to follow in order to PC-up our Samhain.  Most of this nonsense is couched in terms of forbidding “cultural appropriation …

Dems Demand Answers From Trump on Russia Sanctions Delay … The House Foreign Affairs Committee's Democratic members are demanding that President Donald Trump tell them why his administration has yet to issue guidance on how it will implement new sanctions against Russia.

How to Read the JFK Assassination Files  —  If President Trump is true to his word, the American public is about to be flooded with thousands of long-secret documents that could help resolve at least some of the conspiracy theories about a turning point in the nation's history - the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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 …

Cop accidentally tasers boy, 10, during gun safety lesson for kids  —  A Plantation police officer is being sent back to training after accidentally Tasering a child  —  Sun Sentinel  —  A Plantation police officer accidentally tasered a 10-year-old boy right after telling him and his brother …

Exclusive: Trump to declare public health emergency for opioids, a partial measure to fight drug epidemic  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will order his health secretary to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency Thursday — but will stop short of declaring a more sweeping state of national emergency, aides said.