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Trump and Clinton are ‘catastrophic,’ says Iran’s supreme leader
Almost 37 years to the day that radical students overran the U.S. Embassy in Iran, the Islamic republic’s supreme leader sat with students and delivered a blistering tirade against American society, politics and foreign policy. He reserved special condemnation for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and said this year’s election was a symptom of America’s decline.
Libertarian Party VP nominee Bill Weld basically just endorsed Hillary Clinton
He didn’t say it directly, but the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential nominee, former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, for all intents and purposes endorsed Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night. In an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Weld, a former Republican, said he was “vouching” for Clinton and praised her effusively while arguing that the choice between the two major candidates is clear — all while not really vouching for the top of his own ticket, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson.
Trump attacks Clinton over email; she condemns his treatment of women
Hillary Clinton and her allies on Tuesday intensified their attacks on Donald Trump’s character and temperament, as they sought to shift scrutiny away from news that the FBI had revived an investigation into her email practices at the State Department.
FBI in thick of political fray
For the second time in five days, the FBI had moved exactly to the place the nation’s chief law enforcement agency usually strives to avoid: smack in the middle of partisan fighting over a national election, just days before the vote.
Feds on alert for voter fraud in Eastern Washington
Eastern Washington residents with actual information about voter fraud are encouraged to report it.
Got info about voter fraud? Call federal office
Eastern Washington residents with information about actual voter fraud are encouraged to report it.
102-year-old Arizona woman casts early vote for Clinton
A 102-year-old Prescott, Arizona, woman born before women gained the right to vote in America has cast her ballot early and voted for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Legal experts: It’d take a bombshell for FBI to charge Clinton in email case
Even if FBI agents discover classified information on a newly seized laptop, Hillary Clinton is unlikely to face criminal charges, according to legal experts and former federal prosecutors.
Trump campaign says it’s questioning pollster’s bill, not denying payment
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Tuesday that it is not refusing to pay a $767,000 bill from pollster Tony Fabrizio, but rather is questioning the amount and reviewing the charges to make sure they are accurate.
Variety magazine backs Clinton in its first presidential endorsement
Hillary Clinton can add another publication to her long list of endorsements. Variety has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate, marking the first time the entertainment trade magazine has made a presidential endorsement in its 111-year history.
New email discovery raises question: Why didn’t Abedin know?
The discovery of another cache of emails potentially important to the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email practices raises an immediate question: How could close Clinton adviser Huma Abedin have been unaware of their existence?
Washington ballots top 1 million
Washington voters have sent back more than 1 million ballots. In Spokane County, the trend is slightly behind 2012, and way off from 2008
Trump used ‘legally dubious’ maneuver on taxes, new report says
At a time when Donald Trump’s casinos were bleeding money and he was badly in debt, the Republican presidential nominee used a “legally dubious” accounting maneuver to avoid reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in income, according to a New York Times report Monday. In the early 1990s, Trump convinced financial backers to forgive large debts he could not repay, the paper wrote. But he avoided having to report the canceled debts as income because he gave the backers equity in his partnerships that owned the casinos, effectively writing off the income.
Clinton aides rip ‘double standard’ as Justice Department vows quick action
WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton’s campaign accused FBI Director James Comey of applying a double standard by disclosing a renewed inquiry into her emails, an hour after the Justice Department offered a bare-bones promise to lawmakers that it would act “expeditiously” to settle the matter. Clinton campaign officials seized on a CNBC report, citing an unnamed former FBI official, that Comey balked at joining with U.S. intelligence agencies Oct. 7 when they blamed Russia for hacking the email systems of U.S. political figures and organizations – including the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s campaign chairman – because it was too close to Election Day.
Emergency hearing scheduled in North Carolina voter case
An emergency hearing has been scheduled in federal court on the NAACP’s attempt to stop several county boards of election in North Carolina from removing people from the voter rolls through challenges filed by individuals.
CNN accepts contributor Brazile’s resignation
CNN says it is “completely uncomfortable” to learn through WikiLeaks that former commentator Donna Brazile had contacted the Clinton campaign ahead of time about a question that would be posed during a presidential primary town hall last March in Flint, Michigan.
Clinton says FBI has “no case” on email investigation
Donald Trump intensified his attacks on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server on Monday, as she tried to move past the discovery of new emails and shift the election back to a referendum on the Trump’s fitness for office.
With Clinton on defense, Trump campaigns in blue states
Newly emboldened, Donald Trump is campaigning in traditionally Democratic states after the recent discovery of more emails that may be relevant to the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private system.
Trump refusing to pay campaign pollster $767,000
Donald Trump’s hiring of pollster Tony Fabrizio in May was viewed as a sign that the real estate mogul was finally bringing seasoned operatives into his insurgent operation. The Trump campaign’s latest Federal Election Commission report shows that it is disputing nearly $767,000 that Fabrizio’s firm says it is still owed for polling.
Clinton seeks to use new FBI inquiry as galvanizing force
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Even before FBI Director James Comey jolted the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton and her advisers were on edge. Never mind that preference polls had Clinton ahead of Republican Donald Trump nationally and in nearly every battleground state. Or that Democrats in Washington were starting to actively prepare for a Clinton presidency, speculating about top Cabinet nominees and next year’s White House agenda.