SNL: Benedict Cumberbatch Hosts, Solange Performs

Vladimir Putin stands arm-in-arm with Donald Trump on the Nov. 5, 2016 episode of Saturday Night Live. In its final episode of the 2016 presidential election campaign cycle, Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon and special guest Alec Baldwin came together for one last cold-open face-off as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Comey considered a ‘bad choice’ for FBI post by Clinton aide

A senior aide to Hillary Clinton privately dismissed FBI Director James Comey as "a bad choice" in October 2015, according to newly released emails from WikiLeaks. The blunt assessment foreshadowed the dramatic tension that has escalated between Comey and the Democratic presidential candidate in the final days before the election.

When evangelical clergies oppose Trump, their flocks listen. But theya re not speaking up.

Although Donald Trump is doing less well among evangelicals than George W. Bush, John McCain or Mitt Romney did, analysts have suggested that many evangelicals support the Republican nominee because of long-standing "culture war" issues such as abortion and gay rights. Trump has said he is antiabortion and promised to appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court, so evangelicals are willing to set aside concerns about his moral character.

Melania Trump vows to take on cyberbullying as first lady

Donald Trump's wife, Melania, made a rare appearance on the campaign trail on Thursday, pledging to focus on combatting online bullying and serve as an advocate for women and children if her husband is elected to the White House. Her description of the perils of social media seemed at odds with her husband's divisive and bullying rhetoric throughout the campaign.

Clinton plots final push as race tightens

Hillary Clinton saturated the airwaves and deployed star surrogates to battleground states Thursday, looking to snuff-out an eleventh-hour insurgency that has put Donald Trump at the gates of the White House. [WASHINGTON] Hillary Clinton saturated the airwaves and deployed star surrogates to battleground states Thursday, looking to snuff-out an eleventh-hour insurgency that has put Donald Trump at the gates of the White House.

Melania Trump pledges to combat cyber-bullying as first lady

Melanie Trump, husband of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, walks on stage to deliver a speech at the Main Line Sports Center in Berwyn, Pa., Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. In her first solo speech since the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump on Thursday called for an end to online bullying of children and teenagers, saying, it is "absolutely unacceptable when it's done with no name hiding on the internet."

VIDEO: Bill Weld a Shining Example of Why the Libertarian Party Is a Joke

If there is anyone who can claim the title of "Biggest Loser" this year, it's the Libertarian Party. While libertarianism in general has several excellent ideas for limiting the size and scope of government and expanding freedom and liberty, the candidates they regularly put forward are political jokes who are little more than advocates for abortion and legalizing drugs.

Pro-Trump super PAC deploying $10 million in new TV ads

Donald Trump is getting a $10 million advertising boost from a super PAC attacking Hillary Clinton as too scandal-plagued for the White House. With this late ad buy, Future 45 and a companion nonprofit group are now the top big-money helper to the Republican presidential nominee.

With election looming, Hollywood votes for escapism

In this image released by Sony Pictures, from left, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon from the film, "Ghostbusters." Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump helped fuel the backlash against Paul Feig's female-led "Ghostbuster" remake, voicing his disgust for the gender switch on Instagram.

Barack Obama and the search for identity

In the penultimate episode of the Presidential podcast , we examine Barack Obama's search for identity and how that quest has paralleled America's own complex reckoning with race. "Trying to figure out his identity was really the story of his young life," says Washington Post journalist David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama: The Story .

Comey in harsh spotlight of 2016 campaign

James Comey's revelation Friday that the bureau is reviewing newly discovered emails that might be linked to Hillary Clinton's private server made the FBI director's unusual actions the focus on Sunday news programs and on the campaign trail. The new emails were found weeks ago, law enforcement officials told CNN Sunday.

Email scandal: Brave-faced Hillary Clinton vows to ‘get back up’ as Donald Trump benefits from storm

Washington: As it emerged that FBI investigators had been sitting silently, for the best part of a month, on the latest explosive trove of Clinton emails , the Democratic candidate and Donald Trump took markedly different approaches to the elephant in the room - she stepped around it; he lassoed it and hauled it onto centre stage. Despite strident demands for more information from Democrats and the GOP, beleaguered FBI director James Comey remained silent through the weekend - letting his 166-word letter to Congress on Friday stand as the only justification for a rare FBI political intervention that has most analysts qualifying what had been their near-certain predictions that Clinton had the election in the bag.

Melania Trump to give speech in suburban Philadelphia

It will be Melania's first public speech since the Republican National Convention, where she was criticized for cribbing portions of first lady Michelle Obama Melania Trump to give speech in suburban Philadelphia Michelle Obama to attend ceremony for new Navy submarine Clinton to campaign in Arizona days before election MORE Melania rarely appears on the campaign trail, choosing instead to stay in New York City and care for the couple's 10-year-old son. "She's amazing when she speaks.

So Far, Sexting, Groping Is 2016’s ‘October Surprise’

U.S. presidential campaigns are never predictable, although the number of late-breaking, surprise developments in the 2016 campaign may set the mark. A historical look at what politicos like to refer to as an "October Surprise" - an unpredictable development that roils the White House race and comes days or weeks, or even earlier than October, before people vote.