The Lid: How to Watch Tonight’s Commander-in-Chief Forum

Tonight's the night! Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will each face questions on national security, military affairs and veterans' issues during tonight's Commander-in-Chief forum, presented by NBC News and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and simulcast on MSNBC and NBC. Veterans in the audience, as well as moderator Matt Lauer, will press both candidates to make their case to serve as the leader of the United States and its armed forces.

How Trump could win the general election

The Republican nominee is rebounding from a summer of repeated stumbles that threatened to undermine his candidacy, underscoring his ability to claw his way back and stay competitive despite controversies that would sink any other politician. Trump and Hillary Clinton enter the critical post-Labor Day phase of the campaign in a dead heat.

Clinton blasts Russia, Trump softens immigration stance

Setting the stage on Labor Day for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign, Donald Trump softened his stance on immigration while Hillary Clinton blasted Russia for its suspected tampering in the U.S. electoral process. In a rare news conference aboard her new campaign plane, Clinton said she is concerned about "credible reports about Russian government interference in our elections."

Clinton says ‘conspiracy theories’ about her health not a concern

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, on Monday said that she was not distracted by rumors of ill health and that attacks on the Clinton Foundation were not rooted in fact. WASHINGTON Phyllis Schlafly, who became a "founding mother" of the modern U.S. conservative movement by battling feminists in the 1970s and working tirelessly to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment, died on Monday at the age of 92, her Eagle Forum group said.

Trump and Clinton gear up for a busy Labor Day of campaigning

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, greets the crew before boarding her new Boeing 737 campaign plane Monday at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. Clinton, who has not held a news conference since last year, will kick off the holiday by finally allowing her press corps onto her campaign plane for the first time this election cycle. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, greets the crew before boarding her new Boeing 737 campaign plane Monday at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. Clinton, who has not held a news conference since last year, will kick off the holiday by finally allowing her press corps onto her campaign plane for the first time this election cycle.

Clinton and Trump courting Ohio voters on Labor Day

In this Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix. Trump and Hillary Clinton are making competing Labor Day pitches in Ohio, setting the stage for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign.

Clinton tells FBI she could not recall all briefings on preserving documents

Hillary Clinton, under questioning by federal investigators over whether she had been briefed on how to preserve government records as she was about to leave the State Department, said she had suffered a concussion, was working part-time and could not recall every briefing she received. Clinton, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, raised the health scare during her 3-1/2-hour interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department prosecutors on July 2, according to an FBI summary released on Friday.

Veterans Affairs restates policy banning Confederate flags

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has restated a policy that bans the raising of Confederate flags on permanent poles in federal cemeteries, affecting dozens of burial grounds across the nation - especially in the Deep South - and further contributing to the slow death of the 19th century symbols in modern American life.

Charity watchdog gives Clinton Foundation high marks

A charity watchdog with an ongoing relationship with the Clinton Foundation gave the former first family's nonprofit high marks Thursday, after an evaluation prompted by the heightened interest in the organization. The Clinton Foundation received four out of four stars - the highest rating that Charity Navigator gives after a close look at a charity's finances.

Michel Temer inherits the presidency of a shaken, divided Brazil

The permanent ouster of deeply unpopular President Dilma Rousseff by Brazil's Senate means that a man who is arguably just as unpopular is now faced with trying to ease the wounds of a divided nation mired in recession. Long known as an uncharismatic backroom wheeler-dealer, Michel Temer inherits a shrinking economy, a Zika virus outbreak that has ravaged poor northeastern states and political instability fed by a sprawling corruption probe that has tarred much of the country's political and business elite-himself included.

The Latest: Polls now closed in Arizona’s primary election

In this Monday, May 30, 2016, file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, looks on during a Phoenix Memorial Day Ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix. A challenge to longtime U.S. Sen. McCain leads the lists of contests drawing attention in Tuesday's Arizona primary election.

Judge: Citizens United must disclose donor information to NY

A nonprofit conservative organization advocating for less government must reveal information about major donors to the state's attorney general if it wants to solicit money in the state, a judge ruled Monday as he rejected First Amendment claims. U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein said that states have a strong interest to ensure that charities do not serve as fronts for fraud and crime and the lawsuit by the conservative organization, Citizens United, failed to show that the requirement "lacks a substantial relation to these important governmental interests."