Trump Eyeing Clinton’s Midwest Bedrock for Last-Stretch Pickups

Donald Trump will make a surprise visit to traditionally blue Minnesota on Sunday while Hillary Clinton has added an extra stop in Michigan to her agenda, as the two candidates seek to shore up their positions and weaken one another's strongholds in the closing stretch of a tight and bitter U.S. presidential campaign. The Republican nominee, a New York real estate developer who's waged a controversial outsider bid for the White House, told supporters in Florida on Saturday that he is "going to Minnesota," and swapped a Twin Cities appearance for a previously announced Wisconsin event.

Clinton Leads Trump by 3 Points in POLITICO/Morning Consult Poll

Trump viewed very or somewhat favorably by 37%, with 61% holding an unfavorable opinion, including 51% who view him very unfavorably Trump leads by a single point among male voters, 44% to 43%; Clinton has a 6-point lead among women, 47% to 41% Trump has a 10-point lead among white voters at 49% to 39%; Clinton leads among black voters with 80% to 11%; and Hispanic voters at 61% to 27% Poll surveyed 1,482 likely voters; conducted on Friday and Saturday with margin of error of +/- 3ppts; 39% percent of likely voters self-identified as Democrats, 33% as Republicans and 28% as independents

U.N.’s annual climate conference kicks off under shadow of U.S. election

International negotiators are coming together on Monday in Marrakech, Morocco, for the most highly anticipated climate gathering of the year. But they'll spend the first couple of days doing exactly the same thing as the rest of the world: holding their breath as they nervously watch to see how the U.S. presidential election turns out.

EDITORIAL: Republican tolerance of Sid Miller is evidence of declining American values

For all those voters out there confident in their decisions as they stroll into local polling places, we offer no further evidence of how mistaken many of these same voters have been in the past than Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. It's easy for some Republicans to laugh him off as GOP comedy relief, but a lot of folks in the agricultural industry haven't been laughing since GOP primary voters in 2014 bypassed two eminently qualified Republican candidates and instead chose this rodeo cowboy to oversee our state's farming and ranching sectors.

Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg View: Trump’s rise signifies slow decay…

After Yale University economist Robert Shiller this week signed a letter supporting Hillary Clinton, he explained that he normally doesn't engage in politics, but that "the destruction that Trump's campaign tactics have done to the institutions of this nation is a great moral issue." Morality and politics are complicated, even for Nobel Prize winners from the Ivy League.

David Oualaalou, Board of Contributors: Americans neglect foreign policy at their peril

Among tragic failures of the 2016 presidential campaign is the fact that, amidst talk lately of sabotaged emails, sex banter, Clinton Foundation conflicts of interest and empty Trump philanthropic gestures, serious discussion of foreign-policy issues facing the United States is trivialized if raised at all. No wonder.

Trump vs. Clinton Battle Turning Heads in China

There have been no official Chinese polls to help tease out what the world's most populous nation thinks of the American presidential election. That doesn't mean people in this rising world power and U.S. rival aren't watching the tumultuous race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump - they are.

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.

Clinton amnesty plan would cost taxpayers $1.2 trillion

Hillary Clinton's plan to bring 11 million illegal aliens "out of the shadows" would cost American households an immediate tax increase of $1.2 trillion, or $15,000 per household, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences. In examining the study, the Heritage Foundation found that the immediate tax increases would be imposed to pay for the infrastructure, school, welfare and other costs of illegals.

Giuliani, Sanders help with final push for swing-state votes in Las Vegas

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks to supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Trump/Pence headquarters in Las Vegas Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. Top-level campaign surrogates were dispatched to Las Vegas today while Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were busy campaigning in the Midwest and on the East Coast, shoring up swing-state votes two days before Election Day.

More states appear to be in play as presidential race moves to final stretch

With hours until Election Day, the wildest U.S. presidential race in memory has grown more competitive in most of the battleground states, although Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton continues to hold a broader path to victory than Republican Donald Trump. The political map suggests that Clinton can lose several key states long assumed to be in her column and still reach the 270 electoral votes she needs to win.