Trump campaigner admits ‘we are behind’

Donald Trump's campaign manager has admitted the Republican presidential candidate is lagging behind Democrat Hillary Clinton with only two weeks to go before election day. Clinton had "tremendous advantages," Conway said, with her husband and previous president Bill Clinton, current president Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden all campaigning for her, and "all much more popular than she can hope to be."

Hacked trove shows Clinton aides suggesting email jokes

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves at reporters as she boards her campaign plane at an international airport, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, in Morrisville, N.C. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves at reporters as she boards her campaign plane at an international airport, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, in Morrisville, N.C. WASHINGTON - Hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton 's top campaign official show her aides considered inserting jokes about her private email server into her speeches at several events - and at least one joke made it into her remarks.

Ita s legal to post a a ballot selfiea in California – after November elections

TRENTON, N.J. >> You probably already know whether you'll vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton on Election Day, leaving one important question to consider when you walk into your polling place: Is it OK to take a picture of your ballot? While secrecy in the voting booth has become a thing of the past for those ready to share their views and daily lives on social media, laws nationwide are mixed on whether voters are allowed to take pictures of themselves in the act or of their ballots - “ballot selfies”.

David M. Shribman

Now, finally, there is a logic - a strategic and even ideological rationale - for a presidential campaign that has shattered all the assumptions of logic, all the strategic and ideological precedents, of our politics. With the final presidential debate now in the swiftly receding past, the final balloting now swiftly approaching, the banalities and bathos now reaching their inevitable but welcome ends, we see clearly what this election is about.

Emma Brown:

A surrogate for Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump told a group of urban school superintendents on Friday that Trump would seek to do away with "corrupted, incompetent" public school systems in America's cities, replacing them with charter schools and vouchers for private schools. Such an approach would "encourage competition in the marketplace and eventually dismantle the corrupted, incompetent urban school districts that we have in America today," said Carl Paladino, Trump's New York State co-chairman, drawing audible boos from an audience composed largely of people who run the school districts Paladino criticized.

Top StoryTrump team says ‘we are behind’ but can still win the race

Donald Trump's campaign bluntly acknowledged Sunday that the real estate mogul is trailing Hillary Clinton as the presidential race hurtles toward a close, but insisted he still has a viable path to win the White House. With barely two weeks left and early voting underway in most of the U.S., Trump's team said "the race is not over" and pledged to keep campaigning hard - even in states like Virginia and Pennsylvania that polls show are now trending Clinton's way.

Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton as a SNLa tackles third presidential debate with Tom Hanks

As fall brings cooler temperatures to Central Illinois, one of the things to keep in mind is natural gas safety. Democrats are counting on U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth to defeat Illinois Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk as the party looks to reclaim the majority in the chamber.

Meet the Press – October 23, 2016

I have now spent four and a half hours on stage with Donald, proving once again, I have the stamina to be President and Commander-in-chief. Does Hillary Clinton try to run up the score to shut down any talk of a rigged election? And Clinton hopes to turn a White House win into a big night for Democrats down the ballot.

New poll shows Clinton over Trump by double-digits

Hillary Clinton has a 12-point lead over Donald Trump and has reached 50% support nationally among likely voters, a new ABC News tracking poll shows. The poll shows Clinton with 50% support to Trump's 38%, with 5% backing Libertarian Gary Johnson and 2% supporting the Green Party's Jill Stein.

Poles stage new protests over planned abortion restrictions

With a mix of euphoria, relief and disbelief, long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans are setting their sights on the team's first World Series in 71 years - and some are remembering departed loved ones who stuck with the... Come Election Day, California could legalize pot. Its new U.S. senator will be black or Hispanic - a first for the state.

I’ll heal divided America, says Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton's campaign is increasingly preparing for the possibility that Donald Trump may never concede the US presidential election should she win, a development that could enormously complicate the crucial early weeks of her preparations to take office. Aiming to undermine any argument the Republican nominee may make about a "rigged" election, she hopes to roll up a large majority in next month's election.