Wall St Rises on Energy, Apple Boost

U.S. stocks rose on Monday as energy shares gained with oil prices and as Apple jumped following problems with rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Note 7 phone. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 88.89 points, or 0.49 percent, to 18,329.38, the S&P 500 gained 9.93 points, or 0.46 percent, to 2,163.67 and the Nasdaq Composite added 36.27 points, or 0.69 percent, to 5,328.67.

Illustration on Donald Trump’s accumulating negatives by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency

The 2016 presidential campaign will go down in U.S. history as a nasty, below-the-belt, political brawl, filled with ugly, juvenile, mean-spirited behavior that has embarrassed our country before the world. Take the first campaign debate where the Republican front-runner suggested that one of the anchors, who asked why he insulted women he didn't like - calling them "fat pigs," "dogs," and "slobs" - was on her menstrual cycle.

Next U.S. president, Putin’s fourth, inherits sinking Russia ties

Confronted by Russia in Syria, Ukraine and cyberspace, the next U.S. president will be the fourth to face Vladimir Putin and the challenge of deterring a Kremlin often more willing than the White House to take risk and project power. Over the last four years, the Russian president has annexed Crimea and destabilised eastern Ukraine, stymied U.S. hopes to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and mounted cyber attacks that U.S. officials blame on hackers commanded or orchestrated by Russian intelligence agencies.

Wall Street Journal calls VP debate ‘Trump’s best’

"If Donald Trump could make the case for Donald Trump half as well as Mike Pence makes the case for Donald Trump, the New York businessman would be well on his way to the White House," the newspaper's editorial board wrote in an editorial Wednesday morning. The board applauded Pence's advocating for a more aggressive stance toward Russia while Kaine tried to blast the Republican ticket for being cozy with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

No a ” Russians did not start the #TrumpWon debate meme. Herea s what really happened.

Shortly after last week's presidential debate, people started to argue on Twitter that Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, had won the debate. The #Trumpwon hashtag made its way to the top of Twitter's worldwide trending topics, demonstrating how many people cared about the results of the debate, and wanted to argue that their candidate had won.

In fact: Why a special relationship with Russia matters

After India's surgical strikes along the LoC, Moscow expressed concern "with aggravation of situation along the line of control" and called on "parties not to allow any escalation of tension". This stood in sharp contrast to Russia's reaction to the 2008 terror strikes, where it supported "resolute actions of the Indian government to cut short terrorist actions".

Why the rest of the world would hand Clinton a landslide victory

Josef Joffe is editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg and fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he teaches U.S. foreign policy. For a country supposedly in decline, the United States is getting a lot of attention these days.

Hillary Clinton – Hillary Clinton claims Donald Trump invited Russian …

Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump gave Russian president Vladimir Putin the thumbs up to hack away at U.S. emails. Putin has "let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the Democratic National Committee," Clinton said during the first general election presidential debate at Hofstra University.

Pentagon officials draw sharp questions from GOP on Syria

The nation's top military officials faced sharp questions on Thursday from Republicans angry that the Obama administration is not taking more aggressive steps to end the 5-year-old-civil war in Syria. A senior GOP senator dismissed Secretary of State John Kerry as "intrepid but delusional" for trying to work with Russia.

Trudy Rubin: Trump’s praise for Putin shows just how dangerous he would be as president

A vacation on Ireland's west coast should have provided relief from the depressing realities of the U.S. election season. But it's hard to escape when every Irishman or woman you meet asks the same question, differing only in the choice of adjective: My reply: "I still believe most Americans have the common sense to grasp that Trump presents the greatest threat to U.S. security and democracy since the end of the Cold War."

Putin on US Elections: We’ll Support Anybody ‘Friendly to Us’

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he hoped the United States would stick to its commitments on Syria, adding that he believed securing a truce in that country's conflict was the common goal of both Moscow and Washington. The United States and Russia said on Friday they wanted to extend the four-day-old ceasefire in Syria they have co-sponsored, although the agreement looks increasingly shaky, undermined by increasing violence and a failure to deliver aid.

FBI trying to build legal cases against Russian hackers: sources

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is intensifying efforts to find enough evidence to enable the Justice Department to indict some of the Russians that U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded are hacking into American political parties and figures, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials said on Thursday.Building legal cases is difficult, largely because the best evidence against foreign hackers is often highly classified, they said. Still, some White House and State Department officials think legal action is the best way to respond to what they said are growing Russian attempts to disrupt and discredit the November elections, without sparking an open confrontation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Wanted – for Putin her foot down: Police hunt Russian millionaire’s …

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Hillary Clinton is in for an ‘October Surprise’ attack before the election, experts say

Thousands and thousands of people are in a single room, sculling Bavarian beer in lederhosen and cute little fedoras, right? Yeah, not in America. In the US election, the October-fest is better known as the surprise events that are dropped at the last minute to alter the course of an election campaign, and dramatically screw with each candidate's carefully-crafted reputation.