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Donald Trump’s awkward love affair from white supremacists continued on Wednesday as the campaign distanced itself from the glowing support of the KKK’s official newspaper.

It’s important not to use the word “endorsement” here because, technically speaking, The Crusader didn’t go all-out and endorse Trump.

“Overall, we do like his nationalist views and his words about shutting down the border to illegal aliens,” explained Pastor Thomas Robb, the national director of the Ku Klux Klan.... Read Original Article

Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, a man who has been referred to as Donald Trump’s “go-to guy” in Texas, is apologizing for a “deplorable” tweet his Twitter account sent out, which referred to Hillary Clinton as a “cunt.”

“PENNSYLVANIA: NEW AUTO ALLIANCE POLL,” the tweet read. “TRUMP 44 Cunt 43 Go Trump Go!”... Read Original Article

Emily Doe, the pseudonym used by the anonymous Stanford undergraduate who was raped by Brock Turner in January 2015, wrote an article for Glamour on Tuesday announcing that “victims are survivors, and survivors are going to be doing a hell of a lot more than surviving.”

The essay opens with Doe describing how, despite having “forensic evidence, sober un­biased witnesses, a slurred voicemail, police at the scene,” she was told her case still wasn’t a slam dunk.... Read Original Article

China isn’t mincing words: If Donald Trump becomes president, they expect him to do the right thing and uphold the Paris Agreement, the global accord on curbing climate change.

On Tuesday Xie Zhenhua, China’s special representative for climate-change affairs, was asked how China would work with a Trump administration if the Republican nominee is elected as president.... Read Original Article

Could a leaf of spinach make the difference in thwarting a terrorist attack?

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are certainly hoping so. Using an approach known as “plant nanobionics,” the researchers at MIT have embedded carbon nanotubes in spinach that identifies the odors of specific chemicals commonly used in incendiary devices.... Read Original Article

Still reeling from its recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, Samsung announced on Tuesday that it will invest more than $1 billion by mid-2017 in its semiconductor chips facilities in Austin, Texas.

“Samsung Austin Semiconductor LLC (SAS) continues to contribute to the health of the Austin economy by planning to invest more than $1 billion by the first half of 2017,” the company explained in a statement.... Read Original Article

President Obama’s internet savvy may have once resulted in his being dubbed a “social media ninja,” but like all good things, the 44th president’s days as a Twitter sensation must soon come to an end.

Fortunately, Obama has already come up with a plan for both preserving his own tweets for history and passing on his account to the next Oval Office occupant.... Read Original Article

Republican operative and Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone was forced to retract a claim he made last week that Hillary Clinton had met with Florida officials to rig the presidential election.

“Yesterday Hillary Clinton shows up in Broward County, slips into a private meeting with the woman who runs the board of elections,” Stone said during his interview last week with Alex Jones, a notorious conspiracy theorist.... Read Original Article

A super PAC operating on behalf of House Republican candidates is using a discredited video by right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe in its latest series of campaign ads launched on Tuesday.

In the spot released by the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), viewers are shown clips from O’Keefe’s latest video, which claims to contain evidence of Democratic leaders and organizers deliberately stirring up violence at Donald Trump rallies.... Read Original Article

New documents have surfaced showing that Donald Trump avoided financial ruin in the early 1990s through a controversial technique known as a “stock-for-debt swap,” according to a report by The New York Times on Monday.

In a stock-for-debt swap, an individual or company who can only pay part of a large debt but doesn’t wish to report the forgiveness of the remainder, which would then be counted as taxable income, simply uses stock (regardless of its value) as a substitute for the unpaid amount.... Read Original Article

More evidence is piling up linking Donald Trump to the Russian government, including the discovery of a secret server that existed solely to connect the Trump Organization to a powerful Russian bank, and a report that the FBI was informed that Vladimir Putin’s regime wanted to cultivate a relationship with the Republican nominee.... Read Original Article

Sen. Richard Burr (R – North Carolina) is apologizing for his joke at a get-out-the-vote rally on Saturday that supporters of gun-rights might want to put a “bullseye” on Hillary Clinton.

“Nothing made me feel any better than [when] I walked to a gun shop, I think, yesterday in Oxford. There was a copy of Rifleman on the counter,” he said, referring to the NRA’s monthly magazine.... Read Original Article

.@alfranken was on my flight back to DC tonight. He sang “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” as part of a joint effort to calm a baby 🌈pic.twitter.com/zwiZKuPXrX

— Ashley Alman (@ashleyalman) Oct. 31, 2016

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota, has just added some much-needed levity to the election season.

As an editor for The Huffington Post was fortunate enough to witness and record, Franken found himself confronted with a crying baby as he returned from a recent trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he had campaigned on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.... Read Original Article

If Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is right, FBI Director James Comey is covering up downright treasonous activity from Donald Trump’s campaign so that the Republican can win.

In a public letter written to Comey on Sunday, Reid wrote that “in my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about the close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors and the Russian government – a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States, which Trump praises at every opportunity.... Read Original Article

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has publicly accused James Comey of breaking the law, charging in a letter sent on Sunday that the FBI director violated federal statutes that prohibit government officials from using their authority to influence an election.

“Your actions in recent months have demonstrated a disturbing double standard for the treatment of sensitive information, with what appears to be a clear intent to aid one political party over another,” Reid argued.... Read Original Article

General Electric Co. is about to announce a nearly $30 billion merger to combine its oil and gas business with Baker Hughes Inc, the third-largest oilfield services provider in the world.

If the merger goes through, it would allow GE to create a publicly traded corporation that would have revenue of more than $25 billion.... Read Original Article