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With Hillary Clinton’s election seeming increasingly likely, Democratic Party leaders are now ramping up their efforts to retake the Senate.

Over the weekend, Clinton called on voters in Pennsylvania and North Carolina to support the Democratic Senate candidates in those states (Katie McGinty and Deborah Ross, respectively) and reject the Republican incumbents, Sen.... Read Original Article

More information has come out highlighting possible troubling connections of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to the Vladimir Putin regime in Russia.

The New York Post reported that, according to sources, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and ex-”core” aide Rick Gates have financial ties to a biometric security company that lobbied the Putin administration on behalf of technology that would help it spy on its citizens.... Read Original Article

Donald Trump appears to be backpedaling on one of his signature campaign proposals, saying the Mexican government won’t necessarily be paying for a border wall between their country and the United States.

In a policy speech delivered on Saturday in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Trump promised that the wall that would be built by his End Illegal Immigration Act would be subsidized by American taxpayers, with Mexico reimbursing us for the cost.... Read Original Article

Polling forecasts may give Hillary Clinton an 86 percent chance of defeating Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean she’ll be able to ignore the populist issues of trade and lobbying that helped fuel Trump’s candidacy after this campaign has ended.

When Trump narrowed the margin between himself and Clinton between mid-August and mid-September, he did it by focusing on the populist reform issues that gave his candidacy a veneer of substance.... Read Original Article

Hedge fund management may be a dying industry, at least if the managers themselves are to be believed.

“It’s miserable, miserable,” bemoaned 57-year-old manager Howard Fischer to Bloomberg about the returns posted by his company, $1.1 billion Basso Capital Management, over the past three years. “If that’s the normal expectation, I don’t have a business.”... Read Original Article

Continuing Apple’s run of bad luck in the Chinese market, early reports indicate that sales of the iPhone 7 in the world’s most populous country have been “tepid.”

“iPhone 7 interest [is] tepid … [UBS China] distributor checks find that iPhone 7 sales are weaker than the 6s was out of the box [after launch],” wrote analyst Steven Milunovich of UBS in a note to clients on Thursday.... Read Original Article

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joined Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in demanding that Araid Pharmaceuticals justify their recent price increases on leukemia medication.

Iclusig, the drug in question, has had its cost raised four times in 2016 alone. Its annual cost is now almost $200,000 annually, leadings Sanders and Cummings to write “these outrageous sales tactics indicate that Ariad is more concerned with its profit than with its patients.”... Read Original Article

Bob Dylan’s website just removed its reference to his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Although BobDylan.com had added “winner of the Nobel Prize in literature” to its “Lyrics” section on Thursday, that reference was deleted Friday. It’s consistent with the reticence that has characterized Dylan’s response to the announcement ever since it was made announced on October 13th.... Read Original Article

Hillary Clinton’s campaign released a powerful ad Friday featuring Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim-American war hero who sparred with Donald Trump.

The ad opens with Khan narrating how his son, Humayun Khan, died while thwarting an attack by terrorists in Iraq.

Khan, who rose to fame by asking Donald Trump if he read the Constitution during the Democratic National Convention in August, asks Trump, his lip trembling:

“I want to ask Mr.... Read Original Article

WikiLeaks sent out an ominous tweet on Thursday teasing the impending release of embarrassing information about Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile.

“We have a suprise [sic] in store for @TimKaine and @DonnaBrazile,” the tweet ominously promised.

When asked about the tweet at a rally in Durham, North Carolina, Kaine ignored the question.... Read Original Article

One fiscal conservative, billionaire Pete Peterson, has an outsized role in shaping this election season’s debate on economic policy.

Peterson, who runs the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, an advocacy group that focuses on shrinking the budget deficit as a major policy priority — has asked four questions about the deficit during this debate cycle, as noted by The Intercept. ... Read Original Article

For the second time this week, Donald Trump has walked away from an interview as soon as it got tough for him.

In an interview with WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio on Thursday, Trump was asked by Colleen Marshall about the allegations of racism and sexism that have been repeatedly made against him.... Read Original Article

Donald Trump may claim that voter fraud is rampant, but his own experience being turned away from voting twice during the 2004 presidential election suggests he should know better.

In 2004, during an appearance on “Access Hollywood” — of course it would be with Billy Bush — Trump was turned away from two different polling sites during the presidential election because his name wasn’t on the rolls. ... Read Original Article

President Obama blasted Sen. Marco Rubio for his willingness to vote for Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Florida Memorial University on Thursday.

“How can you call him a con artist and dangerous and object to all the controversial things he says, and then say, I’m still going to vote for him?”... Read Original Article

Donald Trump helped finance the creator of videos purporting to show individuals working on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s campaign inciting violence at Trump rallies, according to a new report.

The videos, which claimed to prove that the Clinton campaign (as well as representatives of President Barack Obama) were paying people $1,500 to “be violent, cause fights, do bad things,” were produced by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, which was given a $10,000 donation from the Trump Foundation, Think Progress reports.... Read Original Article

Alec Baldwin’s Saturday Night Live impression of Donald Trump may have become iconic, but one person isn’t laughing — his conservative brother, Stephen Baldwin.

“I don’t want to be a party pooper, but I don’t think it’s very funny,” Baldwin told CBS News on Wednesday night, where he appeared as a guest at the final presidential debate.... Read Original Article

One of the most memorable moments of Wednesday’s presidential debate was when Hillary Clinton told Donald Trump that Putin preferred him because “he’d rather have a puppet as president of the United States.” Trump’s response was a take on the old “I’m rubber and you’re glue” approach, repeating ,“No puppet. No puppet.”... Read Original Article