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After a controversial debate performance on Wednesday night in which Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to say he would accept the election results if he lost, he told a rally on Thursday that he would only accept the outcome “if I win.”

Trump said in a speech before 1,500 people at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio, “I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election – if I win.”... Read Original Article

A right-wing think tank has denounced Donald Trump’s tax and spending plans for adding nearly $6.8 trillion to our national debt.

“Donald Trump’s policy proposals as a candidate for president would have a deleterious effect on the federal budget,” writes Gordon Gray, director of fiscal policy at American Action Forum and a former staffer for Republican Senator Rob Portman.... Read Original Article

Russia has proposed sending diplomats to our country in order to monitor the upcoming presidential elections. Not surprisingly, this suggestion has been resoundingly — and sometimes forcefully — rejected.

According to the Russian newspaper Izvestia, sources in Russia’s Central Elections Commission held a series of talks with the State Department about sending a delegation of monitors to American polling stations on the day of the presidential election.... Read Original Article

According to Donald Trump Jr., winning the presidency would actually be a “step down” for his father.

In an interview with Fox News shortly after the debate, Trump Jr. tried to spin his father’s unpolished performance by arguing that his father wasn’t a “career politician” and that “if he had been doing this for his whole life, he’d be the greatest politician in the history of the world.”... Read Original Article

Republican pollster Frank Luntz held a panel of undecided voters to watch Wednesday night’s presidential debate. His discovery? They really, really hate their options.

When voters were asked to sum up the candidates in one word, Trump received descriptions like “improved,” “struggled,” “blowhard,” “inadequate,” “passionate,” “P. T. Barnum” and “rude.”

For Clinton, the terms included “presidential, “competent, “snoozefest,” “criminal actress,” “more believable” and “politician.”... Read Original Article

Donald Trump’s supporters have found a new way of trying to spin his refusal to accept the outcome of the 2016 presidential election if he loses. They’re insisting that of course he will accept it “if it’s fair.”

Senator Jeff Sessions, who has long been one of Trump’s key supporters within the Beltway, said that Trump will accept the results “if they’re fair and he’s had the opportunity to challenge them if need be.”... Read Original Article

Donald Trump shocked the political world when he said during the third presidential debate Wednesday night that, if he loses on Nov. 8, he may not accept the results of the election. The Trump campaign is downplaying the worries by pointing to Al Gore’s decision to contest the outcome of the 2000 presidential election.... Read Original Article

Donald Trump may be widely viewed as the loser of Wednesday night’s presidential debate, but in the process he may have used his Facebook page to achieve a very different goal: Starting his own TV network.

The action began on Trump’s Facebook page, where the debate was livestreamed in a feed that declared itself as an alternative to the “mainstream media.”... Read Original Article

Apple’s HomeKit app may be free, but if you download it, the company has $30,000 worth of devices for your home that it would like to sell you, many of which run using the app.

Perhaps to make up for the slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple is betting big on the so-called “internet of things” — connected versions of everyday objects, in particular the household variety.... Read Original Article

Think you’re underpaid? Glassdoor has developed a new tool to help determine whether suspicions are justified.

Glassdoor’s lets you input your employer’s name and location, job title, years of relevant experience and current salary. After a quick calculation, it then tells you how much you ought to be paid. Currently, this feature covers 55 to 60 percent of the American workforce.... Read Original Article

If you’re reading this in America, there is a 50/50 chance that your face appears in a police database. 

According to a report released on Tuesday by the Center for Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University, law enforcement databases contain facial recognition information on more than 117 million Americans, approximately half of all the adults who live in this country.... Read Original Article

It looks like Twitter’s notorious troll problem is hurting its bottom line.

Although Twitter has been trying — thus far unsuccessfully — to get acquired by fellow tech and media industry giants like Disney, Google, and Salesforce, reports indicate that Twitter’s reputation as a haven for sexism, racism, and harassment has made these companies hesitate to purchase the social media site.... Read Original Article

At Liberty University, the famous Christian university founded by Jerry Falwell, you have to answer to God. And, if the subject is Donald Trump, Jerry Falwell Jr., too.

Joel Schmieg, the sports editor of the Liberty Champion, said that he was prevented from writing an article about Donald Trump’s sexual assault conversation with Billy Bush, which the Republican waved off as mere “locker room talk.”  ... Read Original Article

Like the last presidential debate, which started with a bout of pre-debate psychological warfare, Wednesday night’s third presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump will feature guests intended to poke the presidential candidates. But unlike the last debate, there may not be even the smallest hint of decorum.... Read Original Article

Maine Gov. Paul LePage is lining up behind Donald Trump’s conspiracy train, agreeing with the Republican nominee’s charge that there’s going to be widespread voter fraud during next month’s general election.

LePage also pushed for voter ID laws by claiming that his own state’s elections would be “rigged” without them.

“The left, the Democratic Party, insists on not having IDs.... Read Original Article

Ecuador has admitted that it limited Julian Assange’s internet access on Monday to stop him from interfering in the US presidential election.

As the South American nation explained in a statement released Tuesday, “the Government of Ecuador respects the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other states. It does not interfere in external electoral processes, nor does it favor any particular candidate.... Read Original Article

Marco Rubio doesn’t want Republicans to gloat about the revelations from the WikiLeaks hacks. He’s afraid he and his party could be next.

The Florida senator told ABC News Tuesday that Republicans should avoid capitalizing on the hacked Hillary Clinton emails being released by WikiLeaks, saying, “Tomorrow it could be us.”... Read Original Article