* By pairing up with Bannon, Trump abandons centrists to focus on winning over those who already supported him. * The RNC can't pull funding from Trump without risking low turnout and losses down the ballot. * Paul Manafort further tied to facilitating secret lobbying by Ukrainian pro-Russian parties. * Squatter
* State Dept. says $400m payment to Iran wasn't ransom, but was delayed to create "leverage" in hostage return. * Before and after views of Southern Louisiana, devastated this week by historic flooding. * Worried by Trumputin, Congress wants to obstruct removing Russian sanctionsenergy companies have already started.
* Former CIA chief endorses Clinton, calls Trump a threat to national security. * Sturm Ruger CEO links Clintons perceived opposition to gun rights to a spike in sales. * How a top GOP lawyer guided a Chinese-owned company into influencing US presidential politics. * Missouri public defender, fed up with a
* Filipino president links over a hundred government officials to the drug trade, encourages their extrajudicial murder. * Nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri hanged in Iran for spying for the US. * Russian athletes banned from competing at the Rio 2016 Paralympics following the country's doping scandal. * Weightlifting lost its integrity as
* Senator Collins of Maine says she won't vote for Trump over "his constant stream of cruel comments." * Fifty former national security officials say Trump would be "the most reckless President in American history." * Nine beliefs of the neo-liberal. * How Paul Krugman made Trump
* Trump suggests "second amendment people" should shoot Clinton if she becomes president. * Reminder: Trump hasn't spent a dime on TV advertising. * Momentum grows for boycotting the Dominican Republic, where racist immigration policy is deporting Haitians en masse. * Democrats in Congress break from Obama to condemn Brazil
* Away from Rio, Brazil's Senate begins impeachment against Rousseff. * Philippines presidents latest bad idea: calling the US ambassador a gay son of a whore on TV. * There's always a bit of truth to a dangerous punch line, especially when it's joking about taking
* Trump cant win if he loses Florida, but he only has one field office and no visible footprint in the state. * Right-wing commentators cycle through baseless theories about Clintons dire health. * Despite his former insistence, Trump now says he was being sarcastic when he said Obama founded
* Trump racks up $64 million in small donations during biggest fundraising period yet. * Citizens United turns the legal wall against foreign money in US elections into something more like a sieve. * Clinton could defeat Trump with capitalism, simply by pledging to grow the economy. * European-style welfare found to provide
* Since Philippines president Duterte took office last month, over 400 alleged drug traffickers have been killed. * Pivotal election in South Africa may wrest power away from the ANC. * Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega picks his wife to run as his vice presidential candidate. * Trump refuses to back Ryan or McCain'
