Evening Edition: In their only debate, Pence and Kaine prepare to defend running mates

Democrats pounce on Trump's comments about the military, PTSD; Trump's tax mystery points toward dealings around his first bankruptcies; This 8-year-old is free of cancer — for now — after a 'breakthrough' treatment; East Coast on high alert after Matthew strikes Haiti as strongest hurricane in 52 years; New smartphone from Google signals major shift into hardware production; This ISIS defector said he was an innocent bystander. A new video questions his story.; ROTC reforms weapons training after campus drills are mistaken for active shooters; Who should take statins? A vicious debate over cholesterol drugs.; How to raise kinder, less-entitled kids (according to science); Trump backers realize they’ve been played as WikiLeaks fails to deliver October surprise; Trump’s co-author on ‘The Art of the Deal’ donates $55,000 royalty check to charity; Want to know why Trump's winning Ohio? Drink a beer with 'the deplorables' in Boehner's old district.; What they said, what they meant; Philippine President Duterte tells Obama to 'go to hell'; ‘Brutal’ video shows white officer violently arresting black man sitting on his mother’s porch; This mayor won’t stop posting racist Obama memes. He won’t resign, either.;   The day's most important stories   In their only debate, Pence and Kaine prepare to defend running mates Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Kaine will share the biggest and most hazardous stage of their careers in tonight's faceoff, which is ­expected to center on the two figures atop the tickets: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. By Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Jenna Johnson  •  Read more » Democrats pounce on Trump's comments about the military, PTSD The backlash was swift and harsh after the GOP nominee suggested that soldiers and veterans with mental health issues are not "strong" and "can't handle it." By Katie Zezima  •  Read more »   Trump's tax mystery points toward dealings around his first bankruptcies How could Donald Trump have potentially avoided federal income taxes at a time when he appeared to be thriving? A clue to his claimed loss of $916 million in 1995 may be related to the intricate backstory of how his Atlantic City gambling empire slid into bankruptcy in the early 1990s. By Drew Harwell and Robert O'Harrow Jr.  •  Read more »   This 8-year-old is free of cancer — for now — after a 'breakthrough' treatment Ava Christianson had lost several grueling rounds to leukemia and was bracing for the next one before she began CAR T-cell therapy at NIH. The experimental treatment has given the freckle-faced girl, and other children, another chance to beat the disease that has stalked her since age 4. By Laurie McGinley  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   East Coast on high alert after Matthew strikes Haiti as strongest hurricane in 52 years Hurricane Matthew crashed ashore as a powerful Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds this morning and was expected to shift to Florida's east coast by Thursday before charging up the U.S. coast and heading toward the Mid-Atlantic. By Brian McNoldy and Angela Fritz  •  Read more »   New smartphone from Google signals major shift into hardware production As it launches a phone that will employ artificial-intelligence that users can converse with, the software giant seeks to adapt to a technology landscape increasingly dominated by mobile and other connected gadgets. By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg  •  Read more »   This ISIS defector said he was an innocent bystander. A new video questions his story. German militant Harry Sarfo depicted himself as a fighter who refused to commit violence in Syria. German authorities as well as the media used his story as intelligence. Video supplied by ISIS, which is eager to discredit him, shows he was much more involved. By Souad Mekhennet and Greg Miller  •  Read more »   ROTC reforms weapons training after campus drills are mistaken for active shooters A recent training exercise at a university in Virginia triggered a rapid response from the school and a police sweep of campus after students mistook cadets for suspicious men lurking in the woods. By T. Rees Shapiro  •  Read more »   Who should take statins? A vicious debate over cholesterol drugs. Britain's leading medical journals are accusing one another of endangering public health over the drugs, which are beneficial for people at a high risk of heart disease but may be problematic for those at a lower risk. By Kerry Lauerman  •  Read more »   How to raise kinder, less-entitled kids (according to science) Your children aren't beasts; there's an explanation for why they act that way. Here's how to fix it. By Karen Weese  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Trump backers realize they’ve been played as WikiLeaks fails to deliver October surprise For weeks, Donald Trump backers had hyped the possibility that WikiLeaks was on the verge of publishing documents that would doom Hillary Clinton's chances in November. But it now looks like the WikiLeaks' founder borrowed a page from the GOP nominee's own playbook. By Griff Witte  •  Read more »   Trump’s co-author on ‘The Art of the Deal’ donates $55,000 royalty check to charity Tony Schwartz said he wanted to help groups that he believed Trump had attacked. By David A. Fahrenthold  •  Read more »   Want to know why Trump's winning Ohio? Drink a beer with 'the deplorables' in Boehner's old district. A poll published yesterday by Quinnipiac University shows that Trump is ahead of Clinton in Ohio by 5 points (47 percent to 42 percent) and that this is the only battleground state where his lead expanded in the wake of the first debate. By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   What they said, what they meant Sign up to have The Fix's Aaron Blake text you the highlights of each debate as it unfolds. Read more »   Philippine President Duterte tells Obama to 'go to hell' The comment comes amid a string of pronouncements by the fiery Filipino leader announcing his disdain for the United States and his desire for closer ties with Russia and China. By Emily Rauhala  •  Read more »   ‘Brutal’ video shows white officer violently arresting black man sitting on his mother’s porch Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughn called the officer's actions "ugly," "brutal" and "completely unnecessary." By Kristine Guerra  •  Read more »   This mayor won’t stop posting racist Obama memes. He won’t resign, either. Charles Wasko, the borough mayor of West York, Pa., has posted memes showing the Obamas as orangutans and an image suggesting the president should be hanged. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for Headlines. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2016 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071