Evening Edition: Trump declares war on GOP, says 'shackles have been taken off'

The Fix: Trump is blowing up the Republican Party; The 2016 electoral map is rapidly slipping away from Donald Trump; Five questions that will decide the electoral fate of the GOP; By 2025, most of Trump's tax cuts would go to the wealthiest 1 percent; 'Get out. Get out now.': N.C. governor urges residents to flee lowlands below dam; Horrific rains and ocean surge: Hurricane Matthew by the numbers; Federal appeals court rules the structure of CFPB is unconstitutional; Taking no chances: Obama slips off his wedding ring as he shakes hands with public; Donald Trump, unplugged as ever ; Fact Checker: Hillary Clinton and the Kathy Shelton rape case; The Fix: Why Clinton's Lincoln defense of her leaked Wall Street comments falls flat; What they said, what they meant; Facebook, Twitter and Instagram helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, ACLU says; Comcast is being punished for charging customers for channels they didn’t want; Gunmen attack Shiite worshipers in Kabul, at least 14 dead; Pluto gets a buddy: A new dwarf planet is discovered in our solar system; Five dead teens, a stolen police car and the 'most horrific' crash in decades; This father put his children through college. But a prosecutor says he ‘executed’ one of them.; Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life?;   The day's most important stories   Trump declares war on GOP, says ‘shackles have been taken off’ In a blizzard of tweets one month before the election, the Republican nominee lashed out at party leaders, calling House Speaker Paul Ryan "weak and ineffective" and "disloyal" after Ryan said he would no longer campaign for Trump. By Sean Sullivan  •  Read more » The Fix: Trump is blowing up the Republican Party What appears to be happening is the Breitbart-ization of Trump's campaign, adopting a strategy of full-on attack against everyone who doesn't see the world as he does — including Republicans. By Chris Cillizza  •  Read more »   The 2016 electoral map is rapidly slipping away from Donald Trump Donald Trump's path to 270 votes is so narrow you almost can't see it anymore. By Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   Five questions that will decide the electoral fate of the GOP Republican strategists know with certainty that there will be political casualties from Trump's ongoing collapse. They just don't know where or how many. By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   By 2025, most of Trump's tax cuts would go to the wealthiest 1 percent Two new analyses are a reminder that the election puts serious money at stake for many American households. By Max Ehrenfreund  •  Read more »   'Get out. Get out now.': N.C. governor urges residents to flee lowlands below dam Widespread flooding and "extremely dangerous" conditions will persist at least until Friday, Gov. Pat McCrory said. At least 14 deaths in the state have been blamed on Hurricane Matthew, and officials fear a major dam may fail while straining to hold back water levels swollen by the storm. By Chico Harlan and Angela Fritz  •  Read more »   Horrific rains and ocean surge: Hurricane Matthew by the numbers From Haiti to North Carolina, the hurricane left a trail of destruction. In the U.S., staggering quantities of rain and the resulting flooding caused the greatest damage. By Jason Samenow and Angela Fritz  •  Read more »   Federal appeals court rules the structure of CFPB is unconstitutional But the court decided against shutting down the agency, ruling that it should be restructured so that the director could be removed by the president at will. By Jonnelle Marte  •  Read more »   Taking no chances: Obama slips off his wedding ring as he shakes hands with public Even with all the Secret Service agents around him, the president is extra careful when it comes to his personal valuables. The Obamas recently celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary. By David Nakamura  •  Read more »   Donald Trump, unplugged as ever Read the annotated transcript from the Republican nominee's appearance in Ambridge, Pa. — his first rally since the debate and since The Post released the lewd video on Friday. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   Fact Checker: Hillary Clinton and the Kathy Shelton rape case The rape victim is angry at Clinton for requesting a psychiatric exam. But court records show the request was denied. By Glenn Kessler  •  Read more »   The Fix: Why Clinton's Lincoln defense of her leaked Wall Street comments falls flat Trump is going to press this attack hard. As he should. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   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 »   Facebook, Twitter and Instagram helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, ACLU says The companies reportedly provided data to a company that delivers surveillance information to law enforcement agencies. The firms have since sought to restrict access to the data. By Craig Timberg and Elizabeth Dwoskin  •  Read more »   Comcast is being punished for charging customers for channels they didn’t want The $2.3 million fine is one of the biggest civil penalties ever levied on a cable company. By Brian Fung  •  Read more »   Gunmen attack Shiite worshipers in Kabul, at least 14 dead Security officials had warned that violence could erupt during some of the holiest days for Shiite Muslims. By Pamela Constable and Sayed Salahuddin  •  Read more »   Pluto gets a buddy: A new dwarf planet is discovered in our solar system The planet, known for now as 2014 UZ224, is about the size Iowa and twice as distant as Pluto. It takes more than 1,000 years to orbit the sun. By Sarah Kaplan  •  Read more »   Five dead teens, a stolen police car and the 'most horrific' crash in decades While a Vermont police officer tried to save five teenagers from a burning car after a wrong-way driver crashed into them, a man stole his police cruiser, hitting seven more cars and sending five other people to the hospital. By Katie Mettler  •  Read more »   This father put his children through college. But a prosecutor says he ‘executed’ one of them. Nothing, it seemed, could explain why Jamal Mansour — a father of four girls and two boys — would allegedly shoot the youngest of his children twice in the head. By Kristine Guerra  •  Read more »   Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? The counterculture was never more lucrative than this weekend, when McCartney, Dylan, the Rolling Stones and more performed at a three-night festival that drew 75,000 people every night. 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