Sunday's Headlines: Buoyed by rising polls, Clinton shifts to a new target: The House and Senate

Trump tries to look to the future but gets mired in present troubles; Has Trump transformed America or just revealed it?; Cubs capture first pennant since 1945, and the angst is put at bay — for now; In Flint, a water crisis with no end in sight;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Buoyed by rising polls, Clinton shifts to a new target: The House and Senate Emboldened by Donald Trump's troubles and polls predicting an electoral-college landslide in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton is shifting her strategy to lift other Democrats. Her campaign is spending big, too: More than $100 million has been funneled to other Democrats from coast to coast. By Philip Rucker, Ed O'Keefe and Mike DeBonis  •  Read more » Trump tries to look to the future but gets mired in present troubles In a speech outlining his vision for his first 100 days in office, the GOP nominee initially used the talk to accuse the media of biased reporting and vowed to sue the nearly-dozen women who have accused him of sexual assault. By Jenna Johnson and Jose A. DelReal  •  Read more »   Has Trump transformed America or just revealed it? The GOP presidential nominee's ability to embrace — or manipulate — average Americans' anxieties is inspiring more raw and rough rhetoric in politics, darker and more somber popular music, and in TV, movies and other arts, an edgier, more nervous set of characters and themes. By Marc Fisher  •  Read more »   Cubs capture first pennant since 1945, and the angst is put at bay — for now COLUMN | After hard-to-believe losses in the team's last two trips to the National League Championship Series, Chicago fans everywhere felt relief with their team's victory in a crisp and slightly lopsided game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. By Thomas Boswell  •  Read more »   In Flint, a water crisis with no end in sight More than a year after officials finally acknowledged that the city's water system was contaminated by lead, many residents still rely on bottled water because promised aid has yet to arrive. In ways large and small, the crisis continues to shape daily life. By Brady Dennis  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   We live in Aleppo. Here’s how we survive. By Omair Shaaban  •  Read more »   It's our job to explain what 'bad hombres' means By Kory Stamper  •  Read more »   How fascist is Donald Trump? There's a formula for that. By John McNeill  •  Read more »   How to get that winter body in time for parka season By Sarah Hutto  •  Read more »   The time Donald Trump got groped By Carlos Lozada  •  Read more »   How can you tell if someone is kind? Ask how rich they are. By Karen Weese  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   In seismic shift for media, AT&T to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion The blockbuster deal between telecom titan AT&T and media conglomerate Time Warner casts a spotlight on tech giants' accelerating conquest of media in an increasingly unbundled world. By Drew Harwell, Brian Fung and Christian Davenport  •  Read more » Once the 'most popular politician on Earth,' Brazil's Lula now faces prosecutors As ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confronts corruption charges, candidates he has backed have done poorly. But Lula himself remains one of the more beloved figures in Brazil. By Dom Phillips  •  Read more » Hundreds sickened as Islamic State militants set sulfur mine ablaze to slow troops' advance on Mosul The noxious fumes menaced civilians and forced Iraqi and U.S. troops to wear protective masks, but officials gave no indication that the tactic has interrupted the offensive. By Kareem Fahim and Thomas Gibbons-Neff  •  Read more » As Trump delivers his Gettysburg address, GOP prepares for a civil war Antipathy between the nominee and GOP leaders makes a solution to the party's growing demographic disadvantage seem even more remote. By Dan Balz  •  Read more » Trump and Clinton took to the debate stage and made sweet, sweet music The songs are as different as their politics. By Steven Overly  •  Read more » 'Maybe I shouldn't be saying that': Trump jokes that it's okay for his supporters to commit voter fraud His tone was joking -- but the comments follow several days of serious allegations that the system is "rigged" against him. By Jenna Johnson  •  Read more » Look at all the college football teams coming back from the dead From Penn State to Auburn to West Virginia to Nebraska to Colorado to LSU and back up to SMU, once-forgotten teams made an impression with signature wins over the weekend. By Chuck Culpepper  •  Read more » A musician's calculated creativity Instead of waiting for bursts of inspiration, Grammy winner Hilary Hahn became one of the most illuminating violinists of our time by taking a methodical, inquisitive approach. By Anne Midgette  •  Read more » 'She didn't have credibility anymore': The moment Rolling Stone's U-Va. rape story unraveled Former magazine writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely described to a federal jury the phone call that made her realize the alleged victim had been lying to her. By Joe Heim  •  Read more » Two years ago, 43 Mexican students disappeared. Now, an ex-police chief's arrest may help crack the case. Officials believe the ex-police chief from the town of Iguala, arrested while on the run, followed orders to get rid of the students — and then tried to cover up the police's role in their disappearance. By Kristine Guerra  •  Read more » News quiz: Were you paying attention this week? We've got questions about the presidential debate, sure, but those weren't the only headlines. Answer quickly for a time bonus. By Tiffany Harness  •  Read more » How new overtime rules apply to you The Labor Department offers resources to you get up to speed. By Karla L. Miller  •  Read more » Is your airline telling you everything? Transportation Dept. investigators went to a dozen U.S. airports to test companies on follow-through. Many failed. By Christopher Elliott  •  Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you are signed up for Headlines. 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