Sunday's Headlines: GOP consumed by crisis as more Republicans call on Trump to quit

More crude sex remarks by Trump surface in Howard Stern tapes; GOP hopes Clinton remarks take heat away from Trump; Inside Trump Tower: A defiant and insulated GOP nominee; With weeks to go, a major party is walking away from its nominee; Vulgar video pushed this Trump supporter over the edge; The Fix: Pence lays bare his awkward reality with Trump; NBC sought lawyers' approval before airing Trump video; As Matthew weakens, fears about major flooding persist; In Haiti, at least 470 dead and no relief in sight for hundreds of thousands; Matthew washes away sand dunes and dreams on the Florida coast;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories GOP consumed by crisis as more Republicans call on Trump to quit The fallout from the 2005 video of Donald Trump bragging in vulgar terms about groping women now threatens to endanger the GOP's hold on both houses of Congress. Despite outside pressure, Trump said he had "tremendous support" and vowed to "never withdraw" from the race. By Jenna Johnson, Sean Sullivan and Robert Costa  •  Read more » More crude sex remarks by Trump surface in Howard Stern tapes The GOP presidential nominee had sexually explicit conversations in a series of radio interviews over the past 23 years. By Marc Fisher  •  Read more »   GOP hopes Clinton remarks take heat away from Trump Several liberal activists felt discomfort upon seeing the contents of speeches they had long sought as evidence of Hillary Clinton's ties to Wall Street. But some of them hope the leak will make it easier to hold her feet to the fire on Wall Street reform. By Anne Gearan and John Wagner  •  Read more »   Inside Trump Tower: A defiant and insulated GOP nominee Donald Trump spent most of the past 24 hours hunkered down with his most loyal advisers, refusing to accept or recognize the full reality of what was happening outside. By Philip Rucker, Dan Balz and Robert Costa  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   With weeks to go, a major party is walking away from its nominee Republicans risked the party's survival by tying it to Donald Trump as he led them into a crisis both extraordinary and predictable. By Karen Tumulty, Tom Hamburger and Matea Gold  •  Read more »   Vulgar video pushed this Trump supporter over the edge A Utah mom had decided to embrace the GOP nominee. Now, she says, "This is the nail in the coffin. I'm done. I cannot look my children in the eye and tell them I voted for this man." By Robert Samuels  •  Read more »   The Fix: Pence lays bare his awkward reality with Trump He can't defend Trump's 2005 remarks about women — but has he ever really been able to successfully defend Trump? By Amber Phillips  •  Read more »   NBC sought lawyers' approval before airing Trump video The Washington Post, acting on a tip from a source who was apparently frustrated by the delay, ended up scooping NBC. By Paul Farhi  •  Read more »   As Matthew weakens, fears about major flooding persist The National Weather Service downgraded Matthew to a post-tropical cyclone early Sunday but also warned of a "danger of life-threatening inundation" for the next day and a half in parts of North Carolina. By Dustin Waters, Kirk Ross and Joel Achenbach  •  Read more »   In Haiti, at least 470 dead and no relief in sight for hundreds of thousands While larger shipments of food and medicine by land and sea are on the way, aid workers estimate that a half-million people along the southern coast have still not been reached by outsiders. By Joshua Partlow  •  Read more »   Matthew washes away sand dunes and dreams on the Florida coast Several communities are in shambles and the Atlantic Coast Highway — the economic lifeline of the state's small beach towns — has been reduced to an impassable pile of concrete and asphalt rubble. By Arelis Hernández and Renae Merle  •  Read more »   Opinions   The Republican Party does the same pathetic dance with Trump By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   We have known this Trump all along By Dana Milbank  •  Read more »   Only the willfully blind are shocked by Trump By E.J. Dionne Jr.  •  Read more »   These books will help you hate Hillary Clinton. But only if you already do. By Carlos Lozada  •  Read more »   Fact check: This is not really a post-fact election By Alexios Mantzarlis  •  Read more »   Five myths about Russia By Masha Gessen  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   Suspect who ‘wanted to kill police’ captured after shooting 3 officers in Palm Springs Two officers were fatally shot and a third was injured responding to a reported disturbance at a residence in the California city. By Fred Barbash  •  Read more » Afghan troops pay the price as Taliban bombs grow more powerful The past decade of war against the Taliban has produced a new generation of disabled men, most of them far more grievously wounded than the older veterans.  By Pamela Constable  •  Read more » A short history of celebrities talking about the memes they became People become memes on the Internet all the time, for better or for worse. For a celebrity, a meme about them might seem like a small thing at first. But these things have a way of worming into their popular image, and changing it. By Abby Ohlheiser  •  Read more » College football rides a wave of gloriously unpredictable action With the notable exceptions of Alabama and Ohio State, very little in college football makes any sense these days, as shown by this week's wild games involving top-10 teams. By Chuck Culpepper  •  Read more » News quiz: How much do you know about the week’s headlines? Something happened to Kim Kardashian, and Google announced a new smartphone. If you know about these events and eight other newsmakers, you could be our top scorer. By Kerry Lauerman and Tiffany Harness  •  Read more » A tumultuous day in the life of a Republican Senate candidate Missouri's Sen. Roy Blunt continued to support Donald Trump on Saturday — and continued to delicately navigate around his controversies. By David Weigel  •  Read more » Column: A political bombshell was right under NBC's nose. What took the network so long? Why hasn't the unique access to Trump recordings over many years been used before? By Margaret Sullivan  •  Read more » After failing to seduce Nancy O'Dell, Trump reportedly tried to have her fired Two years after the 2005 video was recorded, Trump tried to have O'Dell fired as host of the Miss USA pageant, reportedly because she was pregnant. By Ellen McCarthy  •  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 » The burden of private school guilt The precarious balance between what's right for our own children and social responsibility. By Lea Page  •  Read more » Too young to work the tobacco fields? Farmers call it tradition. Health experts call it hazardous. Kids — and the families that need the money — call it a paycheck. By Alexandra Hall  •  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. 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. 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