Thursday's Headlines: Clinton campaign’s debate strategy extends far beyond the stage

Fox News' Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly trade testy exchanges over Trump interviews; Fact Checker: Clinton, Kaine airbrush out inconvenient details about U.S. departure from Iraq; The once-celebrated blood-testing company Theranos to close labs, lay off hundreds of workers; 2 million under evacuation orders as Hurricane Matthew churns toward Southeast U.S.; Clown sighting phenomenon — once a laughing matter — becomes a headache for schools;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Clinton campaign's debate strategy extends far beyond the stage Both Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine had a larger goal in mind than winning their debates: To create a series of compelling sound bites that they planned to weaponize against Donald Trump for the remainder of the campaign. By Abby Phillip  •  Read more » Fox News' Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly trade testy exchanges over Trump interviews The public exchange between the Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly was an unusual breach of interoffice decorum and a sign of some bitter jockeying among the two primtetime stars in the final stretch of the presidential campaign. By Paul Farhi  •  Read more »   Fact Checker: Clinton, Kaine airbrush out inconvenient details about U.S. departure from Iraq The reasons for the U.S. troop departure from Iraq are more complex than the simple story told in the debates. By Glenn Kessler  •  Read more »   The once-celebrated blood-testing company Theranos to close labs, lay off hundreds of workers An open letter from embattled founder Elizabeth Holmes amounts to an epitaph for the once-ballyhooed Silicon Valley start-up that claimed its pinprick blood tests would revolutionize medical diagnostics. By Ariana Eunjung Cha  •  Read more »   2 million under evacuation orders as Hurricane Matthew churns toward Southeast U.S. From Florida to the Carolinas, officials prepared for what could be the most powerful storm to make landfall in the U.S. in more than a decade. The hurricane is expected to approach Florida's east coast tonight. By Mark Berman  •  Read more »   Clown sighting phenomenon — once a laughing matter — becomes a headache for schools Who's afraid of clowns? Turns out a lot of people are. And the flood of social-media messages — many of which have led to school lockdowns and arrests — has some communities on edge. By Joe Heim and T. Rees Shapiro  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   The de-Reaganization of the Republican Party By Dana Milbank  •  Read more »   How Trump 'absolutely' corrupts the GOP By E.J. Dionne Jr.  •  Read more »   A President Trump could destroy the world economy By Editorial Board  •  Read more »   Here's how America should play its winning hand for long-run economic growth By Robert E. Rubin  •  Read more »   America's 'quiet catastrophe': Millions of idle men By George F. Will  •  Read more »   The American chess champion challenging Iran’s hijab fetish By Asra Q. Nomani and Masih Alinejad  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   Accused contractor is suspected in leak of NSA hacking tools The suspect, a Booz Allen Hamilton technology contractor from Maryland, was arrested and charged with stealing classified information. Officials believe he has been "hoarding" sensitive materials for as long as a decade. By Ellen Nakashima, Matt Zapotosky and John Woodrow Cox  •  Read more » Top CIA officers to face questions about brutal interrogations in lawsuit A federal judge ruled that the former head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and the agency's former acting general counsel must submit to depositions about a program that used methods widely condemned as torture. By Greg Miller  •  Read more » So long, Ohio: 2016 puts Pennsylvania on the map Trump and Clinton have visited the commonwealth more times than any other state, putting Pennsylvania — often considered an afterthought among the East Coast cognoscenti — at the center of the electoral universe. By Karen Heller  •  Read more » Record haul for super PACs reaches $1.1 billion due partly to a few big donors Ten individuals and couples contributed almost one-fifth of the money raised through August by super PACs, which have already exceeded the $853 million they collected in the entire 2012 cycle. By Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy  •  Read more » The Fix: Almost every Asian stereotype you can think of, in one Fox News segment There was nothing magical about Jesse Watters's man-on-the-street report from New York's Chinatown neighborhood, in the eyes of many journalists who watched it. By Callum Borchers  •  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 » ‘I will NOT wear a hijab': U.S. chess star refuses to attend world championships in Iran Nazi Paikidze says Iran's hijab law is oppressive. But one of the country's top chess players says a boycott will only hurt women's sports in Iran. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •  Read more » Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize? Here are some possibilities. There's no shoo-in candidate for the prize which will be awarded Friday, but a think tank in Norway has issued a shortlist of front-runners. By Ishaan Tharoor  •  Read more » Justices let murder verdict stand for boy who shot abusive, neo-Nazi dad The Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Joseph Hall, who was 10 when he killed his father, a white supremacist and a leader of Southern California's neo-Nazi movement. By Kristine Guerra  •  Read more » Walmart sees the future of grocery shopping in its parking lots The big-box giant is expanding aggressively into pickup service, which executives believe has a particularly strong appeal for a demographic many retailers are eager to court: millennial moms. By Sarah Halzack  •  Read more » Astros prospect tweets that ESPN shouldn't let women call baseball games During ESPN broadcast of the game between the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets, Brooks Marlow, a 23-year-old minor leaguer, tweeted: "No lady needs to be on ESPN talking during a baseball game." 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