Evening Edition: Clinton holds clear advantage in new poll of battleground states

'I need a favor': FBI official at center of alleged Clinton email 'quid pro quo' speaks out; For young black activists, an urgent task: persuading their peers to vote; Escaping North Korea for a life of online sex acts ; Tough resistance from Islamic State slows Iraqi advance on Mosul; The number of police officers killed by suspects declined last year; Trump doesn't hate all media. He just has terrible taste.; Melania Trump takes a page from Hillary Clinton's playbook; Obama: Trump is 'whining before the game is even over'; The Fix: The GOP is trying to put out a 'rigged' fire that it helped start; PowerPost: Trump's path to an electoral college win is non-existent; What they said, what they meant; Samsung is setting up booths at airports to exchange banned phones; A black pedestrian was stopped by police. A bystander recorded his ‘humiliating’ arrest.; Flint schools are failing to serve children poisoned by lead, lawsuit says; Europe presses harder on countries to take back deported migrants; Leave it to a Canadian ad campaign to deliver the most inspiring message of this U.S. election; Tupac nominated for Rock Hall of Fame. Expect even more rap artists in the future.; He was 7 when he was murdered. Eight decades later, he finally has a gravestone.;   The day's most important stories   Clinton holds clear advantage in new poll of battleground states Hillary Clinton holds a decisive advantage over Donald Trump in the competition for votes in the electoral college, leading in enough states to put her comfortably over the 270 majority needed to win in November, according to a new SurveyMonkey poll of 15 battleground states conducted with The Washington Post. By Dan Balz and Scott Clement  •  Read more » 'I need a favor': FBI official at center of alleged Clinton email 'quid pro quo' speaks out Brian McCauley, who acknowledged he offered to do a favor in exchange for another, said once he realized a State Department official wanted him to change the classification of an email about Benghazi, he immediately said no. By Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »   For young black activists, an urgent task: persuading their peers to vote The Clinton campaign, which has sought to reassemble the Obama coalition, has struggled to connect with a key piece of it: voters under 30. By Vanessa Williams  •  Read more »   Escaping North Korea for a life of online sex acts Thousands of North Korean women who have been sold to Chinese husbands are forced to try to make money behind closed doors, only to hope they can someday flee to Thailand or South Korea. By Anna Fifield  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Tough resistance from Islamic State slows Iraqi advance on Mosul Iraqi Kurdish forces advancing towards the northern city of Mosul paused on the second day of their long-awaited offensive after the Islamic State put up tougher than expected resistance in villages east of the city. By Loveday Morris and Kareem Fahim  •  Read more »   The number of police officers killed by suspects declined last year But preliminary statistics show that so far this year, more officers have been fatally shot than during all of last year. By Mark Berman  •  Read more »   Trump doesn't hate all media. He just has terrible taste. Of course the candidate endorsed by the National Enquirer loves the conspiracy theories of Alex Jones. By Margaret Sullivan  •  Read more »   Melania Trump takes a page from Hillary Clinton's playbook A reluctant campaigner, Donald Trump's wife is now in a well-worn role for a candidate's spouse: Cleanup. By Karen Tumulty  •  Read more »   Obama: Trump is 'whining before the game is even over' The president said the GOP candidate's claims of election rigging undermine America's democracy. By Greg Jaffe and David Nakamura  •  Read more »   The Fix: The GOP is trying to put out a 'rigged' fire that it helped start Republicans are trying to stamp out a fire for which they provided the kindling. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   PowerPost: Trump's path to an electoral college win is non-existent Now it's all about Clinton's margin of victory. By Stuart Rothenberg  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   What they said, what they meant Sign up to have The Fix's Aaron Blake text you the highlights of the final debate as it unfolds Wednesday night. Read more »   Samsung is setting up booths at airports to exchange banned phones The Transportation Department has banned the Note 7 from all flights, so Samsung will offer customers the option of getting a different model before they catch their plane. The company hasn't released a list of the airports that will have the booths. By Hayley Tsukayama  •  Read more »   A black pedestrian was stopped by police. A bystander recorded his ‘humiliating’ arrest. A seven-minute video of a tense exchange that led to an arrest has gone viral after the bystander uploaded it to YouTube. By Amy B Wang  •  Read more »   Flint schools are failing to serve children poisoned by lead, lawsuit says The schools are not meeting their obligation to screen children for lead exposure or to provide services and interventions that could make a difference in their ability to learn, the lawsuit says. By Emma Brown  •  Read more »   Europe presses harder on countries to take back deported migrants As the continent reels from a historic rush of migrants, its leaders are searching for new ways to reverse the flow by stepping up deportations and offering incentives to countries that accept the refugees. By Michael Birnbaum and Annabell Van den Berghe  •  Read more »   Leave it to a Canadian ad campaign to deliver the most inspiring message of this U.S. election Canada wants America to know it's still great. By Colby Itkowitz  •  Read more »   Tupac nominated for Rock Hall of Fame. Expect even more rap artists in the future. Rap is still relatively young and more titans of the form — those who broke new ground and took it mainstream — are just now becoming eligible for induction into the institution. By Elahe Izadi  •  Read more »   He was 7 when he was murdered. Eight decades later, he finally has a gravestone. Richard Streicher Jr. was beaten and stabbed to death in Ypsilanti, Mich., in March 1935, and his killer was never caught. His grave was left unmarked, a town historian said, because of fears the nature of the crime would bring unwanted attention. By Sarah Larimer  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? 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