Evening Edition: Speaker Ryan says he will not defend or campaign for Trump

The Fix: Even Trump's campaign manager is struggling to defend him; The Fix: Trump's backers have been reduced to suggesting groping may not be sexual assault; The Daily 202: How the GOP became the debate's biggest loser; 2 body-language experts analyze the debate; When Trump went low, Steve Bannon went even lower; Trump wanted Bill Clinton's accusers in his family box but was thwarted; Floodwaters rise in N.C., threatening thousands downstream; Missiles from rebel-held Yemen territory fired at U.S. Navy destroyer, Saudi military base; Turkey's Kurds are in the crosshairs as a government crackdown widens; How the 'Today' show handled Billy Bush's suspension on the air; Filthy! Farcical! Furious! Three days of must-see campaign craziness.; Actress in 2005 video: 'Too many people in power … abuse their position'; Muslims light up Twitter after Trump says they must 'report when they see something going on'; The Fix: Bill Clinton accuser claims conservative Breitbart News paid for her to be at debate; What they said, what they meant; A Saudi teen flirts online with a young Calif. woman — and ends up in jail; A white man asked his black neighbor to 'learn your manners.' The response has gone viral.; The debate over 'The Birth of a Nation' is over: Audiences weren't interested;   The day's most important stories   Speaker Ryan says he will not defend or campaign for Trump The move underscores the dilemma the party faces: Republicans can remain in line with their nominee, which will please their base but could alienate swing voters critical to maintaining their hold on Congress, or renounce him and offend those eager for a direct confrontation with Hillary Clinton and her husband. By Kelsey Snell, Juliet Eilperin and Mike DeBonis  •  Read more » The Fix: Even Trump's campaign manager is struggling to defend him The Trump campaign is all over the place right now. And that includes the person running it. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   The Fix: Trump's backers have been reduced to suggesting groping may not be sexual assault Anderson Cooper said Donald Trump was describing sexual assault in a 2005 video. Trump backers say it's not so clear. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   The Daily 202: How the GOP became the debate's biggest loser Donald Trump showed that he is willing to go down in flames, and he is happy to take down-ballot Republicans with him. By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   2 body-language experts analyze the debate Freed from their podiums, the candidates roamed the stage. Here's what their nonverbal cues indicated. By Kevin Uhrmacher and Lazaro Gamio  •  Read more »   When Trump went low, Steve Bannon went even lower COLUMN | The Trump campaign chief executive and head honcho of Breitbart is to thank for much of the nasty, truth-averse, no-holds-barred tone that has taken hold. By Margaret Sullivan  •  Read more »   Trump wanted Bill Clinton's accusers in his family box but was thwarted Donald Trump's campaign sought to intimidate Hillary Clinton and embarrass her husband by seating the women near the stage, four people involved in the discussions said. By Robert Costa, Dan Balz and Philip Rucker  •  Read more »   Floodwaters rise in N.C., threatening thousands downstream Rivers are rising to record crests after more than 17 inches of rain fell during Hurricane Matthew. Helicopters yanked stranded residents from rooftops in Robeson County, where at least 1,000 people were stranded. By Angela Fritz, Chico Harlan and Mark Berman  •  Read more »   Missiles from rebel-held Yemen territory fired at U.S. Navy destroyer, Saudi military base Both missiles splashed down in the Red Sea before reaching the USS Mason, officials said. The attack comes after Houthi rebels claimed a significant attack on an Emirati vessel. By Dan Lamothe  •  Read more »   Turkey's Kurds are in the crosshairs as a government crackdown widens Officials have arrested Kurdish leaders and shuttered pro-Kurdish media outlets in recent weeks, exercising emergency powers put in place after a failed coup in July. By Erin Cunningham  •  Read more »   How the 'Today' show handled Billy Bush's suspension on the air NBC had no choice — it had to address his absence. So co-anchors Al Roker and Tamron Hall announced the suspension in the 9 a.m. hour before turning to coverage of Sunday night's debate. By Emily Yahr  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Filthy! Farcical! Furious! Three days of must-see campaign craziness. Your TV and the nation erupted in a weekend-long BREAKING NEWS riot, something you sometimes wished you could turn off but certainly couldn't look away from. By Hank Stuever  •  Read more »   Actress in 2005 video: 'Too many people in power … abuse their position' Arianne Zucker was the soap opera star Donald Trump hugged making his hot-mic comments. By Emily Heil  •  Read more »   Muslims light up Twitter after Trump says they must 'report when they see something going on' The candidate's answer to a question about Islamophobia prompted #MuslimsReportStuff. By Sarah Pulliam Bailey  •  Read more »   The Fix: Bill Clinton accuser claims conservative Breitbart News paid for her to be at debate If the news site paid for her travel to support the Trump campaign, it could violate campaign finance laws. 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 »   A Saudi teen flirts online with a young Calif. woman — and ends up in jail In the religious conservative kingdom, the video exchanges between the two prompted a crackdown by the strict religious authorities. By Sudarsan Raghavan  •  Read more »   A white man asked his black neighbor to 'learn your manners.' The response has gone viral. The recipient said what irked him most was the threat of involving the New York Police Department for something that could have been solved with a neighborly knock on the door. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •  Read more »   The debate over 'The Birth of a Nation' is over: Audiences weren't interested If the movie had done well, we might have spent months debating the filmmaker's troubling past. 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