Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Evening Edition: Trump declares war on GOP, says 'shackles have been taken off'

The Fix: Trump is blowing up the Republican Party; The 2016 electoral map is rapidly slipping away from Donald Trump; Five questions that will decide the electoral fate of the GOP; By 2025, most of Trump's tax cuts would go to the wealthiest 1 percent; 'Get out. Get out now.': N.C. governor urges residents to flee lowlands below dam; Horrific rains and ocean surge: Hurricane Matthew by the numbers; Federal appeals court rules the structure of CFPB is unconstitutional; Taking no chances: Obama slips off his wedding ring as he shakes hands with public; Donald Trump, unplugged as ever ; Fact Checker: Hillary Clinton and the Kathy Shelton rape case; The Fix: Why Clinton's Lincoln defense of her leaked Wall Street comments falls flat; What they said, what they meant; Facebook, Twitter and Instagram helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, ACLU says; Comcast is being punished for charging customers for channels they didn’t want; Gunmen attack Shiite worshipers in Kabul, at least 14 dead; Pluto gets a buddy: A new dwarf planet is discovered in our solar system; Five dead teens, a stolen police car and the 'most horrific' crash in decades; This father put his children through college. But a prosecutor says he ‘executed’ one of them.; Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life?;
 
Evening Edition
The day's most important stories
 
 
Trump declares war on GOP, says ‘shackles have been taken off’
In a blizzard of tweets one month before the election, the Republican nominee lashed out at party leaders, calling House Speaker Paul Ryan "weak and ineffective" and "disloyal" after Ryan said he would no longer campaign for Trump.
The Fix: Trump is blowing up the Republican Party
What appears to be happening is the Breitbart-ization of Trump's campaign, adopting a strategy of full-on attack against everyone who doesn't see the world as he does — including Republicans.
 
The 2016 electoral map is rapidly slipping away from Donald Trump
Donald Trump's path to 270 votes is so narrow you almost can't see it anymore.
 
Five questions that will decide the electoral fate of the GOP
Republican strategists know with certainty that there will be political casualties from Trump's ongoing collapse. They just don't know where or how many.
 
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By 2025, most of Trump's tax cuts would go to the wealthiest 1 percent
Two new analyses are a reminder that the election puts serious money at stake for many American households.
 
'Get out. Get out now.': N.C. governor urges residents to flee lowlands below dam
Widespread flooding and "extremely dangerous" conditions will persist at least until Friday, Gov. Pat McCrory said. At least 14 deaths in the state have been blamed on Hurricane Matthew, and officials fear a major dam may fail while straining to hold back water levels swollen by the storm.
 
Horrific rains and ocean surge: Hurricane Matthew by the numbers
From Haiti to North Carolina, the hurricane left a trail of destruction. In the U.S., staggering quantities of rain and the resulting flooding caused the greatest damage.
 
Federal appeals court rules the structure of CFPB is unconstitutional
But the court decided against shutting down the agency, ruling that it should be restructured so that the director could be removed by the president at will.
 
Taking no chances: Obama slips off his wedding ring as he shakes hands with public
Even with all the Secret Service agents around him, the president is extra careful when it comes to his personal valuables. The Obamas recently celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary.
 
Donald Trump, unplugged as ever
Read the annotated transcript from the Republican nominee's appearance in Ambridge, Pa. — his first rally since the debate and since The Post released the lewd video on Friday.
 
Fact Checker: Hillary Clinton and the Kathy Shelton rape case
The rape victim is angry at Clinton for requesting a psychiatric exam. But court records show the request was denied.
 
The Fix: Why Clinton's Lincoln defense of her leaked Wall Street comments falls flat
Trump is going to press this attack hard. As he should.
 
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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.
 
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, ACLU says
The companies reportedly provided data to a company that delivers surveillance information to law enforcement agencies. The firms have since sought to restrict access to the data.
 
Comcast is being punished for charging customers for channels they didn’t want
The $2.3 million fine is one of the biggest civil penalties ever levied on a cable company.
 
Gunmen attack Shiite worshipers in Kabul, at least 14 dead
Security officials had warned that violence could erupt during some of the holiest days for Shiite Muslims.
 
Pluto gets a buddy: A new dwarf planet is discovered in our solar system
The planet, known for now as 2014 UZ224, is about the size Iowa and twice as distant as Pluto. It takes more than 1,000 years to orbit the sun.
 
Five dead teens, a stolen police car and the 'most horrific' crash in decades
While a Vermont police officer tried to save five teenagers from a burning car after a wrong-way driver crashed into them, a man stole his police cruiser, hitting seven more cars and sending five other people to the hospital.
 
This father put his children through college. But a prosecutor says he ‘executed’ one of them.
Nothing, it seemed, could explain why Jamal Mansour — a father of four girls and two boys — would allegedly shoot the youngest of his children twice in the head.
 
Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life?
The counterculture was never more lucrative than this weekend, when McCartney, Dylan, the Rolling Stones and more performed at a three-night festival that drew 75,000 people every night.
 
 
     
 
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