Lisa BelkinMelania Trump tells Anderson Cooper 2005 tape was 'boy talk'; echoes 'rigged' election claimIn her first interview since a tape was released of Donald Trump talking lewdly about women, Melania Trump described her husband’s words as “boy talk” and said he was “egged on” by then “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush.
- Michael Isikoff‘Obama’s favorite general’ pleads guilty in leak probe
James “Hoss” Cartwright was known as President Obama’s favorite general — a savvy Marine Corps veteran who, as vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, paid regular visits to the White House providing key advice on everything from drone strikes to the new era of cyber warfare.
- Hunter Walker, Sarah Boxer and Andrew RomanoTrump invites mother of Benghazi victim to next debate
Donald Trump invited the mother of a Benghazi victim to sit in a prominent position at the next debate. Pat Smith, the mother of a State Department IT consultant who was killed in the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks, is planning to accept the Republican nominee’s invitation to the debate, which will be held Wednesday night in Las Vegas. During a Monday interview at her home in San Diego, Smith told Yahoo News that the Trump campaign reached out to her earlier that day and invited her to the debate. The Trump campaign confirmed the invitation.
- Michael WalshArizona newspaper responds to threats after Clinton endorsement
The Arizona Republic publicly responded to the deluge of threats it received after supporting Hillary Clinton for president, the first Democratic endorsement in its 125-year history. Mi-Ai Parrish, president of the newspaper, penned a Sunday op-ed explaining what went into the Republic’s decision to break from tradition and how the paper’s journalists go about their jobs. The Republic’s editorial board had argued in many pieces for over a year that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s principles were not actually conservative, and that they were bad for the GOP, Arizona and the United States, she noted.
Yahoo News VideoAndy Borowitz calls Donald Trump’s locker-room excuse ‘bogus’Andy Borowitz of the New Yorker and The Borowitz Report spoke to Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric about Donald Trump’s locker-room talk. He said, “If Donald Trump ever set foot in an actual locker room, I can guarantee you he’d get his ass kicked.”
Yahoo News VideoAndy Borowitz on a Donald Trump networkAndy Borowitz of the New Yorker and The Borowitz Report spoke to Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric about what could be next for Donald Trump after the 2016 election. In response to the news that Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, reportedly had an informal discussion with an investor about a possible Trump TV network, Borowitz said, “There’s money to be made from people’s anger and racism; it will be done.”
Yahoo News VideoAndy Borowitz talks about the role the media has played in Donald Trump’s presidential runAndy Borowitz of the New Yorker and The Borowitz Report spoke to Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric about the role the media has played in bringing attention to Donald Trump. He said, “Donald Trump got way more attention. He got billions of dollars worth of free media.” He continued, “The primary unfolded like a reality show, where you had a huge bunch of people on the island, and Trump’s real goal was to ritually and serially humiliate every one of the people off the island.”
- Yahoo News StaffComing soon: Live updates as Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump face off in third presidential debate
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will square off for their third and final debate on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 9 p.m. ET in Las Vegas. Our Yahoo News team will cover it live all night. Here’s how to tune in and watch with us:
- Colin CampbellTrump has long been making wild claims about election fraud
“Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. Many critics have suggested that Trump is laying the groundwork to contest the election, but these sorts of claims are neither new nor out of character for Trump. The celebrity businessman, who has dabbled in a wide range of conspiracy theories, has contended for years that some elections in the U.S. have been fraudulent.
- Michael WalshSouthern Poverty Law Center: If David Duke’s godson can leave white nationalism, others can too
Derek Black had been primed to follow in his white nationalist father’s footsteps, but he has turned his back on racism with the help of a Jewish friend at college. Black is the son of Don Black, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard who founded the white nationalist website Stormfront, and the godson of David Duke, a former imperial wizard for the Klan and perhaps the best-known white supremacist in the U.S.
- Dylan StablefordThe women who have accused Donald Trump
Donald Trump said during the second presidential debate that his bragging about kissing and touching women without their consent — caught on a hot mic in an explosive 2005 video — was “locker-room talk” and that he never actually groped anyone. “No, I have not,” Trump told Anderson Cooper, the debate’s co-moderator. Trump has denied all of them, claiming their stories are part of a media conspiracy spearheaded by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
- Dylan StablefordTrump TV? Son-in-law reportedly had talk with investor about postelection venture
For months, Donald Trump has denied reports that he is quietly considering the launch of a television network or streaming service should he lose the presidential election. “I have no interest in a media company,” Trump told the Washington Post last month. Kushner is one of Trump’s top campaign advisers.
- Colin CampbellClinton ad compares Trump to Biff Tannen and other movie bullies
Hillary Clinton’s campaign released an unusual but striking TV ad on Monday that labeled Donald Trump “America’s bully.”
Dylan StablefordGiuliani: ‘I believe Donald Trump. I don’t know about the nine women.’Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and one of Donald Trump’s top advisers, says when it comes to sexual assault allegations against the Republican nominee, he believes the candidate but is not ready to believe the multiple women who are accusing him. “I believe my friend Donald Trump when he tells me he didn’t do it,” Giuliani told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” Sunday. “I know Donald.
Dylan StablefordTrump accuses ‘SNL’ of ‘hit job,’ media of ‘rigging election’Donald Trump’s tumultuous week was skewered mercilessly on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” on NBC. And the Republican nominee took to Twitter on Sunday morning to offer his review.
- Matthew DallekRace, gender and the legacy Michelle Obama will leave behind
Historian Robyn Muncy said, “Michelle Obama may be the most effective politician among first ladies since Eleanor Roosevelt.” But how has she pulled it off?
- Caitlin DicksonAnother woman accuses Trump of sexual misconduct
Cathy Heller says Donald Trump tried to kiss her on the mouth without her consent. A 10th woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. Cathy Heller told the Guardian that during her first and only meeting with Donald Trump approximately 20 years ago, the businessman grabbed her and attempted a kiss, from which she recoiled.
- Holly BaileyTrump: ‘We should take a drug test prior to the debate’
Donald Trump suggested that Hillary Clinton might have been on drugs during the second presidential debate and proposed that the candidates take a drug test ahead of their next and final face-off set for Wednesday in Las Vegas. Speaking at the first of two scheduled Saturday rallies in the Northeast, Trump was reading from prepared remarks attacking Clinton for revelations from leaked emails when the Republican presidential nominee, as he is prone to do, went off script. “We are like athletes, [and] athletes, they make them take a drug test.
- Caitlin Dickson#WomenWhoVoteTrump: Female voters to show their support for Trump amid sexual assault allegations
Donald Trump holds a “Women for Trump” sign. This week, amid an avalanche of accusations from women claiming that Donald Trump inappropriately touched, groped, or otherwise harassed them, the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign attempted to prove that “millions of women” are, in fact, voting Trump.
Michael WalshFormer model alleges Trump put hand up her skirt; ‘Apprentice’ star says he groped, kissed herTwo more women came forward Friday with new allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump, one a former model who says the Republican nominee once put his hand up her skirt and the second an “Apprentice” star who charges he kissed and groped her without consent.
- Holly BaileyDonald Trump casts aside teleprompters at rally
Just days after saying he was freed from supposed “shackles,” Donald Trump abruptly removed his teleprompter in the middle of a Friday night rally here, saying it would be “cooler” to speak without them. Appearing in his second rally of the day in this key battleground state, the Republican presidential nominee was delivering prepared remarks attacking Democratic rival Hillary Clinton over a litany of revelations from leaked emailed posted by WikiLeaks. About 20 minutes into his Charlotte appearance, Trump without explanation suddenly leaned forward and physically removed one of the teleprompter screens — prompting a shout of approval from the crowd.
- Michael IsikoffClinton and DNC face new email attacks in wake of WikiLeaks dump
At 7:51 p.m. on Wednesday night, Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile got an odd email from the Gmail account of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. “Donna, some of our less than reliable media people are starting to privately question the Russian hack story we’ve been feeding them about these emails that [WikiLeaks founder Julian] Assange keeps leaking,” it read, according to a copy of the email Brazile shared with Yahoo News. The email was unlike any Podesta would actually write — and for good reason.
- Hunter WalkerDonald Trump’s art of war: His campaign’s plan for dropping political ‘thermo nukes’ and suppressing votes
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to fight fire with fire, as he sees it, in the last 25 days of his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Facing a barrage of separate sexual assault allegations, Trump has responded by waging an intense war against the media, the “power structure” and the Clintons. In a pair of interviews with Yahoo News, a high-level Trump campaign source detailed the aggressive strategy, including the “suppression of votes” by Democratic-leaning groups, for the home stretch of the presidential race.
Caitlin DicksonFormer U.S. intelligence officer: Russia has turned Trump into ‘unwitting asset’Former U.S. intelligence officer Malcolm Nance said he has no doubt that Russia is behind the latest dump of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. “They’ve been put into a position where they can actually carry out the wishes of another power,” he said.
- Amy SullivanOnly Michelle Obama could give that speech
It’s hard to believe, especially after watching her deliver the most powerful speech of this campaign season on Thursday, that there was once a time when Michelle Obama was considered a potential political liability.
