Inside the Failing Mission to Save Donald Trump From Himself  —  Donald J. Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN.  The rattled candidate's advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention.

“Always Correct” Election Predictor Has Donald Trump Defeating Sickly Hillary 51% to 48%  —  Alan Abramowitz's “Crystal Ball” model has Trump defeating sickly Hillary Clinton 51% to 48%.  —  The model gives Trump a 66% chance of winning the election this year.  —  The Examiner reported:

Queens imam shot in the head, another man blasted in the chest in fatal attack near Ozone Park mosque  —  A lone gunman opened fire on a Queens imam walking home from Saturday afternoon prayers and a second man, leaving one of the pair dead and the other critically wounded.

NBC News covers Trump with ‘sarcastic’ tweet  —  NBC Nightly News took a snarky approach to covering Donald Trump  —  's proclamation Friday that he can only lose Pennsylvania “if cheating goes on.”  —  The show's Twitter account tweeted: “NEW: Donald Trump says only way Hillary Clinton

Trump Spox Katrina Pierson: We Weren't in Afghanistan Until Obama Decided to Go In  —  Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson has once again blamed President Obama for something that happened years before he took office.  —  Remember how Pierson blamed Obama for Captain Humayun Khan's death in 2004?

The Perfect G.O.P. Nominee  —  WASHINGTON — SPEAKING of crazy ...  All these woebegone Republicans whining that they can't rally behind their flawed candidate is crazy.  The G.O.P. angst, the gnashing and wailing and searching for last-minute substitutes and exit strategies, is getting old.

App maker: Trump will win election  —  LOS ANGELES — Despite a majority of opinion polls showing the 2016 presidential election going to Democrat Hillary Clinton, a smartphone app developer says his data suggests challenger Donald Trump will be the victor.  —  “Based on the stats we see …

Nancy Pelosi is flooded with ‘sick and obscene’ phone calls after ‘Russian’ hacker posted House Democrats' private numbers  — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned fellow Democrats on Saturday to change their cellphone numbers and not let family members read their text messages

How Trump And Pence Are Doing Their Rallies Is “Totally Unprecedented”  —  CAMBRIDGE, Ohio — In the middle of Mike Pence's stump speech attacking Hillary Clinton and highlighting party unity, a woman near the front of the crowd inside the local civic center repeatedly yelled, “The polls are rigged.

De Niro compares Trump to his ‘Taxi Driver’ character  —  Award winning actor Robert De Niro on Saturday compared Donald Trump  —  to his mentally unstable character Travis Bickle in the 1976 movie “Taxi Driver,” calling the Republican nominee “totally nuts.”

The Garland Pre-Compromise Is Already Sabotaging Clinton's First 100 Days  —  As confidence grows that Trump will lose in November, speculation is already beginning about the first 100 days of a new hypothetical Clinton administration.  Top of the list is filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by the passing of justice Antonin Scalia.

Kenny Baker, actor behind R2-D2, dies  —  The 3ft 8in actor, who starred in six Star Wars films as well as Time Bandits and Flash Gordon, was 83  —  The British actor who played R2-D2 in the Star Wars films has died at the age of 83 after a long illness.  —  Kenny Baker, who was 3ft 8in tall …

The Real Scandal of Hillary Clinton's E-Mails  —  On Wednesday, the conservative group Judicial Watch released two hundred and ninety-six pages of e-mails that Hillary Clinton and her aides at the State Department had exchanged.  Judicial Watch's president has said that they came …

Finally SOMEONE Who Agrees With Trump Claim That Obama Founded ISIS  —  Donald Trump has been taking a lot of flak for his claim that Barack Obama is the “founder of ISIS,” a claim he later doubled-down on (before later insisting it was sarcasm).  It's led to another string of bad media …

Trump and the exploitation of right rage: It's not the economy, stupid, that's attracting angry white men to him  —  The brainwashing of Trump loyalists by right wing media is on display every day — and it's disturbing VIDEO  —  We've all seen the videos replayed over and over again on social media and cable news.

Switzerland Salez attack: Knifeman sets fire to Swiss train  —  A knifeman has set fire to a train in north-eastern Switzerland, leaving six people in hospital with stab wounds and burns, police say.  —  The suspect, described as a Swiss man aged 27, was also taken to hospital …