IF LOOKS COULD KILL Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin in tense G20 standoff as the famously hostile pair fail to reach a breakthrough on Syria  —  Grinning Putin shakes hands with stony-faced Obama after US President was snubbed by Chinese hosts  —  PICTURED

Megan Rapinoe Kneels For Anthem at NWSL Match  —  The 31-year-old from Redding, Calif., displayed support for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick Sunday night, kneeling while the national anthem was played before a Seattle-Chicago match.  —  BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. …

Hillary Clinton Gets Gored  —  Americans of a certain age who follow politics and policy closely still have vivid memories of the 2000 election — bad memories, and not just because the man who lost the popular vote somehow ended up in office.  For the campaign leading up to that end game was nightmarish too.

U.S. investigating potential covert Russian plan to disrupt November elections  —  U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions …

Duterte tells Obama not to question him about killings  —  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned President Barack Obama on Monday not to question him about extrajudicial killings, or “son of a bitch I will swear at you” when they meet in Laos during a regional summit.

Woman Caught on Video Trying to Steal Man's Front Yard Trump Sign — but Karma Is Swift  —  When an Indianapolis man, identified only as Phillip, posted a Donald Trump campaign sign in his front yard, he anticipated some backlash.  —  His concerns turned out to be valid as he said it didn't take long …

Clinton Takes Questions From Press: “How Was Your Labor Day Weekend?”  “Are You Ready?”  —  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greeted the press who are traveling on her new airplane on Monday morning and took a few questions.  —  Clinton, under pressure for not holding …

Obama Plays Down Confrontation With China Over His Plane's Stairs  —  HANGZHOU, China — When Air Force One taxied to a stop here on Saturday afternoon, American and Chinese officials had already engaged in a lengthy, heated dispute over the most mundane of issues: How would the president depart his plane?

Mexicans gave Donald Trump the hostile welcome he deserved  —  After all his lies and poisonous rhetoric about us, he came to Mexico to try to be civil.  But it's too late for that, Donald  —  exico was the focus of the global lens last week thanks to an unexpected and dreadful event …

This study shows American federalism is a total joke  —  Voting for state legislators is dominated by feelings about the president.  —  Republicans dominate America's state governments — even in some of the country's most liberal states.  —  Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio …

Donald Trump Does Detroit  —  So, after weeks of preaching his sinister sermon of black pathology to mostly white audiences as part of his utterly fake “black outreach” — which is in fact the effort of a bigot to disguise his bigotry — Donald Trump finally brought his message before a few mostly black audiences.

80 Percent Captured at Border Set Free in U.S., Says Agent  —  A U.S. Border Patrol agent told Fox News Channel that eight out of ten illegal immigrants who are captured at the border are initially set free into the United States.  —  Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza, acting in his role …

Trump disputes Kaine's claim he didn't know ‘Russia took over Crimea’  —  on Sunday disputed a claim made by Sen. Tim Kaine  —  (D-Va.) regarding the Republican presidential nominee's foreign policy knowledge.  —  “Crooked Hillary's V.P pick said this morning that I was not aware that Russia took over Crimea,” Trump tweeted.

Clown tries to lure kids in Winston-Salem, two clown sightings reported  —  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Winston-Salem police say someone in a clown costume tried to lure kids into the woods Sunday night.  —  The incident happened in the 1200 block of East 29th Street off Hwy. 52 about 8:30 p.m.

The bloody history of Labor Day  —  Most people probably don't think of Labor Day as a holiday commemorating struggle and death.  But that's what it used to be.  —  The period between the Civil War and the Great Depression was a time of massive upheaval: The industrial revolution swept in …

All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup  —  You: doing more with less.  Corporate profits: going strong.  The dirty secret of the jobless recovery. … On a bright spring day  —  in a wisteria-bedecked courtyard full of earnest, if half-drunk, conference attendees, we were commiserating …

Revolution against ‘rich parasites’ at utopian Burning Man Festival as ‘hooligans’ attack luxury camp  —  It is supposed to be a utopian vision of peace and love but this year's Burning Man Festival has been marred by “hooligans” carrying out a “revolution against rich parasites”.

Are baby boomers turning out to be the worst generation?  —  I have seen the best minds of my generation, to steal a phrase from the late Allen Ginsberg, driven to heights of self-absorption, advocating policies that assure the failure of the next.  Nothing so suggests the failure of my generation …