CBS News reports: Melania Trump says portions of a People Magazine story alleging a sexual assault by her husband are “false and completely fictionalized.” She is demanding a retraction and apology and threatening to sue the publication. The story was a first-person account by Natasha Stoynoff of an interview she did with Donald and Melania Trump at their home in …

Fox News reports: Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has increased to seven points, as more than half of voters say he is not qualified to be president. That’s according to a just-released national Fox News Poll of likely voters. Clinton receives 45 percent to Trump’s 38 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson is at 7 percent and Green Party candidate Jill …

Politico reports: In his latest, and perhaps most vehement campaign tirade, Donald Trump held his fire when it came to first lady Michelle Obama. And the White House suggested Thursday that Trump should continue to steer clear of the president’s wife, suggesting that an unprecedented attack on the first lady is a surefire way for the GOP nominee’s standing to …

SNORK. AL.com reports: Suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has been asked to turn over his keys and clean out his office. Acting chief justice Lyn Stuart sent two letters to Moore’s home in Gallant (Etowah County) on Monday. In one letter Stuart states that since Moore was recently found guilty of the ethics charges he must contact the court’s …

Vox reports: At a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, Donald Trump fired back against the accusations from women that he had sexually assaulted them. He said the New York Times story claiming he had assaulted a woman on an airplane was a “totally fabricated and false story.” He seemed to imply that a People magazine reporter who accused him …

Early this afternoon Fox News host Lou Dobbs spawned a firestorm of criticism after he retweeted the home address and phone number of one of Trump’s accusers. Just now Dobbs tweeted the above apology with a #MAGA nod to Trump and a link to Politico‘s story about the controversy. At this writing Fox News has not responded to media inquiries …

Politico reports: Donald Trump Jr. on Thursday dismissed accusations that his father had repeatedly groped women as “probably a typical New York Times smear campaign” and asserted that the Republican nominee’s 2005 comments bragging about sexual assault make him “a human.” Responding to a Times report on two women who came forward to accuse Donald Trump of unwanted sexual advances, …

Yesterday afternoon and again today at his rally in West Palm Beach, Donald Trump vowed to sue the New York Times for publishing the accounts of two women who say they were victims of his unwanted sexual advances. Today the Times fires back with a taunting letter in which they say they’d “welcome” the chance to battle Trump in court. …

NPR reports: First Lady Michelle Obama gave a rousing, lengthy speech Thursday, hammering Donald Trump for vulgar comments he has made about women. Campaigning for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, Obama also addressed new allegations that Trump inappropriately touched women. “It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted,” Obama said about Trump’s comments, …

Business Insider reports: Fox Business host Lou Dobbs on Thursday posted the purported phone number and address belonging to one of the women who has accused Donald Trump of unwanted sexual contact. Dobbs, a fierce Trump supporter, retweeted an individual who had posted the purported information of Jessica Leeds. The 74-year-old woman alleged on Wednesday that decades ago Trump groped …

Not even with the room rates slashed by 50%. New York Magazine reports: Last weekend bankers and dignitaries from around the world descended on Washington for the annual World Bank–IMF meetings. But just a few days before the conference, rooms were not only still available at Trump International, they were heavily discounted. On October 2, a deluxe room, with a …

According to Pierson, the woman’s claim that Trump moved the armrest to grope her couldn’t have happened because seats in first class have fixed armrests. Except, as you’ll see, back then they did not. Via Mediaite: The Atlantic‘s Peter Beinart broke into uncontrollable laughter upon hearing Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson go into a convoluted explanation on CNN about how …

The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 6 points in the swing state of Florida, a new poll released Thursday shows. Among likely voters in Florida, Clinton leads Trump 49 percent to 43 percent, with another 7 percent undecided, according to the survey conducted by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative. The Democratic presidential nominee …

The Dallas Morning News reports: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday refused to take up Ken Paxton’s last effort to have his felony indictments thrown out, which means the first-term Republican attorney general will likely face trial as early as next spring. “Today’s ruling marks an end to Mr. Paxton’s almost yearlong attempt to avoid being judged by …

NBC News reports: A judge has found probable cause for a complaint of official misconduct against Gov. Chris Christie related to the George Washington Bridge closure. The case now goes to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, which will determine if the case will lead to an indictment. Attorneys representing Christie declined to comment on the case. It comes weeks after …

Whoa. From the editorial board of the Salt Lake Tribune: It is time to get serious. It has been amusing, to a degree, to watch the circus that was the Republican primary process struggle and fuss and finally produce such a disappointment to be its presidential nominee. And there is no question that there are many Americans who feel lost …

Reuters reports: Bob Dylan, regarded as the voice of a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in a surprise decision that made him the only singer-songwriter to win the award. The 75-year-old Dylan – who won the prize for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” …

The New York Daily News reports: Donald Trump, exposed Wednesday as an alleged serial groper, once said he’d spotted his future girlfriend on an escalator — when she was only 10. The would-be sexist-in-chief made the stomach-turning joke in 1992 when “Entertainment Tonight” taped a Christmas special in Trump Tower. Trump, then 46, makes a brief appearance and asks a …

The Los Angeles Times reports: As polls show that Donald Trump would overwhelmingly win if only men were allowed to vote, the GOP nominee’s supporters have spawned a new Twitter hashtag: #repealthe19th. That’s a reference to the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The Twitter commentary began after Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight published an article Tuesday looking …

Voiceover artist D.C. Douglas has posted a hilarious anti-Trump clip which pretty much sums up the current state of Hair Furor’s campaign. Watch below. You may recall that in 2010 Douglas was fired as the voice of Geico after Breitbart posted a blistering voicemail he left Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks. Breitbart even gave their readers his home phone number as revenge.