Via Mediaite: Mr. Mayor has been going to bat for his longtime pal Donald Trump in just about every conceivable media arena, and recently seemed to slip in a bit of surprising information to Martha MacCallum of Fox News. At the conclusion of an interview on October 26 about the presidential election, Giuliani (while speaking about FBI Director Jim Comey) …

Kurt Eichenwald reports at Newsweek: Trump has been surrounded by advisors and associates with economic and familial links to Russia. The publicized connections and contacts between former campaign manager Paul Manafort with Ukraine have raised concerns. Former Trump advisor Carter Page is being probed by American and European intelligence on allegations that he engaged in back-channel discussions with Russian government …

NBC News reports: The U.S. government believes hackers from Russia or elsewhere may try to undermine next week’s presidential election and is mounting an unprecedented effort to counter their cyber meddling, American officials told NBC News. The effort is being coordinated by the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, but reaches across the government to include the CIA, …

Via Politico: President Barack Obama should promise the American people that he will not offer a pardon to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for any crime she might be charged with, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday night, “whether she’s elected or not.” Giuliani, a former U.S. attorney and associate attorney general, appeared on Fox News’s “Hannity” Thursday …

Four million views in one day. The Verge recaps: The latest trailer for Wonder Woman just landed, and here we see Diana (Gal Gadot) looking back on how ugly a world at war can be. Here, she sees men invade Themyscira, and feels the pull to help stop “the war to end all wars.” Unsurprisingly, she’s more than ready for …

Reuters reports: The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt the presidential election, people with knowledge of the matter said. U.S. Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, …

The Austin Statesman reports: Joined Thursday by Republican officials from eight other states, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton urged a federal appeals court to reinstate a Mississippi law that had been struck down as discriminatory against gay and transgender people. The Mississippi law, Paxton told the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a legal brief, was intended to protect …

You’ll note that the ad shows Hillary coughing and features very unflattering photos much like the one used in the attack on Ted Cruz’s wife. Via TIME: In a new ad released Thursday, Trump’s campaign highlights the FBI’s announcement that it found emails relevant to the investigation of Clinton’s private email server on a computer belonging to Weiner, the estranged …

A French court has ruled it a criminal offense to call somebody a homophobe. Laure Pora, the former head of Paris ACT UP, has been fined $2500 for using the word on a poster of La Manif Pour Tous president Ludovine Rochere, seen above marching in NOM’s 2014 hate parade in Washington DC. Gay Star News reports: In 2013, ACT …

Remember before Trump when elections didn’t include daily calls for people to be murdered, executed, or assassinated? CNN reports: Eric Trump said on Thursday that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke deserves “a bullet.” “Ross, it’s disgusting and by the way, if I said exactly what you said, I’d get killed for it but I think I’ll say it …

ABC News reports: An elementary school in New York has canceled its mock presidential election after teachers and staff raised concerns about kids repeating “negative rhetoric about minorities,” according to the school’s principal. “Teachers have said they’ve heard some kids in the cafeteria chanting ‘Trump! Trump! Trump!’ or saying they don’t want Muslims here,” said Glen Rogers, principal of Jericho …

But only if Hillary wins, of course. The Hill reports: The conservative group Heritage Action is pushing Republican senators to keep the Supreme Court at eight justices if Democrat Hillary Clinton is elected president. In a Thursday morning briefing at the Heritage Foundation’s Washington headquarters on Capitol Hill, the group said Republicans should embrace the idea of leaving the Supreme …

Via Mediaite: Republican strategist Dallas Woodhouse illustrated his argument that Hillary Clinton‘s had engaged in criminal conduct Thursday by taking out a pair of handcuffs and holding them up during an MSNBC interview. Woodhouse, the executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, defended the state party from the allegation that they were trying to suppress the vote. “We don’t …

From woman whose husband is the undisputed king of cyber-trolling. Talking Points Memo reports: In her first appearance on the campaign trail since the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump touched only lightly on her husband’s policies, focusing instead on her family and her plans to fight bullying on social media if she becomes first lady. “I will be an advocate …

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports: Between requests for prayers for the sick and a notice for an upcoming chastity luncheon, a newsletter from a Catholic church in Old Town that doubles as an election-day polling site included a flier that told parishioners they’ll go to hell if they vote for Democrats. Two Sundays later, the message had changed: Satan was …

Raw Story reports: Fox News anchor Bret Baier admitted on Thursday that he had been wrong when he reported that Hillary Clinton would “likely” be indicted by federal authorities, a claim that sent conservative websites into a frenzy. “I want to be clear — I want to be clear about this,” he explained. “I pressed the sources again and again …

Grammy-nominated composer Lucian Piane, who has produced for RuPaul and served as a celebrity judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race, has raised eyebrows for weeks with his vehement defense of Donald Trump. But for the last 24 hours Piane has been on a Twitter rampage, calling the Clintons “murderous,” President Obama a “shameful idiot,” and pinning a tweet to the top …

Via Mediaite: Things got feisty on CNN’s New Day when Chris Cuomo and Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway faced off on Thursday in a heated interview. As they talked about Trump steadying himself during a campaign rally last night, Cuomo asked Conway about why the mogul has such a hard time controlling his mouth before he runs into trouble. …

“Are you fed up with sexual weirdness and anti-Christian bigotry being packaged and sold to our children as ‘inclusion’ and ‘civil rights’? Especially when it’s done in the name of ‘preventing bullying’? Well, if Hillary Clinton becomes president, she has a plan to take deceptive propaganda to the next level. And it’s all Donald Trump’s fault, according to Hillary’s cronies. …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: On Tuesday, evangelist Franklin Graham joined a “Pray and Vote” broadcast hosted by the American Family Association, where he claimed that conservative Christians are “on the precipice of losing the United States of America.” “We’re going to lose this country,” he said, if conservatives evangelicals don’t get involved in political activism or show …