The Associated Press reports: Hillary Clinton appears on the cusp of a potentially commanding victory over Donald Trump, fueled by solid Democratic turnout in early voting, massive operational advantages and increasing enthusiasm among her supporters. A new Associated Press-GfK poll released Wednesday finds the Democratic nominee has grabbed significant advantages over her Republican rival with just 12 days left before …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: One of Bakker’s guests, End Times author John Shorey, said that President Obama wants to become “the head of the world,” while nefarious elites are manufacturing international crises in order to drive up support for globalism. Such moves, he said, will fulfill biblical prophecies about the creation of a one-world government and the …

Politico reports: Hillary Clinton’s election night celebration will be at the Jacob K. Javits Center on the West Side of Manhattan. Clinton’s campaign sent out a “save the date” to offices on Capitol Hill alerting lawmakers and their aides about the event, noting that they will be sending out “additional information shortly.” The email came from Clinton’s “political team” and …

Via email: Not long ago, North Carolina’s governor, Pat McCrory, signed an important common-sense law stopping men from gaining access to intimate facilities like restrooms and showers that are reserved for girls and women. We strongly applaud Governor McCrory‘s leadership, but the left has gone crazy — targeting him for defeat with hateful, orchestrated attacks. Governor McCrory’s opponent, state Attorney …

The alarm sounds much like a high-pitched air raid siren. Gothamist reports: Long-time Brooklynites may be familiar with the siren noises that resound on Friday evenings in neighborhoods across the borough. This noise, which signals the beginning of Shabbat, gives observant Jews a heads up that it’s time to head home before sundown. The sirens are especially common in neighborhoods …

USA Today reports: As the most caustic campaign in modern American history nears its close, Hillary Clinton has built a formidable lead over Donald Trump approaching 10 percentage points, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. But she faces a deeply divided nation that is alarmed about the prospect of Election Day violence and what may be ahead. A 51% majority …

Crooks & Liars reports: Matt Forney, a self-described alt-right radio host, suggested this week that there would be a “white baby boom” after the November election because “women are having sex dreams” about Donald Trump. In a tweet on Monday, Matt Forney mocked Cosmopolitan writer Laura Beck, who said that allegations about Trump groping women were impacting her sex life. …

The Hill reports: Two of the women accusing former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct ripped into Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after an explosive interview in which Kelly faced off with Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, a former House Speaker and Donald Trump surrogate, accused Kelly of being “fascinated with sex” after she asked about the women who have accused the …

SC Magazine reports: Xiongmai, a Chinese electronics firm, has initiated a product recall, prompted by the large DDoS attack that caused large internet websites such as GitHub, Reddit and Spotify to grind to a halt on the east coast of the US, and mainland Europe this past Friday. The root distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), was believed to be …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Last weekend, Religious Right activist and pseudo-historian David Barton spoke at Harvest New Beginnings church in Illinois, where he absurdly claimed that for the first 200 years of the United States’ existence, the country regularly had 100 percent voter turnout. Barton was making his standard case that Christians have a responsibility to vote …

Deadline reports: Donald Trump’s star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed early Wednesday morning by a man dressed as a city construction worker wielding a sledgehammer and pick-ax. The man, who told Deadline his name was Jamie Otis, said he was trying to extract the star to auction it off and raise funds for the women who …

Yikes: A new poll puts Donald Trump ahead of Hillary Clinton by 2 percentage points in Florida, good news for the GOP nominee, whose campaign has been starved for positive headlines in recent weeks. The Manhattan billionaire leads the former secretary of state among Floridians likely to vote, 45 percent to 43 percent, according to the Bloomberg Politics poll, released …

From the Equal Rights Group of Gibraltar: Today is a happy and long-awaited day for many in Gibraltar. And Equality Rights Group extends a big thanks to all the LGBTI community and also to the very special people who have fought unfailingly alongside us. They are friends of Justice who, despite not being directly affected, have stayed by us in …

Rolling Stone reports: Lady Gaga hitched a ride with James Corden Tuesday in the latest installment of Carpool Karaoke, where the singer also discussed the Super Bowl, recording “Pokerface” and her massive collection of Michael Jackson-worn clothing. Gaga, who recently received her driver’s license for the first time, then takes the wheel of the Carpool Karaoke mobile, but her inability …

Mediaite recaps just one of this morning’s fiery exchanges: “I mean Rudy! I have looked up to you my entire life because you’re so accurate,” said Cuomo as the exchange got heated. “And all of a sudden you’re in Trumpland, and the facts are all over the place.” As Giuliani dug deeper into the rabbit hole to make his case, …

The Huffington Post reports: Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams’ vocal support for Donald Trump is getting even more bizarre. First, he pledged to join a resistance movement and help kill the GOP presidential nominee if he were elected president and behaved like Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Now, he’s shared yet another strange election-related remark: Adams seems to think that the absence …

Yahoo News reports: Hillary Clinton’s campaign is debuting some of her closing arguments in her campaign ads, including a spot that is narrated by Morgan Freeman. Titled “Example,” the spot contrasts Clinton’s career with that of Donald Trump, positioning it as a choice of “who will we entrust our country and their future to.” For example, the ad presents Clinton …

Politico reports: Republicans, on the verge of losing the Senate, are plowing a mammoth $25 million into six races in a last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump from dragging the entire GOP down with him. The investment from Senate Leadership Fund, a powerful super PAC with ties to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, comes as Democrats shift resources from Hillary Clinton’s …

The New York Daily News reports: Here comes the judge — in an opera. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg slips out of her robe into something befitting royalty for her one-night-only performance in the Washington National Opera’s production of Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment” on Nov. 12. The role in this 1840s opera comes as Ginsburg has been …

The Hill reports: Then she starts tearing into vulnerable Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.). “He voted against equal pay for women. Are you f—ing kidding me?” she asks. She adds that Garrett voted against healthcare aid for 9/11 first responders — “total [expletive]” — and expressed opposition to gay congressional candidates. “Scott Garrett pulled the wool over our eyes. And I’m …