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Good evening. Here’s the latest.
1. The end is near.
If Donald Trump defeats Hillary Clinton, it would be one of the most stunning losses in modern American political history.
Mrs. Clinton’s aides are projecting confidence, but there’s anxiety in her camp. The Democratic nominee holds a clear but narrow lead in polls. She was headed to Cleveland for an appearance with Jay Z.
Mr. Trump was optimistic about his standing in battleground states during a rally in New Hampshire.
As you get ready to vote, we’ve rounded up some highlights from our election coverage. Here’s our best investigative reporting and our deep dives into the candidates’ biographies. And, on a lighter note, three comedians discuss the election on our podcast The Run-Up
2. You wouldn’t know it from the campaign rhetoric, but the American economy is basically healthy.
The country added 161,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.9 percent, according to the latest jobs report. Average hourly earnings were slightly up, too. Above, a job fair in Atlanta.
3. Extremist militias are preparing for the possibility of a “gun grabbing” Clinton presidency.
The Georgia Security Force is one of scores nationwide that have rallied around Mr. Trump. We went to its training camp in the woods near Jackson, Ga.
Members long for an America they believe was stolen from them by liberals, immigrants and “the P.C. crowd.”
“If
the people decide they can no longer suffer the inequities, I’d be with
the people and I’d take my guns up to Washington,” one member said.
4. Two former aides to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey were convicted of conspiracy and wire fraud in a bizarre scheme to close access lanes to the George Washington Bridge. Above, Bridget Anne Kelly, one of the aides.
The snarled traffic was payback against a mayor who had declined to endorse Mr. Christie’s re-election.
The governor maintains that he knew nothing about the closings until they ended. But the trial suggested otherwise.
5. Rolling Stone was found liable in a defamation suit over a discredited article that described a gang rape at the University of Virginia.
The suit was brought by a former dean at the university, Nicole Eramo, above, who said the article had depicted her as the “chief villain” of the story.
The
magazine, which retracted the article, is facing a second lawsuit,
filed by the fraternity whose house was portrayed as the site of the
attack.
6. Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst imprisoned for giving secret documents to Wikileaks, tried to commit suicide again last month.
The attempt came at the beginning of a week of solitary confinement — which was punishment for her first suicide attempt.
Ms. Manning’s 35-year sentence is the longest ever imposed for leaking government secrets.
7. Indonesians took to the streets of Jakarta, the capital, to protest recent remarks by the city’s governor about the Quran.
Indonesia
is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, and the governor
is the first Christian to lead the city in 50 years.
He’s leading in polls ahead of a coming election and remains popular despite the criticism.
8. Among our best-read articles: growing strife among employees at Trader Joe’s.
Customers often praise the grocery store’s prices, wide selection and friendly employees.
But workers in some East Coast stores are complaining of harsh treatment, safety lapses and surveillance.
Thomas
Nagle, above, said he was reprimanded and later fired because managers
judged his smile and demeanor to be insufficiently “genuine.”
9. There are few movies that speak to the American moment as movingly — and with as much idealism — as “Loving,” our critic says.
The film, directed by Jeff Nichols and in theaters now, portrays a mixed-race couple in segregated Virginia in the 1950s.
Ruth
Negga and Joel Edgerton star as Mildred and Richard Loving, who fought
for an ordinary love that became an “indelible story of this country.”
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