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Behold, a Halloween costume almost too good to be true:

When you’re the only one in the office in a costume this morning. #HappyHalloween pic.twitter.com/vJLQ28xizk

— Koch Industries (@Koch_Industries) October 31, 2016

Yes, you're seeing that right. That is indeed one of the Koch brothers — the billionaires known for wielding outsized political influence — dressed up as Darth Vader, a costume Gizmodo pointed out might be "just-a-little-too-on-the-nose."

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FBI Director James Comey reportedly disagreed with the government's decision earlier this month to confirm suspicions that Russia was meddling in the U.S. election, a former FBI official told CNBC on Monday, because it was too close to Election Day. "He believed it to be true," the official said, "but was against putting it out before the election."

Adele's plans for the future include a possible appearance on Broadway and singing until she's 70 — but probably not having another child. In the singer's interview for Vanity Fair's December cover story, she admitted that she is "too scared" to have another child after her first experience with her now 4-year-old son, Angelo. "I had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me," Adele said.

On Monday, North Carolina's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed a federal lawsuit against the state of North Carolina accusing the elections boards of the state and three counties of voter suppression. In the weeks leading up to the election, thousands of voters have been purged from the voter rolls, in many cases due to reports from individuals that campaign mailers sent to certain voters' addresses were returned as undeliverable.

A viral Facebook campaign encouraging users to check in to Standing Rock Indian Reservation in order to confuse or throw off the Morton County Sheriff Department's alleged attempts to geotarget Dakota Access Pipeline protesters is likely nothing more than a hoax, Snopes reports:

Indiana Democratic Senate candidate Evan Bayh was looking at a healthy six-point lead over Republican Rep. Todd Young in Monmouth University's poll in early October. But as November looms, a race that once seemed like a lock for the Democrats now appears to be a dead heat.

Days away from the election, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) suddenly seems eager to embrace bipartisanship. In an interview with Politico published Monday, Issa, who serves as a national security adviser to Donald Trump's campaign, claimed that he would've been just as happy to step in as an adviser for Hillary Clinton's campaign if she'd asked him to. "I would've said the same thing if Hillary Clinton's people had called me the same day. Why wouldn't you?" said Issa, who is fighting to hang onto his seat in a tight race for reelection. Читать дальше...

With the current political climate being what it is, the nation can seem frighteningly, and even dangerously, divided. But let this fact unite us all in agreement: Oregon, Wyoming, Tennessee, Texas, and South Carolina have terrible taste in Halloween candy.

George W. Bush's former Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, ripped FBI director James Comey on CNN and MSNBC on Monday, calling Comey's controversial decision to write Congress about new Hillary Clinton emails "unusual" and possibly even an "error in judgment."

At a National Press Club event in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel admitted that while he thinks Donald Trump's comments about women were "clearly offensive and inappropriate," he's still able to support the Republican candidate because he gets the "big things" right — like trade. "Nobody would suggest that Donald Trump is a humble man," Thiel said. "But the big things he's right about amount to a much-needed dose of humility in our politics."

One of the most famous political speeches in history is actually a masterpiece of historical fiction. On March 20, 44 B.C., Marcus Antonius gave the eulogy at the funeral of slain Roman leader Julius Caesar, riling up the crowd with Caesar's good works and bloody toga, and thus defeating the Roman senators who had stabbed the would-be emperor to death to save the Republic. What most of us know of that speech and that day was written by William Shakespeare — and perhaps Democrats had that speech... Читать дальше...

Another round of hacked Hillary Clinton campaign emails published by WikiLeaks on Monday revealed Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile may have leaked debate questions on more than one occasion. The day before a scheduled CNN Democratic presidential debate between Clinton and her primary opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in Flint, Michigan, Brazile sent an email to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and Clinton director of communications Jennifer Palmieri with an unambiguous subject line... Читать дальше...

There's very little that we actually know about the latest episode in the unending saga of "Hillary Clinton's damn emails" — which is itself a spin-off of the multi-decade saga "The Clinton scandals." All we really know is that the FBI found some emails, which may be relevant to the federal investigation of Hillary Clinton's homebrew email server, on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's closest aide.

Ferociously pumping pompoms among Sexy Where's Waldos and Sexy Marios at Sunday's Denver Broncos game was a rather hilariously out-of-place character:

Bill Murray could hardly contain himself after the Chicago Cubs won Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday night. After the Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians 3-2 for the first World Series game victory at Wrigley in 71 years, the Cubs mega-fan was spotted doing this in the background of Kris Bryant's post-game interview:

Hold onto your Cubs and/or Make America Great Again caps — unless you're a Hillary Clinton supporter or from Ohio, this is some news that might make you feel a little nervous:

As much as Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says she wants FBI Director James Comey to be more transparent about the new developments in the investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails, she isn't sure that's even possible. "I want him to say what he can say, but I'm not sure that's very much," Conway said during a Monday interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

If you're seeking an example of Donald Trump's potentially damaging effect on down-ballot elections, look no further than the 49th District in California, a region that includes parts of San Diego, Orange County, and Camp Pendleton. For over a decade, California's 49th has been a deeply red spot in the liberal state, represented by eight-term congressman Darrell Issa, who hasn't needed to mount an election campaign since he first took office in 2000.

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson and his running mate, William Weld, appear to be running almost parallel campaigns. "We're not scripted at all," Johnson told The New York Times earlier this month. That certainly rings true in their responses to FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress on Friday informing committee chairmen that the FBI had uncovered emails that might be pertinent to Hillary Clinton's use of a private server.

U.S.-backed Iraqi special forces are prepared to enter ISIS-controlled Mosul within "a matter of hours," Iraq's counter-terrorism chief confirmed Monday. "The soldiers of the Counterterrorism Force are advancing very fast. I wouldn't say a matter of days but matter of hours before advancing and [to] start cleansing the city of Mosul from terrorism," General Talib Shegati said, as reported by CNN.

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U.S. stock futures held steady ahead of the start of trading Monday but investors shunned risky assets overseas as polls showed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's lead over her Republican rival, Donald Trump, narrowing slightly as the Nov. 8 presidential election nears. Hillary Clinton appeared to be holding her ground with her fellow Democrats despite potential fallout from renewed scrutiny by FBI agents looking to review emails that could be linked to the private email server she used as secretary of state. Читать дальше...

Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin says she does not know how her emails got on her husband Anthony Weiner's laptop and was baffled by the FBI's recent declaration of that being the case, a person familiar with Abedin's reaction told Politico.

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An ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll released Sunday suggested the presidential race had tightened slightly after FBI Director James Comey told Congress about new emails possibly related to Hillary Clinton's private email server. The poll, conducted partly before and partly after Comey's Friday revelation, showed Clinton's lead over Republican nominee Donald Trump narrowing to just 1 percentage point nationally, down from 2 points just before Comey's letter and 12 points a week earlier. Читать дальше...

The events of the past three days would be comical if the stakes weren't so enormously high.

Recent allegations by the U.S. that Russia is trying to interfere in its presidential election underline a grim but unavoidable point: Whether America likes it or not, it's in a new Cold War with Russia. All of the hallmarks of the first Cold War — the standoffs, the propaganda, the wars of words, the covert actions, and the proxy warfare — are all back. With a vengeance.