Evening Edition: Trump has reached his ceiling, with little or no room to grow

Clinton's email problems just came roaring back; Chuck Schumer is focusing on the big prize: Senate majority leader; The job no girl had ever held ; Touchy, toxic and taboo: The politics of being a Trump supporter in college; Police chiefs group apologizes for 'historical mistreatment' of minorities; Iraqi forces launch their most ambitious fight against Islamic State; Four maps that explain the chaos of the Middle East; The Fix: It's getting very, very hard to see how Trump wins; Howard Stern won’t replay old Donald Trump interviews: ‘It would be a betrayal’; The Fix: Trump's Bill Clinton strategy is going very poorly; What they said, what they meant; 'Guns don't kill people, toddlers do': The new gun-control PSA focused on children; Refrigeration really does ruin tomatoes, according to science; Pepsi wants to make its sodas better for you — eventually; A man called police to help his distressed wife. They wound up killing her.;   The day's most important stories   Trump has reached his ceiling, with little or no room to grow On the surface, the Republican nominee is surprisingly close to Hillary Clinton in the Washington Post-ABC News survey: He trails by just four points. But he is actually in a particularly poor position to expand his support. By James Hohmann  •  Read more » Clinton's email problems just came roaring back Monday's revelation that Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy asked the FBI to ease up on classification decisions adds more evidence to the "where there's smoke, there's fire" argument that Republicans have long made about Hillary Clinton's email setup. By Chris Cillizza  •  Read more »   Chuck Schumer is focusing on the big prize: Senate majority leader The New York senator's success depends on how well Clinton does leading the ticket, possibly bringing along enough Democrats to seal the majority. Clinton's success would then depend on her old colleague's stewardship of the Senate. By Ed O'Keefe and Paul Kane  •  Read more »   The job no girl had ever held Hillary Rodham was 16 when she first ran for president, despite a boy telling her she was "really stupid" if she thought a girl could win. She didn't, but her years at the Illinois high school shaped her future. By Dan Zak  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Touchy, toxic and taboo: The politics of being a Trump supporter in college The age of Trump has complicated a rite of passage for many young conservatives, splitting college Republican clubs nationwide and turning those willing to stand up for Trump into targets for criticism and ridicule. By Robert Samuels  •  Read more »   Police chiefs group apologizes for 'historical mistreatment' of minorities The president of America's largest police organization issued a formal apology to the nation's minority population "for the actions of the past and the role that our profession has played in society's historical mistreatment of communities of color." By Tom Jackman  •  Read more »   Iraqi forces launch their most ambitious fight against Islamic State By sunrise, hundreds of Kurdish soldiers, known as peshmerga, were advancing in gun trucks and armored vehicles. But their movement was slowed by booby traps and roadside bombs, officers said. By Loveday Morris and Kareem Fahim  •  Read more »   Four maps that explain the chaos of the Middle East The shared historical experiences of Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya have left them at risk of violent collapse. By Nick Danforth  •  Read more »   The Fix: It's getting very, very hard to see how Trump wins States that have no business being competitive — Missouri, Alaska, Utah, to name three — are suddenly within the margin of error in credible polls. By Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   Howard Stern won’t replay old Donald Trump interviews: ‘It would be a betrayal’ The radio host and longtime Hillary Clinton supporter said he got Trump to talk about sex and rate women in order to entertain audiences. By Elahe Izadi  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   The Fix: Trump's Bill Clinton strategy is going very poorly Two-thirds say Bill Clinton's misdeeds aren't a legitimate campaign issue. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   What they said, what they meant Sign up to have The Fix's Aaron Blake text you the highlights of the final debate as it unfolds Wednesday night. Read more »   'Guns don't kill people, toddlers do': The new gun-control PSA focused on children The satirical ad by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has introduced a solution for ending gun-related deaths that you've probably never considered: Cracking down on America's toddlers. By Peter Holley  •  Read more »   Refrigeration really does ruin tomatoes, according to science Don't let your fruits become "insipid fruits." By Sarah Kaplan  •  Read more »   Pepsi wants to make its sodas better for you — eventually PepsiCo's chief executive said at least two-thirds of the company's beverages will contain 100 calories or less per 12-ounce serving by 2025. By Thomas Heath  •  Read more »   A man called police to help his distressed wife. They wound up killing her. "Shoot me! Shoot me! Kill me," she shouted while pointing a gun at Austin police. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? 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