It’s Political: Donald Trump may be backing away from one of his most hard-nosed campaign promises. Deporting 11 million illegal immigrants. Asked yesterday on CNN whether Trump would create a “deportation force” to remove 11 million illegal immigrants, Trump’s new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said, “to be determined.”

Trump has never explained how he would deport all those people, or how he would pay for it.

On Saturday Trump told his newly appointed Latino advisory council that he wants to find a “humane and efficient” solution to illegal immigration. That’s something less than kicking them out and building a wall.

Trump has some catching up to do. Nate Silver notes on his FiveThirtyEight blog, that the polls are giving conflicting pictures of where Donald Trump stands with the voters. National polls show Trump having gained maybe two points while state polls say Hillary Clinton has a wider lead. Silver says,

“Overall, Trump has gained slightly in our forecasts: He’s up to a 15 percent chance of winning the Electoral College in our polls-only models, up from a low of 11 percent a week ago. And he’s at 25 percent in polls-plus, up from a low of 21 percent.”

Punch: American boxer Claressa Shields punched her way to a second gold medal in Olympic boxing, becoming the first US boxer male or female ever to do that. She beat the Netherland’s Nouchka Fontijn in a unanimous decision in the women’s middleweight division. She cartwheeled in the ring and ran around with an American flag draped over her.

Shields fought her way out of poverty to get to the Olympic ring. She lived in 11 homes by the time she was 12.

“I want to inspire people,” she told reporters later. “I want to help people. I want to give people just a little bit of hope.”

The Games: The Olympic flame was doused last night in a shower of water as a performer sang in the colorful closing ceremonies. — America’s completely-professional basketball team routed Serbia 96-66.  Kevin Durant scored 30 points. The US has won gold 15 times since 1936, sometimes even fielding amateurs. — In the final medal count, American women beat the men, taking home 61 medals to 55 for the men. They won even more if you count the five mixed events. Women won 27 of the 46 gold medals earned by Americans.

Permawar: Iraq says it hanged 36 Islamic State militants accused of complicity in the 2014 massacre of 1,700 soldiers not far from from Camp Speicher, a former US military base north of Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit. The massacre caused a rise in resistance to ISIS, but the executions may have been the result of public pressure for executions after a massive truck bomb in July killed 324 people in the Karrada shopping district of Baghdad.

Nation: The suspect in the killing of five people in an Alabama home turned himself in, according to authorities. Derrick Dearman, 27, of Leakesville, Miss., is accused of killing five people in their sleep and abducting his former girlfriend.  One of the victims had a three-month old baby, who was not harmed.

Strip Show: A questionable call in a bronze medal wrestling match in Rio ended in an uproar with two Mongolian coaches staging a unique protest.

Mongolian wrestler Mandakhnaran Ganzorig appeared to have beaten Uzbekistan’s Ikhtiyor Navruzov, 7-6 and began to celebrate. But Ganzorig was docked a point for leaving the mat early. In wrestling the last man to score a point in a tie wins, so Navruzov was declared the winner.

Ganzorig fell to the mat in emotional agony. The two Mongolian coaches rushed to the scorer’s table. One pulled off his shirt and shoes and threw them toward the judges. The other stripped down to his underwear. The Brazilian crowd went wild, chanting, “Mon-go-lia! Mon-go-lia!”

Brazilian police had to escort the coaches out of the arena after a performance that would have won gold if they awarded medals for that.

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