E Minus 8: Federal agents have obtained a search warrant to look at the emails found on a personal computer belonging to disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner. The emails may — or may not — be related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State.

The Feds obtained the computer in their in their investigation of Weiner’s sexting with a 15-year-old girl. He’s the estranged husband of Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin. In one of the craziest presidential elections in U.S. history, a man who once used the internet name “Carlos Danger” to troll for girls has thrown the outcome into doubt.  FBI director James Comey caused an uproar revealing the existence of the emails without saying whether they had any pertinence to the Clinton email investigation. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday that Comey may have made his revelation in an attempt to influence the outcome of the election in violation of federal law.

Hillary Clinton has carried on with her campaign, sticking to political issues and making Donald Trump the central question of the election.

At least 21 million Americans have already voted in the November election. Close to a quarter of those votes have been cast in states that may determine who wins: Florida, Nevada, and Colorado. Hillary Clinton appears to be holding the edge in those early votes, but it remains to be seen whether the latest news about recently discovered emails from her days as Secretary of State will sway the vote.

On the campaign trail in Greeley, Co., Republican Donald Trump continued to question the legitimacy of the election. “Do you think those ballots are properly counted? Do you think?” Trump asked a crowd.

Polling, and sampling at the polls, suggest that the revelations of a trove of emails may not change many minds.

Groper-in-Chief: Former Miss Finland Ninni Laaksonen is the 12^th woman to say she was groped by Donald Trump. The one-time Miss Universe contestant said Trump squeezed her butt 10 years ago, minutes before the two were about appear on the David Letterman Show.

Check: Former international chess champion Garry Kasparov, who once attempted to run for president of Russia, writes in the NY Times that despite what Donald Trump says, US elections are not rigged. “I know a few things about rigged elections,” he writes.

Kasparov says, “In power for 16 years now, Mr. Putin and his global propaganda machine aggressively promote the idea that democracy is a chaotic mess that only the hero Putin can save Russia from falling into. Social media is flooded by Kremlin-funded trolls ranting about the illegitimacy of the American election process and warning of the potential for violence. To have a major party nominee in America repeating this propaganda is beyond Mr. Putin’s wildest dreams. Mr. Trump even echoes Mr. Putin’s authoritarian rationales, presenting himself as the only one who can rescue America.”

World: The medieval Basilica of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy crumbled yesterday in a 6.6 magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Italy in in 36 years. It was the third magnitude 6 or greater earthquake for Italy this year.

Several medieval-era towns suffered serious damage. Giuseppe Pezzanesi, mayor of Tolentino, told the BBC, “The damage is irreparable. There are thousands of people in the streets, terrified, crying. Let’s hope that is an end to it, the people are on their knees psychologically.”

Cubs Fever: The Chicago Cubs squeezed by Cleveland 3-2 last night to win their first World Series game at home in Wrigley Field since 1945. Cleveland leads the series 3-2. Next game in Cleveland tomorrow night.

The Obit Page: Japan’s Prince Mikasa, the younger brother of Emperor Hirohito who fought in World War II and later became a pacifist, died last week at age 100.

He was the first member of the royal family to get a driver’s license and was an advocate of birth control, although he had four kids himself.

Mikasa served in the war under a pseudonym and was shocked at the behavior of Japanese troops in China. Later, as a pacifist, he said, “Let us not believe foreigners who try to tell us there can be any war of righteousness. I make this pacifist confession as a soldier who went to war believing it to be a war for righteousness.”

From the 50: The Oakland Raiders yesterday set an NFL record of 23 penalties in one game for a total loss of 200 yards and they still beat Tampa Bay in overtime, 30-24.

Who says crime doesn’t pay?

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