Former President George H.W. Bush will be honored during several public and private events in Houston and Washington before his burial Thursday in Texas.
The developments thrust Manafort back into the investigation spotlight, raising new questions about what he knows and what prosecutors say he might be attempting to conceal.
The failed mail bombs put a big exclamation mark onto a series of increasingly extreme events that have become all too normal and commonplace in America.
Millions of voters are neither progressives nor conservatives. It is these independents who will likely decide the outcome of the U.S. mid-term elections.