A bottle of flammable liquid was thrown through a window of the Orange County Republican Party headquarters in Hillsborough overnight Jonathan Drew/Associated PressThe US presidential election took another ugly turn yesterday when a Republican campaign office in the swing state of North Carolina was firebombed. An unknown arsonist threw a bottle of flammable liquid through a window of the Orange County Republican Party headquarters in Hillsborough overnight, causing damage to the office and its furniture. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, called the attack “horrific and unacceptable” on Twitter. People were in the building “around the clock”, according to Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the party in North Carolina. “It is a miracle that nobody was killed,” he said, calling the incident…

Source: The Times October 16, 2016 23:43 UTC