Local Homeowners Defend Texas Cops Who Brutalized Black Teens At Pool Party  —  The police's brutal treatment of black teens attending a pool party in McKinney, Texas has sparked a nationwide outrage.  The video shows officer Eric Casebolt grabbing 15-year-old Dajerria Becton …

The Note: What Scott Walker Said In Iowa … NOTABLES  —WALKER WOULDN'T RULE OUT RE-INVASION OF IRAQ: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he wouldn't rule out a full-blown re-invasion of Iraq if he were to become the next commander-in-chief.  The likely Republican presidential candidate …

Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare  —  The Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance in the Supreme Court for the second time in three years, but the public has rendered a judgment ahead of the court's ruling.  By a margin of 55 percent to 38 percent, more people say the court …

Scandals only make the Clintons stronger  —  The Republican plan to defeat Hillary Clinton is doomed.  It's time to go easy on her.  —  Lead image by AP Photo.  —  One has to wonder: When Republicans gathered earlier this year to scheme the defeat of Hillary Clinton, who was the genius who stood up and said, “I know.

Employee probed as possible accomplice in jailbreak  —  A female prison worker was interrogated Sunday as a possible accomplice in the Hollywood-style escape of two killers from an upstate penitentiary, sources told The Post.  —  “It's an employee being questioned,” a high-level source said …

Kalief Browder, 1993-2015  —  Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime.  He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.

On talk circuit, George W. Bush makes millions but few waves  —  Toward the end of his presidency, George W. Bush told Robert Draper, reporting for a book called Dead Certain, that he intended after vacating the Oval Office to “replenish the ol' coffers.”  He said he could make “ridiculous” money on the lecture circuit.

Turkey election: ruling party on course to lose majority  —  Recep Tayyip Erdoan's Justice and Development party is projected to win 41% of vote - meaning it will need a coalition partner to form a government  —  Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, suffered his most significant electoral defeat …

NJSP fire tear gas into angry Summer Jam concert crowd  —  Concert fans threw bottles at State Police officers on a phalanx defense positions outside the MetLife gate at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Sunday evening.  This is raw video of an arrest.  VIDEO BY CHRIS JORDAN  —  CONNECT

Which GOP governor can make best economic case in '16?  —  Seven governors are among the possible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, and all will be making their state economic records a pivotal part of their campaign pitch.  —  “If you are a governor who has been able …

The Awkward Moment Between Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister … President Obama will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the G7 Summit in Germany today to discuss the fight against ISIS.  But there was an awkward moment between the two leaders ahead of their meeting.