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 …

Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win  —  Bernie Sanders surprises with 41 percent of the vote.  —  Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend — finishing a close second to Hillary Clinton, who won 49 percent.

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.

This Is the Way to Win Elections (But It Makes Governing Harder)  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter  —  This is how you win elections.  But it makes governing harder

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

Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her  —  A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton …

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 …