First on CNN: Walmart to stop selling Confederate flag merchandise  —  (CNN)Walmart, the country's largest retailer, will remove all Confederate flag merchandise from its stores, the company told CNN Monday.  —  The announcement is the latest indication that the flag, a symbol of the slave-holding South …

Hillary Clinton is going to lose: She doesn't even see the frustrated progressive wave that will nominate Bernie Sanders  —  Clinton's positioning on TPP is way too cute.  When it passes with Dems' implicit support, grass roots will explode  —  Hillary Clinton went to New York's Roosevelt Island earlier …

The Roberts Court's Surprising Move Leftward  —  This term so far shows potential for a greater percentage of liberal decisions than any since 1969.  —  Decisions … The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has been a conservative court.

KFC ‘Fried Rat’ Is In Fact Chicken, Lab Test Confirms  —  It doesn't look appetizing, but it's definitely chicken.  —  Last week, KFC was forced to confront a customer's accusations that he'd been served a fried rat in a three-piece meal at a Los Angeles store.

Diddy Arrested — FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT with UCLA Football Coach  —  10:02 PM PT — Diddy was released after posting $50,000 bail.  According to the university, Diddy was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of making terrorist threats and one count of battery.

Fox & Friends Co-Host Pete Hegseth Hits Man with Axe  —  No idea how we missed this, but here it goes: During last Sunday's broadcast of Fox & Friends, co-host Pete Hegseth tossed an axe to tease an upcoming segment on timbersports, missed the target, and hit a marching band percussionist standing in the distance.

Composer James Horner Dies in Plane Crash: Hollywood Reacts  —  For his work on the 1997 best picture winner Titanic, directed by James Cameron, Horner captured the Oscar for original dramatic score, and he nabbed another Academy Award for original song (shared with lyricist Will Jennings) …

Is Barack Obama correct that mass killings don't happen in other countries?  —  Stewart Watson, right, comforts Maranda Mincey at the sidewalk memorial at the “Mother” Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., on June 19, 2015.  A gunman killed nine worshippers there the previous day.

More work, less welfare  —  After six years of a recovery that has failed to meaningfully help working-class Americans, our nation is facing a crisis of entrenched poverty and declining opportunity.  —  Despite claims that the economy has come roaring back, gross domestic product growth remains anemic …

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announces that he has ‘advanced’ cancer  —  Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday that he has been diagnosed with “a very advanced and very aggressive” form of cancer.  —  His wife Yumi, his daughters and sons-in-law and his young granddaughter were in the room …

Obama scrambles for votes on fast-track authority  —  President Obama scrambled for votes Monday as Democratic support trickled in for his trade agenda, despite strong pressure from unions.  —  Labor groups led by the AFL-CIO are furiously lobbying Democrats to oppose fast-track authority …

‘Clinton Cash’ author demolishes Hillary's self-defense  —  Grave incompetence or brazen dishonesty?  —  Those are the only two conclusions one can reasonably come to after reviewing Hillary Clinton's stunning Sunday interview on local New Hampshire TV.  —  When WMUR local TV host Josh …

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Iran's Forces and U.S. Share a Base in Iraq  —  The U.S. military and Iranian-backed Shiite militias are getting closer and closer in Iraq, even sharing a base, while Iran uses those militias to expand its influence in Iraq and fight alongside the Bashar al-Assad regime in neighboring Syria.