Donald Trump: I didn't expect business backlash to be “quite this severe”  —  Shares -  —  On the heels of several major corporations distancing themselves from Donald Trump's various business interests, the Republican presidential candidate admitted Saturday that he didn't think the corporate backlash …

Billy Joel Marries Alexis Roderick in Surprise Wedding at His Estate  —  Surprise!  —  Billy Joel and Alexis Roderick got married on Saturday evening.  —  The couple “surprised guests at their annual July 4th party by exchanging vows in front of their family and close friends,” the singer's spokeswoman said in a statement to PEOPLE.

Hillary Clinton Reporters Kept Behind Moving Rope Line At New Hampshire Parade  —  At the Fourth of July parade Hillary Clinton marched in today in Gorham, New Hampshire, reporters following the candidate were kept — and at moments, dragged — behind an actual moving rope line.

The Supreme Court and the Politics of Fear  —  WHEN he ran for president the second time almost half a century ago, Richard M. Nixon made Earl Warren's Supreme Court a target of his campaign.  It was a brilliant move.  His accusation that the court had tilted “too far in weakening …

???This Week???  Transcript: Gov. Rick Perry  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR “THIS WEEK” ON JULY 5, 2015.  —  GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST: That brings us to our next guest, the longest serving governor in Texas history, now candidate for president.  —  GOV. RICK PERRY (R-TX) …

The New Post-Homophobic Christianity  —  Most Christians are going to adapt to the new America just fine.  —  Since the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized marriage equality in America, some conservative Christians have been downright apoplectic.

China's Unsettling Stock Market Collapse  —  An investor is reflected in a screen showing stock information at a brokerage house in Hefei, Anhui province.  (Reuters)  —  This summer has not been calm for the global economy.  In Europe, a Greek referendum this Sunday may determine whether the country will remain in the eurozone.

Americans Are Blessed with Liberty, but Not Because We Deserve It  —  The American proposition is a theological proposition: “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”  —  Just how radical that idea is is difficult for the 21st-century Western mind to comprehend.

Alligator Attacks And Kills 28-Year-Old Man  —  Investigators, a witness and friends are revealing the harrowing accounts of the first recorded fatal alligator attack in Texas and more about the victim.  —  A justice of the peace tells KFDM News Tommie Woodward, 28, is from St. Louis, but moved to Orange with his twin brother.

GOP punts on Confederate symbolism in Capitol  —  House Republicans are struggling with the question of whether to remove the Confederate image from around the Capitol complex — and they seem in no hurry to commit themselves one way or another.  —  Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson …