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.

Early Returns Show Greeks Reject Terms of E.U. Bailout  —  ATHENS — Greek voters appeared to decisively reject a bailout deal offered by the country's creditors two weeks ago, an outcome that could redefine the country's place in Europe and shake the Continent's financial stability.

???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.

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.

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 …

Paris When It Sizzles  —  PARIS — THE turquoise tranquillity of the Côtes d'Azur was rocked a couple of times during the Cannes Lions Festival, the advertising world's rosé-soaked answer to the Cannes Film Festival.  —  Al Gore snubbed Monica Lewinsky.

3 killed, 27 wounded over eight hours in Chicago, including boy, 7  —  After a relatively quiet start to the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago, a burst of gun violence overnight left three dead and 27 people wounded in just eight hours, including a 7-year-old boy killed after returning from a celebration.

The Americans are coming!  Some in a Texas county fear an Obama-led U.S. military invasion.  —  BASTROP, Texas — The office of the Bastrop County Republican Party is in an old lumber mill on Main Street, with peeling brown paint and a sign out front that captures the party's feelings about the Obama administration: “WISE UP AMERICA!”

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 …