Graham on Trump: He came in like a ‘wrecking ball’  —  (CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham says Donald Trump is a “wrecking ball” who has put the Republican Party's future on the line with his controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants.  —  “I think he's hijacked the debate.

The Dream World of the Southern Republicans  —  UNLIKE previous Alabama governors, Robert J. Bentley is not a fount of oratory.  Nor is he a champion of “kinder and gentler.”  His dyspeptic refusal to accept federal funds for Medicaid expansion, in a state where more than one million …

All the Views Unfit to Print … I'm sure the late, great Ms. Ivins would be shaking her head at a bizarre controversy involving a New England newspaper that has been humiliated because of its nonsensical 2013 decision to provide a forum to far-right views.  Hopefully, as a result of this controversy …

Bill Cosby's wife says accusers ‘consented’ to drugs and sex  —  Bill Cosby's wife knows her husband is a serial philanderer, but believes his scores of accusers consented to drugs and sex, two confidants of the couple say.  —  Last week's revelation that Cosby admitted during a deposition …

APNewsBreak: Diplomats: Iran announcement planned Monday  —  2 photos  —  VIENNA (AP) — Negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks plan to announce on Monday that they have reached agreement on a historic deal capping nearly a decade of diplomacy that would curb the country's atomic program …

Germany doesn't want to save Greece.  It seems to want to humiliate Greece.  —  Greece has offered an almost unconditional surrender on its bailout, but Germany might not accept anything less than a Carthaginian peace.  In other words, a deal that not only forces Athens to submit, but also humiliates it in the process.

Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold, is loathed, threatened and an outcast, but still can't wait to get back on job  —  The most infamous cop in the city — parked in a desk job amid probes into Eric Garner's death — can't wait to get back on the job.

The Right Way to Remember the Confederacy  —  The indelibly tainted battle flag came down in South Carolina, but in context, other Confederate monuments can help teach history for all Americans  —  In June of 1865, Confederate Gen. Joseph Shelby and about a thousand of his cavalrymen rode …

By day, at heart of counter-terror policing.  And by night, preacher of extremism  —  Government watchdog, which inspects police forces' readiness for terrorism, employed preacher of extremism  —  The Government watchdog which inspects police forces' readiness for terrorism admitted …

???This Week???  Transcript: Carly Fiorina  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR “THIS WEEK” ON JULY 12, 2015.  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: That's going to bring us to a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez.  —  Thank you for joining us.  —  You just saw that optimism in Iran.

An opportunity gamed away  —  For a county in the Deep South that reaped millions from casino business, poverty is still its spin of the wheel  —  Her one-story house was slumping inch by inch, day by day, into the wet ground of the Mississippi Delta.  Rot climbed up the wooden beams and mildew crept across the ceiling.