Iran Nuclear Deal Is Reached With World Powers  —  VIENNA — Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States said they had reached a historic accord on Tuesday to significantly limit Tehran's nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions.

America's Top Union Leader Just Destroyed Scott Walker in Six Words  —  “Scott Walker is a national disgrace,” reads the entirety of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's statement  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is one of the most hardcore right-wing extremists in America.

Statement by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on DOD Transgender Policy  —  Over the last fourteen years of conflict, the Department of Defense has proven itself to be a learning organization.  This is true in war, where we have adapted to counterinsurgency, unmanned systems, and new battlefield requirements such as MRAPs.

Barack Obama's sanctuary country for criminal aliens  —  The debate over illegal immigration erupted again recently after 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle was shot and killed allegedly by seven-time felon and five-time deportee criminal alien Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez in San Francisco.

N.Y. Times stands by Ted Cruz decision  —  The New York Times is standing by its decision to omit Ted Cruz's new memoir from its best-seller list on the grounds that sales were driven by “strategic bulk purchases,” despite the fact that both HarperCollins and Amazon say there is no evidence for that argument.

Report: One-third of vets on pending medical care list already dead  —  An internal Veterans Affairs Department report states that about one-third of the veterans waiting to receive medical care from the agency have already died.  —  A review of veteran death records provided …

Primary Amnesia  —  What the press forgets every election.  —  Getty.  —  SHARES  —  In his classic 1941 short story “Nightfall,” Isaac Asimov imagines a planet (Lagash) with six suns.  Only once every 2,049 years does total darkness fall—and with nightfall comes the appearance of the stars.

Clinton speech react: ‘Is that it?’  —  The Democratic front-runner manages to underwhelm both Wall Street and its reformers in her signature economic policy speech.  —  NEW YORK CITY — Hillary Clinton gave a big economics speech here on Monday and the snap reaction among Wall Street investors …

There Is No Post-Racial America  —  The term post-racial is almost never used in earnest.  Instead it's usually employed by talk-show hosts and news anchors looking to measure progress in the Obama era.  Earnest or not, the questions we ask matter.  As many of our sharper activists and writers …

Paul Krugman Puts Trump On Blast: He's A ‘Loudmouth Racist’ (VIDEO)  —  New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was blunt Monday when he speculated that real estate mogul Donald Trump was polling so well within the GOP presidential field because he's a “loudmouth racist.”

Alabama's chief justice: Satan made Supreme Court ‘destroy the institution of God’ in marriage ruling  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Outspoken Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore told a church gathering on Sunday that the U.S. Supreme Court “destroyed the institution of God …