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.

U.S., world powers reach historic deal with Iran  —  The accord follows 18 days of marathon diplomacy in Vienna — and heralds a summer of political blowback at home.  —  The United States and five other world powers have reached a deal with Iran that would place strict limits …

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.

Pentagon moves to allow transgender troops to serve openly  —  The Pentagon is opening the door for transgender troops to serve in the military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Monday, continuing a wave of expansion in opportunity under President Barack Obama.

Donald Trump Calls in FBI Over Death Threats Involving El Chapo  —  CALLS IN FBI  —  Over Death Threat Involving El Chapo  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Donald Trump tells TMZ he is contacting the FBI to investigate threats just made by a man claiming to be the son of escaped Mexican drug lord El Chapo.

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.

Eric Garner Case Is Settled by New York City for $5.9 Million  —  New York City reached a settlement on Monday with the family of Eric Garner, agreeing to pay $5.9 million to resolve the claim over his killing by the police last July on Staten Island, according to a lawyer representing the family.

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.

Son of Boston Police Captain Arrested as Possible Terrorist  —  The estranged son of a respected Boston police captain was arrested July 4 by FBI agents as part of a counter-terrorism operation against alleged ISIS-inspired domestic terrorists, federal officials told ABC News today.

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 …

17 ways Hillary's big economic speech rehashed Obama  —  Hillary Clinton on Monday delivered a much-publicized speech in which she was supposed to lay out her economic agenda.  In reality, she just rehashed President Obama's.  Her speech ultimately sounded like another Obama State of the Union address …

Sides Dispute Basis of North Carolina Voting Laws as Trial Contesting Them Opens  —  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A trial over North Carolina's voting laws opened in a federal courtroom here on Monday, with civil rights groups and the Justice Department arguing that the state had turned back the clock …