Donald Trump gives out Lindsey Graham's cell phone number  —  If Lindsey Graham has to change cellphone numbers, he has Donald Trump to thank.  —  On Tuesday, Trump ramped up his attacks on the South Carolina senator — who made headlines Monday for calling the Donald a “jackass” — and even gave out Graham's private phone number.

Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It  —  I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.  —  Though I hadn't touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting …

Shock Video Catches Another Top Planned Parenthood Doctor Selling Body Parts of Aborted Babies  —  A second shocking video in as many weeks has been released showing a top Planned Parenthood official discussing and arranging the sale of body parts of aborted babies.

John Kasich: A Jeb Bush In Jon Huntsman Clothing  —  It reads like a dream résumé for a Republican presidential candidate: nine-term congressman, six-year Fox News host and now twice-elected governor of a crucial swing state.  His record puts him snugly in the mainstream of the Republican Party.

Op-Ed Republicans' ‘Munich’ fallacy  —  You have to feel sorry for Munich.  Home to museums, universities, beer halls and one spectacular glockenspiel, it gets international recognition instead for a misbegotten 1938 summit conference in which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain …

Obama orders flags to half staff at White House for Chattanooga victims  —  (CNN)The White House and U.S. Capitol both lowered flags to half staff by Tuesday afternoon, after they were out of sync Tuesday in their tributes to the five U.S. service members who were slain by a gunman in Chattanooga last week.

New Details Released in Sandra Bland's Death in Texas Jail  —  HEMPSTEAD, Tex. — The authorities on Monday offered new details of the final hours of a Chicago-area woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Texas three days after she was arrested during a traffic stop.

LAPD finds 1,200 guns, two tons of ammo in dead man's Pacific Palisades home  —  It wasn't what police expected to find when they searched a man's Pacific Palisades home last week.  —  More than 1,200 guns were strewn about the Palisades Drive house and garage, police said.

Alito: Gay Marriage Ruling Could Allow Judges To End Minimum Wage Laws  —  According to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the court's recent decision legalizing same-sex marriage laid the legal groundwork for a libertarian justice to eliminate minimum wage laws, or a socialist justice to say that there is a right to an annual income.

House to vote on blocking federal grants to sanctuary cities  —  The House will vote this week on legislation that would deny funding to “sanctuary cities” that have policies designed to shelter illegal immigrants from deportation.  —  Sanctuary cities largely refuse to cooperate with federal immigration policies.

The Great Lost Huckabee Constituency  —  Something I was vaguely aware of but hadn't really focused on came very much to my attention yesterday while we were taping this week's WaMo BloggingheadsTV/podcast with guest Matt Cooper of Newsweek.  Matt wrote a column that actually got Trump's personal attention …

Arctic ice ‘grew by a third’ after cool summer in 2013  —  The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by around a third after an unusually cool summer in 2013.  —  Researchers say the growth continued in 2014 and more than compensated for losses recorded in the three previous years.

Sousaphonist serenades Confederate flag supporters in Columbia  —  'I didn't really know how to show my opposition, so that was my way of doing it,' says musician  —  Saturday afternoon, as defenders of the Confederate flag assembled in Columbia to protest the flag's removal from Statehouse grounds …

ISIS Transforming Into Functioning State That Uses Terror as Tool  —  ISTANBUL — The Islamic State uses terror to force obedience and frighten enemies.  It has seized territory, destroyed antiquities, slaughtered minorities, forced women into sexual slavery and turned children into killers.