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.

Obama lowers White House flag  —  President Obama has ordered flags at the White House and other public buildings to fly at half-staff after mounting criticism over the delay in honoring five armed forces members killed last week by a gunman.  —  Obama's proclamation calls for the flags …

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 …

Second secretly recorded Planned Parenthood video fuels storm  —  A second secretly recorded video released by an anti-abortion rights group appears to show an official from Planned Parenthood negotiating prices for selling fetal tissue.  —  The new video from the Center for Medical Progress highlights …

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 …

Apple Reports 38% Rise in Profit as iPhone Sales Surge  —  Apple's profit soared 38 percent and revenue rose 33 percent in its fiscal third quarter, as sales of iPhones continued to surge.  —  On Tuesday, the company, based in Cupertino, Calif., reported net income of $10.7 billion …

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 …

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.

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 …

Emma Thompson: the acting industry is more sexist today than it was in my youth  —  “I don't think there's any appreciable improvement and I think that for women, the question of how they are supposed to look is worse than it was even when I was young.  So, no, I am not impressed at all”

The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town  —  The shrubbery stirs in the breeze, which carries the odor of crushed asphalt.  —  Yellow paint is chipping off the curbs.  —  A single orange traffic cone sits in the revolving door that no longer revolves …