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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.