Donald Trump, Stealing Spotlight With Caustic Comments, Eclipses His Rivals  —  The month of July once held great potential for Republican presidential candidates hoping for momentum to carry them into the first primary debates.  —  Instead, the summer campaign has been dominated by Donald J. Trump …

The Campaign of Deception Against Planned Parenthood  —  A hidden-camera video released last week purported to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue from aborted fetuses.  It shows nothing of the sort.  But it is the latest in a series of unrelenting attacks on Planned Parenthood …

Officials: Sandra Bland spoke of previous suicide attempt  —  The 28-year-old woman who died in the Waller County jail three days after police arrested her in a controversial traffic stop told jailers during her intake that she previously had tried to commit suicide, authorities said Wednesday.

On Friday, I had a meeting in Vienna with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), during which the agency conveyed to the lawmakers that two side deals made between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the IAEA as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will remain secret …

A Brief Theory of Very Serious People  —  Tyler Cowen argues that the concept of “Very Serious People” refers to people who “realize that common sense morality must, to a considerable extent, rule politics.”  I'm not either the originator nor the popularizer of the term, but I think that's wrong.

These Are the Top 20 Cities Americans Are Ditching  —  Soaring costs of living meant residents left New York City and its suburbs in droves  —  New York City, Los Angeles, Honolulu: They're all places you would think would be popular destinations for Americans.

De Blasio Administration Dropping Plan for Uber Cap, for Now  —  The de Blasio administration has backed away from its fight with the app company Uber, agreeing on Wednesday to drop for now its plan to place a cap on the number of vehicles operated by Uber in New York City.

Don't play the race or skinny cards, Ms Minaj - you're just a stroppy little piece of work whose video wasn't as good as Taylor Swift's  —  Superstar rapper Nicki Minaj once worked at a Red Lobster restaurant in the Bronx.  —  She was fired for ‘discourtesy to customers’.

Obama: New citizens can skip pledge to take up arms and defend the U.S.  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Tuesday said it will no longer require incoming U.S. citizens to pledge that they will “bear arms on behalf of the United States” …

Donald Trump's Financial Disclosure Form Has Landed—And It's Huge  —  Donald Trump's personal financial disclosure form is public now, and it's as big as promised.  —  The 92-page report starts with the 515 entities where the Republican presidential candidate has a title (usually president, chairman or both).

Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East? … There was something about Diyaa that his wife's brothers didn't like.  He was a tyrant, they said, who, after 14 years of marriage, wouldn't let their sister, Rana, 31, have her own mobile phone.  He isolated her from friends and family, guarding her jealously.

Dead man with cache of 1,200 guns identified — ‘He was just a loner’  —  A man found dead in a vehicle in a Pacific Palisades neighborhood and later tied to a home where police found a massive cache of firearms was a 60-year-old longtime Los Angeles County resident who mostly kept to himself, according to interviews.