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 …

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.

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.

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” …

McDonald's Could Offer All-Day Breakfast Nationwide in October  —  Results in test markets have been encouraging, memo says  —  McDonald's Corp. could start offering all-day breakfast nationwide in October, just months after it began testing the idea, according to a memo sent to U.S. franchisees and employees on Tuesday.

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.

Europe to America: Your love of air-conditioning is stupid  —  The weather in Washington, D.C., and Berlin, Germany, has been pretty similar recently.  There is one striking difference between the two capitals, though: Whereas many Americans would probably never consider living or working …