How Jeb and the GOP got trumped  —  The establishment wanted a sweet '16, not a 17-candidate pileup.  Here's what happened.  —  SHARES  —  Jeb Bush, the man who would be front-runner, was as surprised as anybody when Donald Trump jumped into the 2016 presidential race in June.

The Official GOP Debate Drinking Game Rules  —  On Thursday, August 6th, in Cleveland, Fox is hosting the first of many debates between candidates for the Republican Party presidential nomination.  —  Actually there will be two debates.  One is for the top 10 poll performers …

Russia hacks Pentagon computers: NBC, citing sources  —  NBC News is reporting Russia has hacked computers at the Pentagon, with CNBC's Sue Herera.  —  U.S. officials tell NBC News that Russia launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon's Joint Staff unclassified email system …

Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux — Surprise, We're Married!!!  (PHOTOS)  —  JENNIFER ANISTON & JUSTIN THEROUX  —  SURPRISE ... WE'RE HITCHED!!  —  8/6/2015 7:08 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux had a surprise wedding at their Bel Air mansion last night …

Before Main Republican Debate, Bottom 7 Contenders Put on Brave Faces  —  CLEVELAND — They called it the undercard.  The kiddie table.  The happy hour debate.  —  The wry and self-deprecating nicknames coined by the seven presidential candidates bumped from the main Republican debate …

Head of nuclear agency speaks to Senate committee on nuclear deal  —  The head of the international organization that is the linchpin of the Iran nuclear deal told a Senate committee Wednesday that he cannot divulge confidential details of its arrangement to examine Iran's nuclear research …

Donald Trump's Six Stages Of Doom  —  The recent polling surge by Donald Trump has launched a thousand stories about Trump's “unprecedented campaign.”  But it's nothing all that unusual: Similar surges occurred for almost every Republican candidate four years ago, including Herman Cain …

Chuck Schumer Planning To Break With Obama, Oppose Iran Deal  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  Senior Enterprise Editor, The Huffington Post  —  Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the chamber's third-ranking Democrat …

Mystery solved: Fiorina's closing statement found in printer  —  A staffer for Sen. Rand Paul's (Ky.) presidential campaign says he found the closing statement from a fellow Republican candidate left in a hotel printer ahead of Thursday night's highly-anticipated GOP debate.

Socialism Crumbles In Venezuela, But Democrats Think It's a Great Idea  —  Socialism must be the number one folly in the history of the human race.  People keep trying it, and it keeps collapsing ignominiously.  Yet leftists never give up.  It is as though a guy stood in his yard throwing …

GOP Debate: Rick Perry's Campaign Denies He Said ‘Ronald Raven’  —  Did Rick Perry just have another ‘oops’ moment?  —  During FOX News pre-debate forum featuring seven candidates who didn't qualify for the 9 p.m. GOP presidential debate, Perry was asked a question on illegal immigration.

Jared Leto's Lawyer Strenuously Objects To Claims That Her Client Has A Large — Yes, Large — Penis  —  On Tuesday, Allison S. Hart of Lavely & Singer, the prominent entertainment law firm, sent a letter threatening legal action against Lipstick Alley, a celebrity gossip site featuring message boards …

Bernie Sanders Takes on Clinton Welfare Legacy as He Woos Iowa Unions  —  Bernie Sanders says both Clintons made a mistake on welfare reform.  —  In an phone interview Thursday with Bloomberg, the Democratic presidential candidate said that history will not look kindly on the 1996 overhaul …

50 Years After the Voting Rights Act, We Still Have Work to Do … Fifty years ago today, because of the sacrifice of countless men and women, that right was secured for more Americans.  —  On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law …

Republican debate: Trump attacks women, Bush talks Iraq and NSA fight breaks out - live updates  —  The candidates are fielding questions about Iran, with Rand Paul rolling out Reagan on the alter.  —  “I'm a Reagan conservative, and Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets.

I—A NOISELESS FLASH  —  At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place …