Route 29 Batman is killed after his Batmobile breaks down along a Md. highway  —  The Route 29 Batman, whose roadside encounter with Montgomery County police three years ago made him a viral sensation around the world, has died.  —  Lenny B. Robinson, the 51-year-old Maryland man who drove …

‘I am Batman,’ Trump tells boy on helicopter ride  —  Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)A helicopter landed here just after noon on Saturday, causing a short but violent windstorm.  Large trees shivered; small ones bent nearly sideways.  Dust swirled up from the parking lot, stinging the eyes of the onlookers.

Bernie Sanders Has Heard About That Hashtag  —  What is your elevator pitch for socialism?  My elevator pitch is that the United States has a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality where the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent …

Board Unanimously Decides to Decline Jurisdiction in Northwestern Case  —  Washington, D.C. - - In a unanimous decision, the National Labor Relations Board declined to assert jurisdiction in the case involving Northwestern University football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships.

Republicans Against Retirement  —  Something strange is happening in the Republican primary — something strange, that is, besides the Trump phenomenon.  For some reason, just about all the leading candidates other than The Donald have taken a deeply unpopular position, a known political loser, on a major domestic policy issue.

Here's Audio And Video Of Carly Fiorina's Forceful Praise Of Hillary Clinton In 2008  —  Fiorina on Clinton in 2008: “She was a great candidate.  She has helped millions of women all over this country.  Women of any political party owe a debt of gratitude to Hillary Clinton and I will bet that every woman up here agrees with me.”

Tea Party could lose Senate for GOP  —  The bad news for the few moderate Republicans still in Congress is that they face long odds in the fast-approaching 2016 elections.  —  The good news for Republican moderates in Congress is that a difficult 2016 cycle of Senate races now looks likely …

Lord Mandelson's failed ‘mass resignation’ bid to attempt to stop Jeremy Corbyn winning Labour leadership  —  It also emerged that Liz Kendall urged Yvette Cooper to stand down because Andy Burnham is the only candidate who can win - but Miss Cooper refused.

New Clinton email count: 305 documents with potentially classified information  —  More than 300 of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails — or 5.1 percent of those processed so far — have been flagged for potential secret information, the State Department reported to a federal court Monday.

Best-selling children's book that will have YOUR child asleep in minutes  —  FOR every parent blighted with the daily struggle of trying to coax their young child into going to sleep, anything to send them to the land of nod would be a miracle.  —  IG GETTY  —  The Rabbit who wants to fall asleep promises parents a quiet nights kip

Birthers Say These 4 GOP Candidates May Be Ineligible To Be President  —  The birther movement has come home to roost as the Republican presidential primary heats up.  —  In a column published last week on the conspiracy theory website WND, author Jack Cashill noted that questions had been raised …

Bangkok bomb: Deadly blast rocks Thailand capital  —  A bomb has exploded close to a shrine in the centre of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more.  —  A second bomb has been found in the area and made safe, officials say.

Court's Free-Speech Expansion Has Far-Reaching Consequences  —  WASHINGTON — It is not too early to identify the sleeper case of the last Supreme Court term.  In an otherwise minor decision about a municipal sign ordinance, the court in June transformed the First Amendment.

Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal NYT story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads … The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Times in a report this weekend on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos.

With High-Profile Help, Obama Plots Life After Presidency  —  WASHINGTON — The dinner in the private upstairs dining room of the White House went so late that Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn billionaire, finally suggested around midnight that President Obama might like to go to bed.