Scott Walker tries to make hay out of heckling incident  —  Scott Walker turned a heckling incident at the Iowa State Fair on Monday into an opportunity to hawk his book and slogan — that he's a man, “unintimidated.”  —  “I am not intimidated by you, sir, or anyone else out there,” Walker said.

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 …

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.”

State Department Finds Thousands of Philippe Reines Emails It Claimed Did Not Exist  —  Earlier this year, Gawker Media sued the State Department over its response to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed in 2013, in which we sought emails exchanged between reporters at 33 news outlets …

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 …

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.

Northwestern Football Players Cannot Form Union, NLRB Rules  —  Northwestern football players get ready for practice on Aug. 17.  —  Photographer: Jeffrey Phelps/AP Photo  —  Unionizing only one school would upset competition, board says  —  NLRB doesn't address whether players are school employees

America's oldest known veteran, Emma Didlake, dies at 110  —  The nation's oldest known veteran, Emma Didlake, died Sunday, a month after meeting President Obama in the White House.  She was 110.  —  Didlake, an African American housewife who joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943, fell ill Sunday morning and suddenly died.

The Republican Party doesn't want to believe its voters agree with Trump.  But they do.  —  Does Donald Trump's appeal have anything to do with his policy positions?  Republican political consultant Matthew Dowd says it doesn't — Trump's rise, he argues, is all personality, no policy:

The Real Argument  —  With all the commentary about the Iran, it is worth noting that there is an argument against the deal.  It's just one that most opponents do feel able or comfortable making publicly.  It goes something like this.  —  The ideal of course is that Iran permanently …

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 …

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 …

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.

Explosion in Bangkok Kills at Least 12  —  BANGKOK — At least 12 people were killed at a major intersection in Bangkok on Monday night after an explosion shook the neighborhood.  The blast occurred in front of the Erawan Shrine, an important tourist attraction in the city's main shopping district.