15,000 government emails revealed in Ashley Madison leak  —  Thousands of clients using the affair-oriented Ashley Madison website listed email addresses registered to the White House, top federal agencies and military branches, a data dump by hackers revealed.

Act Two of the Trump Epic  —  We've gone far enough now with the Trump political phenomenon to know that it is no mere or momentary matter of name recognition which has placed him as the top contender for the Republican nomination, as bizarre an eventuality as that might appear.

CNN/ORC Poll: Donald Trump now competitive in general election  —  Washington (CNN)Since announcing his campaign in late June, Donald Trump has quickly leapt to the top of the Republican field, leading recent polls nationally, in Iowa and in New Hampshire.  And now, for the first time in CNN/ORC polling …

The Donald Trump Conversation: Murdoch, Ailes, NBC and the Rush of Being TV's “Ratings Machine”  —  In his first magazine cover interview and photo shoot as the leading Republican, the reality TV presidential candidate lets loose on Hillary's email scandal ("Watergate on steroids"), Bill Cosby …

Classified emails from Clinton aides kick-started FBI probe, candidate downplays controversy  —  EXCLUSIVE: An email from a top Clinton adviser containing classified military intelligence information, and one from a top aide containing classified information about the Benghazi terror attack …

AP Exclusive: UN to let Iran inspect alleged nuke work site  —  1 photo  —  VIENNA (AP) — Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work …

7th Shocking Video Catches Planned Parenthood Harvesting Brain of Aborted Baby Who Was Still Alive  —  The organization that has released six videos exposing the scandal of Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies and their body parts has released a new undercover video today with another shocking discovery.

A Word from Yvonne Craig's Family  —  For those who have known her personally, you already know what a down to earth, most exceptional person she was, so I'm sure you can understand this loss has touched all of our lives.  —  Yvonne was a very private person, so from the onset of her battle with cancer …

Did Black Lives Matter Organizer Shaun King Mislead Oprah Winfrey By Pretending To Be Biracial?  —  An investigative blogger has accused Shaun King, a key figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, of misleading media icon Oprah Winfrey by pretending to be biracial in order to qualify for an …

Mike Huckabee blunders his way through Israel press conference  —  Republican presidential candidate calls Russia ‘the Soviet Union’ and implies that the West Bank borders a hostile state rather than Jordan  —  Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee delivered a confused …

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green Split: Couple Has Separated After 11 Years Together  —  Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are going forward as solo acts.  After 11 years together, five of them as a married couple, “Megan has separated from Brian,” an insider reveals exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.

Hillary Clinton Aide Palmieri on E-Mail: 'She Didn't Really Think It Through'  —  “I've encountered this a lot in politics where people think that the answer is a lot more complicated than it really is,” the Democratic front-runner's spokeswoman says.  —  Hillary Clinton's communications director …

Fayette County house from ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ up for sale  —  Home for sale, dungeon not included.  —  The owners of a Fayette County house that appeared in the 1991 thriller “The Silence of the Lambs” are looking to sell.  —  Scott and Barbara Lloyd's three-story Victorian near Perryopolis …

EXCLUSIVE: Priest admits sex with minor, says teen ‘wanted’ it  —  In an extraordinary admission of wrongdoing, a priest sought by authorities in New Jersey has acknowledged engaging in a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old boy, but he deflected blame for the incident by saying the teen “wanted” it and had “evil in his mind.”

Hamas claims to nab Israeli spy dolphin  —  Islamist group's naval unit says it captured mammal equipped with espionage equipment, including cameras  —  Hamas claims to have captured a dolphin that was spying for Israel, Army Radio reported Wednesday.  —  The dolphin was said to have been equipped …

Tennessee courts reverse ban on ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’  —  On Tuesday afternoon I told you that court officials in Tennessee had replaced the words “Mother” and “Father” on court documents with the gender-neutral terms “Parent 1” and “Parent 2”.  —  A few hours after my column was published …