Trump blasts Hugh Hewitt as ‘a third-rate radio announcer’  —  Donald Trump is blasting Hugh Hewitt after stumbling over foreign policy questions in an interview with the conservative radio host.  —  “[He is] a third-rate radio announcer,” Trump told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Friday morning.

Hillary Clinton's Favorable Rating One of Her Worst  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dogged by continued scrutiny of her email practices as secretary of state, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's favorability with the American public has sunk to one of its lowest levels in Gallup's 23-year trend.

Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit.  —  In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China's Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head.  As the girl's grandmother shouted, “Stop!  You've hit a child!” …

Sen. Ben Cardin: I will vote against the Iran deal  —  The writer represents Maryland in the U.S. Senate, where he is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  —  Throughout the process of evaluating the Iran nuclear agreement, I continuously returned to two fundamental questions …

YouGov poll: 64% want a border fence with Mexico — including pluralities of Dems, blacks, and Hispanics  —  Build it high, build it far, build it fast.  But build it.  —  You know who agrees with me on that?  Everyone.  Yes, even Hispanics.  —  Democrats split 44/43 in favor, the closest any group comes to outright opposition.

Same-sex marriage still confounding the Republican field  —  Remember when a Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage was really going to settle the issue for Republicans so they could focus on other things?  Yeah, not so much, reports Trip Gabriel.

Burning Man founder: 'Black folks don't like to camp as much as white folks'  —  Larry Harvey discusses lack of racial diversity and the allegation that Silicon Valley bosses in luxury camps are destroying the festival's egalitarian ethos  —  urning Man founder Larry Harvey has countered criticism …

Marion County judge refuses to perform same-sex marriages  —  Oregon Judge refuses to do same-sex marriages  —  PORTLAND, Ore. - A Marion County judge has refused to perform same-sex marriages and has asked his clerks to refer couples seeking same-sex marriages to other county judges.

Insiders: Scott Walker the biggest loser of the summer  —  <p>It's been a cruel summer for Scott Walker and Martin O'Malley.</p><p> That's the assessment of this week's POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top activists, operatives and strategists in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Cover Story: Kanye's 2020 Vision  —  “Kanye West's announcement of his intention to seek the Presidency reminds us that it's not too early to start thinking about the 2020 campaign.  (2016's already old hat by now, anyway),” Barry Blitt says about “2020 Vision,” his cover for next week's issue.

The horrific results of Obama's failure in Syria  —  One little boy in a red T-shirt, lying face down, drowned, on a Turkish beach, is a tragedy.  More than 200,000 dead in Syria, 4 million fleeing refugees and 7.6 million displaced from their homes are statistics.