I want to be crystal clear: these attacks are garbage.  For Donald J. Trump to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding shows you that there is no low Donald won't go.  —  These smears are completely false, they're offensive to Heidi and me …

Photo of girls holding hands during nap time melts hearts  —  CLARKSDALE, Miss. — A photo taken of two little girls during nap time at their school is melting hearts across the Internet.  —  This sweet picture was taken while the girls were taking a snooze on a mat at the Presbyterian Day School in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Revealed: Donald Trump's Big Plan to Stop a Contested Republican Convention  —  Who are the delegates that could pick the GOP nominee?  —  On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has a clear answer to questions about a contested convention in Cleveland — it's not happening.

Horrific: SUV runs over several people during dispute in Cleveland … WARNING: Some viewers may find parts of this video disturbing  —  CLEVELAND - A Fox 8 viewer captured horrific video of a dispute on Cleveland's east side early Friday morning.  —  The video shows an argument …

Brussels stories: Grief for the lost, hope for the missing  —  (CNN)Two siblings flying to New York.  A Peruvian chef.  A Belgian law student.  —  These are some of the dead and missing in Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels.  —  At least 31 people were killed and 300 wounded …

Thousands sign petition to allow guns at RNC in Cleveland … CLEVELAND- Support is growing for an online petition to allow guns inside Quicken Loans Arena during the Republican National Convention.  —  More than 4,000 people have signed the Change.org petition since it was started two days ago.

Obama Has His Say on Communism, Socialism and Capitalism-They're All the Same  —  Barack Obama told an audience of Argentinian youth that the differences between socialism and capitalism make interesting conversation but just pick whatever works.  The ideological-left US president suddenly doesn't have an affinity for ideology.

Woman accused of having sex with dog in Cherokee Co.  —  A Cherokee Co. woman has been arrested after deputies received videos of her performing sexual acts with a Dachshund.  —  Deputies charged 23-year-old Hannah Marie Haynes of Chesnee with buggery.  —  Investigators say Haynes took …

Liberal Teacher Takes In Muslim Refugee, His Colleague Finds What's Left Of Him  —  A leftist professor decided to put into practice his own liberal “open doors” policy, feeding and housing a poor Muslim refugee in his own home.  However, when his colleague showed up to find out why he wasn't at work …

A Top ISIS Leader Killed in Airstrike, Pentagon Says  —  WASHINGTON — The United States this week killed a top Islamic State commander in Syria as part of a spate of military actions targeting the terrorist group's leadership and explosives caches, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Friday.

Sanders campaign blasts Clinton over Clooney dinner  —  's campaign lashed out at Hillary Clinton  —  on Friday for a lavish fundraising dinner her campaign has planned with actor George Clooney.  —  Clooney and his wife, Amal, are poised to host a pair of dinners with donors next month in California.

The Post-Trump Era  —  This is a wonderful moment to be a conservative.  For decades now the Republican Party has been groaning under the Reagan orthodoxy, which was right for the 1980s but has become increasingly obsolete.  The Reagan worldview was based on the idea that a rising economic tide would lift all boats.

Five arrested in downtown Raleigh protest  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Five people were arrested after protesters blocked North Blount Street in front of the governor's mansion in downtown Raleigh Thursday evening in response to Gov. Pat McCrory signing the state discrimination bill into law Wednesday night.

West Virginia's Joe Manchin Shaken by Hillary Clinton's ‘Horrific’ Coal Comment  —  Joe Manchin was livid.  —  The Democratic senator from West Virginia had seen Hillary Clinton tell a televised town hall audience that if she became president, “we're going to put a lot of coal miners …

BREAKING NEWS: Anti-terror police shoot suspect holding rucksack at tram station in fresh Brussels swoop as two explosions are heard  —  Armed police shot a terror suspect at a Brussels tram station as they launched fresh raids in the Belgian capital in the wake of the suicide attacks on Tuesday.

Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat  —  The two-party system suffocates independent challengers.  I would know.  —  During a recent town hall in Columbus, Ohio, Sen. Bernie Sanders said the unthinkable.  At least, you would have thought he did, judging by the response of several Democratic operatives.

Growing Up in a Bad Neighborhood Does More Harm Than We Thought  —  The neighborhood in which you grow up is a major determinant of your economic success as an adult.  That's been known for a while, but new research suggests that the effects may be much larger than social scientists previously understood.

Conservatives hammer GOP senator over Supreme Court dissent  —  Days after Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) called on the Senate to take up Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court, conservative groups are urging him, in no uncertain terms, to reconsider.