GOP Quickly Unifies Around Trump; Clinton Still Has Modest Lead  —  PPP's new national poll finds that Republicans have quickly unified around Donald Trump, making the Presidential race more competitive than it has previously been perceived to be.  —  Hillary Clinton leads Trump 42-38 …

Bernie Sanders's Next Revolution  —  How can he continue to harness the enthusiasm that defined his candidacy beyond the time-limited scope of a campaign?  —  Bernie Sanders spent the better part of three decades in national politics trying to bring ideas that would strike most of the democratic world …

Hillary Clinton, the First ‘E.T. Candidate,’ Has U.F.O. Fans in Thrall  —  When Jimmy Kimmel asked Hillary Clinton in a late-night TV interview about U.F.O.s, she quickly corrected his terminology.  —  “You know, there's a new name,” Mrs. Clinton said in the March appearance.

From playboy to president?  Trump's past crude sex talk collides with his White House bid.  —  Over 15 years, radio shock jock Howard Stern and his buddy Donald Trump periodically carried on like towel-snapping “bros” in a locker room, rating women's tops and bottoms, debating whether oral sex is …

The First Sitting U.S. President to Visit Hiroshima  —  President Obama will visit Hiroshima, Japan after the conclusion of the G-7 Summit later this month.  —  There has been intense interest on both sides of the Pacific in the possibility of a presidential visit to Hiroshima …

A Secret Section of Central Park Reopens  —  Since the days when Fiorello H. La Guardia was mayor and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, it has been a well-kept secret of New York City — to people, if not to migrating birds, the occasional wandering coyote and annoying, invasive plants like wisteria …

Donald Trump Says Sadiq Khan, New London Mayor, Could Be Exception to His Muslim Ban  —  Mr. Trump said he was “happy” that London had elected its first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, and suggested that he would be among the exceptions to his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States.

Jon Stewart on Donald Trump: ‘He is a man-baby’  —  What Jon Stewart did on his visit to the White House  —  To find more of “The Axe Files with David Axelrod,” check out podcast.cnn.com/the-axe-files-david- axelrod/.  —  (CNN)Jon Stewart launched a stinging new round of criticism …

Military Times survey: Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by a huge margin  —  In a new survey of American military personnel, Donald Trump emerged as active-duty service members' preference to become the next U.S. president, topping Hillary Clinton by more than a 2-to-1 margin.

Paul Ryan On Palin: “I Don't Really Worry Too Much About Outside Agitators”  —  “Look, people in Wisconsin know me well, I really don't have anything to say only that my focus is on the people of this district and unifying the Republican Party on a core set of principles.”  —  Win Mcnamee / Getty Images

White House seeks to contain fallout from aide's comments  —  Ben Rhodes might have a “mind meld” with President Obama, but he is causing headaches for the White House.  —  Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, managed in a recent New York Times Magazine profile to undercut …

‘Trump wall’ draws crowd and controversy at UW  —  A group of University of Washington students showed their support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by building a “Trump wall” on the school's Red Square.  —  Two days after Donald Trump made his first campaign visit to Washington state …

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Aftermath of Munich knife attack shows bloodied footprints  —  Play!  —  Auto update  —  Off  —  ‘No indication’ of Islamic extremist motive  —  Bavaria's top security official says investigators have no indications that the suspect in a stabbing at a train station had an Islamic extremist motive.

Trump expands the battleground...to Utah?  —  Historically from 1952 to 2012, the likely range of movement in two-candidate margin from this time until Election Day has been 10 percentage points, which is the standard deviation from the 16 past elections.  Therefore, even though Clinton currently leads …

Democrats see Clinton and Warren as dream team  —  Democrats are openly hoping that Hillary Clinton  —  as her running mate.  —  Amid concerns that supporters of Bernie Sanders  —  will choose to stay home on Election Day, a number of Democrats see a Clinton-Warren alliance …

A depressingly accurate 29-word description of the dismal state of our politics  —  Marty Baron, my boss and the editor of the Washington Post, gave a commencement speech at Temple University over the weekend.  It was on the fungible nature of truth in our modern world and how everyone is not …

Our National Dumpster Fire  —  It was almost as if Donald Trump wanted to give Republican voters one last look at what they would be getting if they chose to nominate him as the head of their party—as if he wanted to show officeholders who would endorse him exactly what they'd have to explain …

Hillary: The Conservative Hope  —  The right can survive liberal presidents.  Trump will kill its best ideas for a generation.  —  The best hope for what's left of a serious conservative movement in America is the election in November of a Democratic president, held in check by a Republican Congress.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Bashes Trump In Expletive-Filled Rant  —  “He is the hated gringo because he's attacking all of us.  He's offending all of us,” Fox said.  —  Kick Ass Politics  —  Former Mexican President Vicente Fox had harsh words for Donald Trump in a podcast set to be posted on Tuesday.

Donald Trump, in Switch, Turns to Republican Party for Fund-Raising Help  —  Donald J. Trump took steps to appropriate much of the Republican National Committee's financial and political infrastructure for his presidential campaign on Monday, amid signs that he and the party would lag dangerously behind …

Cliven Bundy suing Obama, Nevada officials  —  Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who led an armed standoff over grazing fees on federal lands, is suing President Obama and Nevada officials in hopes of getting charges against him dismissed.  —  Bundy's lawyer will file the complaint Tuesday against Obama …