Clinton trounces Trump in Miami-Dade, new poll shows  —  Part of Clinton's support comes from an unlikely source  —  She's drawing about one-fifth of Republican voters  —  Trump leads among Cuban Americans, but not by a lot  —  More Videos  —  Why a wonky delegate rule will help Donald Trump, explained by Monty Python

Ben Carson, a Trump emissary, requests a pre-meeting with Speaker Ryan  —  A top emissary for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has asked to meet privately with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) this week in advance of Trump's visit to Washington on Thursday, according to three people familiar with the matter.

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.

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.

Jon Stewart goes on rant against ‘man-baby’ Trump  —  Jon Stewart may no longer be hosting his show known for biting takedowns of political figures, but that didn't stop him Monday from going on an epic rant against Donald Trump.  The former “Daily Show” host told David Axelrod at the University …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

MSNBC's Hall, Roberts: Bill Clinton's Cheating Involved Only ‘Alleged’ Affairs [UPDATED]  —  UPDATE, 2:55 p.m. Eastern: A few hours after Hall furthered the falsehood about Clinton's martial infidelity, afternoon MSNBC Live host Thomas Roberts followed suit while speaking Trump campaign correspondent Katy Tur.

Trump's empty administration  —  Top Republican political leaders aren't the only ones shunning their party's presidential nominee — a vast number of highly skilled managers and policy experts, veterans of recent GOP administrations who would normally be expected to fill key positions for a new White House …

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Emails From Hillary Clinton's IT Director at State Department Appear to Be Missing  —  The State Department said today it can't find any of Bryan Pagliano's emails from the time he served as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's senior information technology staffer during her tenure there.

The rise of militias: Patriot candidates are now getting elected in Oregon  —  Like Trump, the Patriot Movement's surge is due partly to fear and the perceived indifference of political leaders to places that didn't recover from the 2008 crash  —  oseph Rice's manner is a long way from militia stereotypes.

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 …

Obama White House showed ‘bad faith’ in global warming case, judge rules  —  Third rebuke of administration's transparency this year  —  The White House showed “bad faith” in how it handled an open-records request for global warming data, a federal court ruled Monday, issuing yet another stinging rebuke …