U.S. Directs Public Schools to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping directive telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.

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On Facebook, Trump's Longtime Butler Calls for Obama to Be Killed  —  Anthony Senecal, who worked as Donald Trump's butler for 17 years before being named the in-house historian at the tycoon's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, has repeatedly published posts on his Facebook page …

Trump accuses Bezos of using the Washington Post to avoid taxes  —  Donald Trump is done with Jeff Bezos.  —  In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Thursday night, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee alleged that the Amazon founder uses the Washington Post to secure tax benefits for his company.

Donald Trump masqueraded as a spokesman to brag about himself  —  The voice is instantly familiar; the tone, confident, even cocky; the cadence, distinctly Trumpian.  The man on the phone vigorously defending Donald Trump says he's a media spokesman named John Miller, but then he says …

Elizabeth Warren Is On An Anti-Trump Tweetstorm.  The Clinton Campaign Has Noticed.  —  And a buried 2015 focus group hints at why she might just be the VP pick.  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  Twice this past week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) …

Clinton Charity Aided Clinton Friends  —  A $2 million commitment arranged by the nonprofit Clinton Global Initiative in 2010 went to a for-profit company part-owned by friends of the Clintons  —  HASTINGS, Neb.—The Clinton Global Initiative, which arranges donations to help solve the world's problems …

Sheldon Adelson: I endorse Donald Trump for president  —  Sheldon G. Adelson is chairman and chief executive of Las Vegas Sands Corp.  —  At the outset of the 2016 election, the GOP primary field was nearly as large as that of last weekend's Kentucky Derby.

Sanders crashes into Democratic Party wall  —  Now it's the Democratic convention that's promising to get messy.  —  After piling up millions of votes and wins in 19 states, Bernie Sanders and his supporters are beginning to lay out their expectations for the Democratic National Convention …

Sen. Sessions: Election offers a simple choice  —  In Donald Trump, we have a forceful advocate for America.  —  For the first time in a long time, this November will give Americans a clear choice on perhaps the most important issue facing our country and our civilization …

Trump campaign eyes #NeverTrump blacklist  —  Donald Trump's campaign is considering hitting his Republican enemies where it hurts: Their wallets.  —  As Trump moves to work in closer concert with the Republican National Committee apparatus, some campaign aides and allies are pushing …

Donald Trump Won't Alter Tax Plan, Spokeswoman Says as Confusion Reigns  —  WASHINGTON — After days of confusion over Donald J. Trump's hints that he would change his tax plan to reduce its budget-busting cost and make it less generous to the rich, his spokeswoman on Thursday sought to clear things up …

Calling it ‘disgusting,’ congressional candidate renounces fundraising  —  Congressional campaign fundraising is such a “disgusting and appalling” process that multimillionaire Randy Perkins won't hit up contributors anymore and is refunding donations to anyone who asks, he told POLITICO Florida.

Senate Appropriations Bill Spends More Than Obama Requested  —  The U.S. Senate's first spending bill of 2016 allocates $261 million more than President Barack Obama requested and lacks significant conservative amendments, but it still sailed to passage Thursday in the Republican-led chamber.

Yellen Doesn't Rule Out Negative Rates in Letter to Congressman  —  Fed chair emphasizes high bar for resorting to negative rates  —  Policy makers would need to consider ‘wide range of issues’  —  Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen didn't rule out using negative rates in a future crisis …

Sarah Palin: Paul Ryan, Donald Trump meeting ‘makes me ill’  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued her attacks against House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, saying his highly publicized meeting Thursday with presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., made her “ill.”

Dinesh D'Souza's 'Hillary's America' Docu Set To Open Just Before GOP Convention  —  EXCLUSIVE: No word yet if Dinesh D'Souza's Hillary's America: The Secret History Of The Democratic Party will be playing in Cleveland when the Republicans have their national convention in the Ohio city …

Boehner wouldn't be surprised if Clinton ‘has to withdraw’  —  (R-Ohio) on Thursday took shots at Sen. Ted Cruz  —  (R-Texas) and said he wouldn't be surprised if Hillary Clinton  —  ends up withdrawing from the presidential race.  —  Addressing the SALT Conference in Las Vegas …

Clinton abandoned secure line to use home phone, new email shows  —  New emails released by a conservative watchdog group on Thursday appear to show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton  —  directing a top aide to call her via an unsecured phone line when technical troubles prevented a secure phone conversation.

A bit of debris chipped the International Space Station.  That's just one piece of a much bigger problem.  —  When you sit around imagining life aboard the International Space Station (we all do that, right?) one thing you probably don't want to think about is a space junk slamming into your vessel.