Poll: Election 2016 shapes up as a contest of negatives  —  The coming presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump begins in a virtual dead heat, a competition between two candidates viewed unfavorably by a majority of the current electorate and with voters motivated as much by whom …

KING: Here's why I'm leaving the Democratic Party after this presidential election and you should too  —  Many of you aren't religious, so please forgive me for recalling my roots as a preacher and starting us off with a simple verse of scripture.  —  “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”

Exaggerator wins the 141st Preakness Stakes  —  BALTIMORE — Exaggerator won the Preakness Stakes on a sloppy track Saturday, ending a Triple Crown bid by Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, who lost for the first time in nine career starts.  —  Cherry Wine finished second, with Nyquist third.

NRA facing member backlash over Trump endorsement  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With its last-minute decision to formally endorse Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association put itself out in front of the fight for Republican party unity.  —  Just a day later, it's already taking flak.

We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully  —  Trump's weakness is ridicule.  Even if Jon Stewart is sitting this one out, Democrats need to embrace serious satire  —  Donald Trump's absurd yet frighteningly real campaign …

Exclusive — Donald J. Trump: Hillary Clinton's Plans for More Illegal Immigration Into America a ‘Disaster for Our Country’  —  NEW YORK CITY, New York — Donald J. Trump, the billionaire real estate magnate and presumptive 2016 GOP presidential nominee, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview …

GOP Hispanic leaders open to reconciling with Trump  —  Prominent Hispanic conservatives say they could back Donald Trump  —  if the presumptive GOP nominee changes his tone and walks back some of his policy positions.  —  Republican Latino leaders have chaffed at Trump's call for a wall …

Bruenighazi: How a feisty Bernie blogger's firing explains Democratic politics in 2016  —  Late in the afternoon on Friday, a press statement appeared on the website of the think tank Demos that set significant segments of policy twitter and left-wing political twitter ablaze.

Primed to fight the government  —  A fast-growing U.S. movement armed with guns and the Constitution sees a dire threat to liberty  —  B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target.  Soper's wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols.

The Trump Wall Will Save Hundreds of Lives and Protect Women From Gang-Rape  —  Donald Trump stirred up controversy this past year for claiming “rapists” and “killers” are migrating over the United States' southern border.  —  Trump was right.  —  Rapists are crossing over into the US southern border.