Donald Trump Lags Behind Hillary Clinton in Organizing Key State  —  The presumptive GOP nominee's slow start in Ohio could undermine his chances of winning the White House  —  PLAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio—Though Donald Trump dispensed with his last primary opponent months before Hillary Clinton will …

Obama lifts U.S. arms ban on Vietnam  —  Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN)President Barack Obama announced Monday that the United States is fully lifting a decades-long ban on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam.  —  In a joint news conference in Hanoi with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang …

Bernie Loses His Halo  —  Is the left turning on its darling, Bernie Sanders?  On Friday, Netroots titan Markos Moulitsas, namesake of the liberal Daily Kos, dropped a rhetorical bomb on the Bern, blaming the candidate for doing too little to denounce death threats received by the Nevada Democratic Party …

Supreme court dismisses GOP appeal over Virginia districts  —  WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court has dismissed a Republican appeal over congressional districts in Virginia.  —  The justices on Monday left in place a decision by a lower court that said Virginia illegally packed black voters …

Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course  —  Donald Trump says he is “not a big believer in global warming.”  He has called it “a total hoax,” “bulls**t” and “pseudoscience.”  —  But he is also trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from “global warming and its effects.”

Electoral map looks grim for Trump  —  is getting good news in the polls.  —  Last week, a Fox News poll saw him take a 3-point lead over Hillary Clinton  —  in a national survey.  That's within the margin of error.  —  But step back and take the long view.  Clinton led by seven points in April.

Former US Official Reveals Risks Faced by Internal Critics  —  US President Barack Obama has said that Edward Snowden should have used official channels instead of taking NSA spying public.  Now, a former high-ranking US government official has revealed how the Pentagon retaliates against internal critics.

I was just another reporter sent to cover radicalization in Minneapolis.  Then 2 local Somalis took me on a tour  —  Haqhawo Qaasim holds a photo of Guled Ali Omar, a defendant in an Islamic State recruitment trial, while standing in front of the courthouse in Minneapolis.  (Elizabeth Flores / Star Tribune)

Donald Trump Defends His National Security Positions as Hillary Clinton Attacks  —  Clinton is working to stoke fears that Trump fails the  —  Hillary Clinton is leveling a withering attack on Donald Trump's temperament and judgment when it comes to national security, calling him unqualified …

Republicans Paying More Attention to Election Than Democrats  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Republicans continue to follow the news of the presidential election more closely than Democrats.  In mid-May, 47% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they are following election news …

Sweden pays parents for having kids — and it reaps huge benefits.  Why doesn't the US?  —  Basic income is all the rage these days.  The idea — which calls for the government to give everyone in a given city/state/country/whatever enough money to live in, no strings attached …

How corporate America bought Hillary Clinton for $21M  —  “Follow the money.”  That telling phrase, which has come to summarize the Watergate scandal, has been a part of the lexicon since 1976.  It's shorthand for political corruption: At what point do “contributions” become bribes …

Iraq Begins Assault on Islamic State in Fallujah  —  Fallujah one of Islamic State's most significant remaining strongholds in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD—Iraqi forces have begun their assault on Islamic State in Fallujah, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said late Sunday, an operation that aims to evict …

Proposed national park is a multimillion-dollar gift wrapped up in distrust  —  EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — The nearly 88,000 acres were meant to be a gift, donated along with a $40 million endowment so that part of Maine's pristine North Woods might be protected forever as a national park.

Facebook's Troubling One-Way Mirror  —  If you bothered to read the fine print when you created your Facebook account, you would have noticed just how much of yourself you were giving over to Mark Zuckerberg and his $340 billion social network.  —  In exchange for an admittedly magical level …