Sanders wins greater say in Democratic platform; names pro-Palestinian activist  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders has chosen a well-known advocate for Palestinian rights to help draft the Democratic Party platform this year, after party leaders gave the longshot but deeply popular candidate unusual …

Trump escalates attack on Bill Clinton  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is reviving some of the ugliest political chapters of the 1990s with escalating personal attacks on Bill Clinton's character — centered on past accusations of sexual assault — amid a concerted effort …

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe under federal investigation for campaign contributions  —  Washington (CNN)Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department's public integrity unit, U.S. officials briefed on the probe say.

VA secretary: Disney doesn't measure wait times, so why should VA?  —  Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at Disneyland, and said his agency shouldn't use wait times …

Response to Chairman John Thune's letter on Trending Topics  —  Last week we met with Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee John Thune to describe our investigation in response to anonymous allegations of political bias in our Trending Topics feature and to discuss the preliminary results of our work.

Woman trying to prove ‘vegans can do anything’ among three dead on Everest.  Two more missing and thirty sick or frostbitten.  —  29,029.  —  That's how many feet in the air the peak of Mount Everest towers over Nepal, and the world, in its gleaming white brilliance.

Bernie Sanders' Campaign Drops Tommy Chong as Intro Speaker Hours Before L.A. Rally  —  EMAIL ME  —  “It was an insult,” the comic actor says.  —  Tommy Chong is in disbelief after he was disinvited by the Bernie Sanders campaign from introducing the presidential hopeful hours before a rally in East Los Angeles.

In Trump's World, Newt Gingrich Is King — and Maybe VP  —  The two men are kindred spirits in more ways than one.  —  He has an uncanny ability to dominate the media and shape a narrative, and he harnessed the anger and anxiety of lower-middle-class whites to reshape the Republican party.

Bernie insults voters: He must drop notion that everyone who disagrees with him is corrupt or a dupe  —  Sanders refuses to admit he lost, instead sticking to the idea that he wasn't given a fair shot by the voters  —  The Bernie Sanders campaign has injected a lot of welcome aspects …

Obama Hits Highest Job Approval Since Second Inauguration  —  As the race to succeed President Barack Obama rages around him, the man who currently sits in the Oval Office has hit his highest approval rating since his second inauguration, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows.

Machine Bias  —  There's software used across the country to predict future criminals.  And it's biased against blacks.  —  ON A SPRING AFTERNOON IN 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid's blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter.

Trump ‘Christian Policy’ Adviser Is A ‘Prophet’ Who Stopped A Tsunami, Says AIDS Is Result Of ‘Unnatural Sex’  —  Mario Bramnick, an official with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, told Time magazine last week that Donald Trump has taken on Frank Amedia of Touch Heaven Ministries …

Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast  —  I don't eat breakfast.  It's not that I dislike what's offered.  Given the choice of breakfast food or lunch food, I'd almost always choose eggs or waffles.  It's just that I'm not hungry at 7:30 a.m., when I leave for work.

Liberal Advocacy Group Comes Out Against Obama's Big Overtime Rule  —  U.S. PIRG says it will face a choice between paying staffers more or working them less.  Which is the whole idea.  —  Labor Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  A network of left-leaning public-interest groups has come …

D.C.'s worst May ever, explained.  —  So far this May, D.C. has had a record number of rainy days (19 of 23) and the coolest high temperatures since 1882.  This May's afternoon highs are running an incredible 15 degrees cooler than last May's.  And we still haven't hit 80 degrees.

Donald Trump is going to win: This is why Hillary Clinton can't defeat what Trump represents  —  People are rising up against neoliberal globalization.  Trump represents capital, but also understands this reality  —  The neofascist reaction, the force behind Trump, has come …

The Big Uneasy  —  What's roiling the liberal-arts campus?  —  At Oberlin, it started in December, when the temperatures ran high, although the weeping willows and the yellow poplars that had flared in the fall were bare already.  Problems had a tendency to escalate.

Glenn Reynolds: When leaders cheat, followers ... follow  —  The trust that underlies a law-abiding society is rotting away thanks to double-dealing in Washington.  —  The state is “a gang of thieves writ large,” economist Murray Rothbard is said to have remarked.

Judge halts Ohio law that blocked funds for Planned Parenthood  —  A federal judge in Cincinnati temporarily blocked the implementation of a state law that would have effectively de-funded 28 Ohio Planned Parenthood clinics, in a ruling on Monday.  —  U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett granted …

Michelle Fields Signs On to #NeverTrump ‘News’ Blog Huffington Post  —  WASHINGTON, DC — Former associate Michelle Fields announced Sunday night that she is joining the left-wing Huffington Post website to cover the Donald Trump campaign.  —  Fields' move completes the 180-degree transition …