Die-Hard Bernie Sanders Backers See F.B.I. as Answer to Their Prayers  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. — Senator Bernie Sanders may be trailing Hillary Clinton by hundreds of delegates, and Mrs. Clinton may be treating the Democratic nomination as hers, but Julie Crowell, a stay-at-home mother …

Donald Trump has exposed Marco Rubio  —  In the late stages of his doomed presidential campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio declared that the front-runner for his party's nomination was “a con artist.”  But it turns out that Donald Trump wasn't the only GOP presidential candidate pulling the wool over people's eyes.

Trump's Delusions of Competence  —  In general, you shouldn't pay much attention to polls at this point, especially with Republicans unifying around Donald Trump while Bernie Sanders hasn't conceded the inevitable.  Still, I was struck by several recent polls showing Mr. Trump favored …

Obama becomes first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, and calls on the world to morally evolve  —  President Obama lays a wreath at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, on Friday, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to travel to the site of the first nuclear bomb ever deployed in warfare.

An Open Letter to Peter Thiel  —  Nearly a decade ago, after you had opened up to friends and colleagues, a gay writer for Gawker shared an item with the readers of Valleywag, a section for news and gossip about the rich and powerful of Silicon Valley.  “Peter Thiel, the smartest VC in the world, is gay,” wrote Owen Thomas.

‘Game on’ — Trump, Sanders to debate?  —  Donald Trump agrees to debate Bernie Sanders  —  (CNN)Could a debate between presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders be in the works?  —  Trump says he'd “love to.”  —  Who's really winning presidential race?

How Donald Trump Destroyed the Interview  —  The interview is the Niagara that fills the news ocean.  A quick check of the front page of the New York Times, a scan of any 30-minute block of CNN, or a few clicks on the POLITICO home page establish it: For generations, the interview …

Chinese Detergent Ad Draws Charges of Racism  —  A Chinese laundry detergent commercial has spurred outrage online, with many social media users accusing it of blatant racism.  —  In the commercial for Qiaobi laundry detergent, an Asian woman shoves a detergent pod into the mouth of a black worker …

The secret life of Kim Jong Un's aunt, who has lived in the U.S. since 1998  —  NEW YORK — Wandering through Times Square, past the Naked Cowboy and the Elmos and the ticket touts, she could be any immigrant trying to live the American Dream.  —  A 60-year-old Korean woman with a soft perm …

Bernie Hits Bump on Univision: Speechless on Socialism's Failures  —  The Democrats' socialist candidate for President of the United States, Bernie Sanders, was seriously tripped up this week in an interview with Univision's León Krauze.  —  When asked to explain the failure …

Bible verse prompts GOP walkout after LGBT vote labeled a sin  —  A House conservative went after dozens of fellow Republicans on Thursday with suggestions that they'd sinned for backing an anti-discrimination proposal against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

Trump: ‘You have to be wealthy in order to be great’  —  declared Thursday that “you have to be wealthy in order to be great,” while promising to add wealth to the country.  —  The comment from the billionaire businessman and presumptive GOP presidential nominee came during a speech …

Early Detection of New Antibiotic Resistance  —  Just over a year ago, President Obama released a National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria.  As part of that plan, he also charged the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health …

Obama's naive idealism has caused havoc as America makes the same mistakes over and over again  —  How do you distinguish a foreign policy “idealist” from a “realist,” an optimist from a pessimist?  Ask one question: Do you believe in the arrow of history?  Or to put it another way, do you think history is cyclical or directional?

My Bizarre Dinner Party with Donald Trump, Roy Cohn and Estee Lauder  —  Roy Cohn's weekend house wasn't large, maybe two bedrooms, a brown shingle lovely that stood over a burbling brook at the end of a long, wooded driveway in north Greenwich, Connecticut.

RNC scrambles to calm state GOP officials  —  The Republican National Committee is scrambling to respond to increasingly frantic concerns from state GOP officials that the party has not provided enough field organizers and will be badly outgunned by Democrats in battleground states.

They Tilt Right, but Top Chief Executives Don't Give to Trump  —  The C-suite leans right.  —  Republican candidates have drawn overwhelming support from the highest-paid chief executives in the country this election cycle, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics conducted for The New York Times.

Text of President Obama's Speech in Hiroshima, Japan  —  The following is a transcript of President Obama's speech in Hiroshima, Japan, as recorded by The New York Times.  —  Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed.