National poll: Trump nearly even with Clinton  —  Donald Trump has nearly pulled even with Hillary Clinton, according to the results of the NBC News/SurveyMonkey weekly tracking poll released Tuesday.  —  While Clinton is looking to wrap up the Democratic nomination with a strong performance …

Hillary Clinton broke the rules: Our view  —  As secretary of State, she ignored repeated warnings about email security.  —  Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, now agrees that the newly confirmed secretary of State made a mistake in 2009 when she decided, for the sake of “convenience,” …

Shady accounting underpins Trump's wealth  —  NEW YORK — Donald Trump claims a net worth of more than $10 billion and an income of $557 million.  But he appears to get there only by overvaluing properties and ignoring his expenses.  —  POLITICO spoke with more than a dozen financial experts …

Mitch McConnell on endorsing Trump, battling Obama and playing ‘the long game’  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who learned an early lesson about the value of patience and persistence during a childhood bout with polio, has some advice for Republicans alarmed …

Racist meme posted by hacker on Facebook, Delta Republicans say  —  An overtly racist Internet meme — comparing President Barack Obama to 1950s movie chimpanzee Bonzo — that appeared to be shared on the personal Facebook page of the chairwoman of the Delta County Republican Central Committee …

Hillary Clinton's Campaign Was Never Going to Be Easy.  But Did It Have to Get This Hard?  —  In a locker room at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, people are waiting in line to get their pictures taken with Hillary Clinton before a rally in the school's gym.

The Seven Broken Guardrails of Democracy  —  A long time ago, more than 20 years in fact, the Wall Street Journal published a powerful, eloquent editorial, simply headlined: “No Guardrails.” … Twenty years later, that same newspaper is edging toward open advocacy in favor of Donald Trump …

Alligators found eating dead body in western Broward County  —  Investigators on the scene on U.S. 27 near Sheridan Street where a dead body was being eaten by two alligators in western Davie.  Police scared them away and recovered the body.  —  Sun Sentinel … Privacy Policy

Franklin Pierce-Herald poll shows tight NH race, trouble for Clinton  —  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are deadlocked in the swing state of New Hampshire, but a stunning two-thirds of likely voters say they don't like either of them, a new Franklin Pierce University-Boston Herald poll reveals.

Sessions to GOP: Adapt to Trump or die  —  Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Donald Trump's friendly but fierce Alabama ally, has a message for Republicans still queasy about their party's nominee: Tide's about to roll over you.  —  Sessions, a 69-year-old former state attorney general …

Police ID gunman in west Houston shooting spree as military vet  —  Paris Nichols saw the bare-chested man with a crew cut stride calmly up to his wife Sunday morning as she chatted with a longtime customer at their family-owned car wash off Memorial Drive.  He reached around her …

Roman Polanski Faces New Extradition Challenge Over Child Sex Conviction  —  EMAIL ME  —  Poland's justice minister says he will appeal a court decision not to extradite the Oscar-winning director.  —  Roman Polanski faces a fresh extradition challenge after the Polish government announced Tuesday …

GOP convention no-shows threaten to undercut Trump unity push  —  Even as Donald Trump and Republican Party bosses diligently work Capitol Hill in hopes of bringing the party together after a fractious presidential primary, convention planners could still be looking at a block of empty seats for the July convention.

EXCLUSIVE — Huffington Post Writer: Editors Deleted My Article on Hillary's Imminent Indictment, Disabled Me from Writing  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A writer for The Huffington Post is still waiting for an explanation as to why editors deleted his piece reporting that the FBI will pursue an indictment against Hillary Clinton.

New video footage of Harambe shows the 400-pound gorilla HOLDING HANDS with the boy who fell into the zoo enclosure as witnesses say the animal was ‘acting protectively’  — Harambe was fatally shot after a four-year-old boy crawled past the railing and fell 10ft into the gorilla exhibit moat, authorities said

North Korea praises Trump and urges US voters to reject ‘dull Hillary’  —  State media outlet welcomes Republican candidate's ‘far-sighted’ policies and suggestion that he will withdraw troops from Seoul  —  North Korean state media has praised US presidential hopeful Donald Trump …

The Untold Story Behind Saudi Arabia's 41-Year U.S. Debt Secret  —  Photographer: Dirck Halstead/Liaison via AP Photo  —  President Nixon walks with Saudi King Faisal in Saudi Arabia in June 1974.  —  Failure was not an option.  —  It was July 1974.  A steady predawn drizzle had given …