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 …

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 …

Campaign Chairman: Clinton Knows Email Setup Was A “Mistake”  —  In a memo to top supporters, Hillary Clinton's top official sought to clarify the campaign's response to a new report from the State Department inspector general and move past a controversy that has dogged the candidate now for 15 months.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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

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.

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 …

Donald Trump is a ‘vulgar, demented, pig demon’ says Hillary Clinton's ex adviser  —  Donald Trump is a ‘vulgar, demented, pig demon’ who only appeals to ‘emasculated’ middle-aged men, the former innovation adviser to Hillary Clinton has said.  —  Alec Ross, who was senior aide to Clinton during …

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

Sweden stirs debate with women-only swimming, in nod to Muslims  —  Models of thought As Muslims become a larger part of Swedish society, some municipal pools are offering women-only swimming to accommodate the new arrivals.  But while well intended, the new policy is bumping up against Swedish ideals of equality.