Pennsylvania Close; Sanders Supporter Unity Would Make It Not Close  —  PPP's new Pennsylvania poll finds a close race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the state, although both a generic Democratic candidate and Bernie Sanders have more substantial leads that bode well for Clinton's chances …

Trump Says ‘No Reason’ to Raise $1 Billion for Campaign  —  In his first interview after the final day of Republican nomination contests, he also said his running-mate search was focused on four or five politicians.  —  michaelcbender  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald …

Conservative Radio Host Hugh Hewitt Says GOP Should Change Convention Rules to Dump Trump  —  Conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt argued Wednesday morning that the Republican Party should make an unprecedented effort to change the Republican National Convention rules to allow them to dump Donald Trump as their nominee.

Grassley equates Trump's judge comments with Sotomoyor's ‘wise Latina’ logic  —  U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley on Wednesday likened presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's controversial remarks on a federal judge to a statement frequently made by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor …

Trump Interview - The Transcript  —  CT: My grandparents used to play a parlor game.  It went like this: Tell me who you are without telling me your name or what you do.  We have seen your tough exterior, but who are you at your core and what is your basic philosophy and worldview?

Rep. Duncan Hunter Compares Judge Curiel To An Iraqi-American Judging Chris Kyle  —  “Here you have Chris Kyle, who's killed a whole bunch of bad guys in Iraq.  Would that be a fair trial for Chris Kyle?  If you had that judge there?  Probably not.”  —  Win Mcnamee / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com

FBI: Everything on Clinton is ‘evidence’ or ‘potential evidence’  —  The FBI is treating everything on the private server used to run former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton  —  's personal email account as evidence or possible evidence as part of the federal investigation connected to the machine …

Student who helped stop Stanford sexual assault describes what he saw  —  A northern California judge faces outrage over the sentence he handed down in a sexual assault case at Stanford University.  Brock Turner was given six months in jail for the assault of a woman outside a fraternity party.

Two guys allegedly tried to rob a French McDonald's, but off-duty special forces unit was eating inside  —  When the two armed men entered the McDonald's in Besancon, a city in eastern France near the Switzerland border, they found about 40 people dining on fried, fast food.

Dilbert has gone fascist: The strange unrequited love Scott Adams seems to have for Donald Trump  —  The Dilbert creator insists he's not a Trump backer, but the way he talks about him suggests otherwise  —  Scott Adams, the creator of “Dilbert,” wants you to know he does not love Donald Trump.

Jeffrey Lord Makes A Mockery Out Of CNN's Election Night Coverage UPDATED  —  There comes a time when a network has to take action against one of their panel members, because they routinely stray from the topic at hand, invent historical analogies and fabricate events that never took place, and refuse to answer simple questions.

Dump the G.O.P. for a Grand New Party  —  If a party could declare moral bankruptcy, today's Republican Party would be in Chapter 11.  —  This party needs to just shut itself down and start over — now.  Seriously, someone please start a New Republican Party!  —  America needs a healthy two-party system.

New ISIS ‘Kill’ List Claims To Target Thousands Of Americans  —  ISIS “kill” lists have called on ISIS loyalists to attack everyone from Minnesota cops to State Department employees and ordinary Americans  —  A pro-ISIS “hacking” group calling itself the United Cyber Caliphate distributed its latest “kill” list this week.

Waitress assaulted on French Riviera for ‘serving alcohol’ on first day of holy month of Ramadan  —  A waitress in a cafe in central Nice has filed a police complaint after she was allegedly assaulted by two men because she refused to “stop serving alcohol” on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.

Midlothian man sees Donald Trump in bathroom floor tile  —  MIDLOTHIAN, Va. — Clayton Litten was sitting on his toilet, admiring his newly tiled bathroom floor when he first saw it.  —  “This cannot be.  There's no way,” Litten said when he saw the image — “clear as day.”

The Republican Party Just Crashed and Burned in California  —  The GOP won't even have a Senate candidate on the ballot in the nation's largest state.  —  By ,  —  Fifty years ago, California was a reasonably Republican state—with a Republican named Reagan on his way to being elected governor …

The right's scapegoat: Renee Ellmers' primary loss in North Carolina encapsulates the irrational rage fueling conservatives  —  Ellmers became a right-wing symbol of Republicans being too soft on “political correctness,” so she had to go  —  There are two schools of thought when it comes …