Donald Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit  —  Donald J. Trump enters the general election campaign laboring under the worst financial and organizational disadvantage of any major party nominee in recent history, placing both his candidacy and party in political peril.

Democrats Tanked Gun Control To Up Their Election Chances  —  On Monday evening, Senate Democrats put party over principle in rejecting common-sense, reasonable gun control measures.  After the mass murder at Orlando gay club Pulse, Sen. Chris Murphy and his colleagues staged a flashy talk …

Secret Service veterans denounce anti-Clinton tell-all book  —  The author of a new tell-all book about Hillary Clinton could never have seen any of what he claims — he was too low-ranking — say several high-level members of Secret Service presidential details, including the president …

Will Trump Swallow the G.O.P. Whole?  —  Inside the identity crisis roiling the Republican Party.  —  Every week or so during the spring, I met with Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, at the party headquarters on Capitol Hill.  We fell into a familiar routine.

How American Politics Went Insane  —  It's 2020, four years from now.  The campaign is under way to succeed the president, who is retiring after a single wretched term.  Voters are angrier than ever—at politicians, at compromisers, at the establishment.  Congress and the White House seem incapable …

Clinton seeks rock-star convention lineup  —  Democratic operatives planning next month's national convention in Philadelphia have reached out to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning writer and star of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” about performing at the Wells Fargo Center, sources told POLITICO.

Police seeking information in assault at Geno's Steaks  —  Philadelphia police are looking for five men in connection with an assault outside Geno's Steaks on June 11.  —  The men, all caught on surveillance video, fled in two cars - a dark colored pickup truck and an SUV - both with New Jersey license plates.

Benghazi panel misses self-imposed deadline to issue report  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Benghazi Committee missed a self-imposed deadline to issue a report “before summer,” the latest setback for a probe that has gone on for more than two years and drawn scorn from Democrats …

Authorities: Man at Vegas rally said he wanted to kill Trump  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal officer says a man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas told authorities he tried to grab an officer's gun so he could kill the candidate.  —  A complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court …

Read Sonia Sotomayor's Atomic Bomb of a Dissent Slamming Racial Profiling and Mass Imprisonment  —  The Supreme Court issued an extraordinarily disappointing 5-3 decision on Monday in Utah v. Strieff, a Fourth Amendment case about police searches.  Yet the terrible ruling came with a bright spot …

The Brexit crash will make all of you poorer - be warned  —  My 60 years of experience tells me the pound will plummet, along with your living standards.  The only winners will be speculators  —  avid Cameron, along with the Treasury, the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund …

Why did the White House just humiliate Loretta Lynch?  —  Idiotic: That's the only word for the Obama administration's move to scrub references to Islam or ISIS from the transcripts of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen's calls.  —  Under an avalanche of ridicule, the Justice Department on Monday relented and released the full transcripts.

The Senate's shame on guns: Our view  —  Senators throw away another chance to improve background checks.  —  You'd think that if there was one step both parties in Washington could support in the wake of the nation's worst mass shooting, it would be to close a yawning gap …