Here's Why Today's Supreme Court Decision on Abortion Is So Important  —  This morning, the Supreme Court issued a 5-3 ruling in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, widely considered the most important abortion case to come before the high court in several decades.

Trump Hires Senior Advisor for Communications  —  Jason Miller served as the senior communications advisor for Texas Senator Ted Cruz's presidential campaign  —  Donald Trump has landed a GOP operative to be his new senior advisor for communications, a move meant to further professionalize his unconventional campaign.

Trump: Warren is a ‘racist’  —  (D-Mass.) on Monday, calling her a “racist” and a “total fraud.”  —  Speaking in an interview with NBC News correspondent Hallie Jackson, Trump retaliated against Warren, who described him as a bigot just hours earlier at a campaign stop with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton

House Democrats mistakenly release transcript confirming big payout to Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal  —  Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Hillary Clinton's, told congressional investigators he earned “about $200,000 a year” from a pro-Clinton nonprofit.  (Susan Walsh / Associated Press)

Obama Cautions Against ‘Hysteria’ Over ‘Brexit’ Vote  —  President Barack Obama is warning against financial and international “hysteria” in the wake of last week's vote by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.  —  “I think that the best way to think about this is …

Some Kauai residents unhappy about wall being built by Facebook billionaire  —  Updated:  —  Alden Alayvilla The Garden Island  —  KILAUEA, KAUAI — For years, Kilauea, Kauai resident Gy Hall has enjoyed the view of the ocean and the breeze along Koolau Road.

House Republicans' Report Sheds New Light on Benghazi Attack  —  Benghazi fallout: Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin faces questions 3:17  —  After a more than two-year investigation into the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, House Republicans are set to release a lengthy report Tuesday recounting …

More Clinton emails released, including some she deleted  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Another 165 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's time at the State Department surfaced Monday, including nearly three dozen that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee failed to hand over last year that were sent through her private server.

Trump promised millions to charity.  We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.  —  In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans' families.

EU leaders reject informal talks with UK  —  The European Union will not hold informal talks with the UK until it triggers Article 50 to leave, Germany, France and Italy have insisted.  —  German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted talks with French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Berlin.

What went wrong (and right) for Bernie Sanders  —  On the afternoon before an Iowa Democratic Party dinner in July 2015, Bernie Sanders firmly gripped the podium at a press conference, and referred to himself as an “underdog.”  He was closing the gap with Clinton in the polls …

Congress' Zika fail could bite GOP in election  —  Congress is poised for an epic failure in its efforts to combat Zika before lawmakers leave Washington for a seven-week vacation — and it could come back to bite Republicans at the ballot box if there's an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in the United States this summer.

After a campaign scarred by bigotry, it's become OK to be racist in Britain  —  The leave campaign has opened up a Pandora's box of resentment and suspicion - and it's only going to get worse when Brexit fails to deliver on its promises  —  n chaos of the kind Britain now faces, history is clear …

No, Jesse Williams, I Will Not ‘Sit Down’  —  Actor Jesse Williams of Grey's Anatomy is being celebrated by like-minded left-wingers across the Internet for delivering what is being called a courageous speech on race at the Black Entertainment (BET) Awards on Sunday evening.