McConnell Says Trump Is Not Yet A “Credible Candidate”  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has reservations about the candidate at the top the 2016 Republican ticket: Donald Trump.  —  McConnell made headlines earlier this week for declining to say whether Trump is qualified for the presidency.

Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meet privately in Phoenix  —  PHOENIX - Amid an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of email and hours before the public release of the Benghazi report, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton.

Ballotpedia's battleground poll, 2016  — Ballot access for presidential candidates  — The media's coverage of Hillary Clinton  — Insiders Poll: First Democratic debate (October 13, 2015)  — Insiders Poll: Winners and losers from the Fox News Republican Debate

Watchdog Groups File FEC Complaint Over Trump Emails To Foreign Pols  —  Two watchdog groups, the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, said they will file Wednesday a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, arguing that the Donald Trump campaign has broken federal law …

Nate Silver Predicts Clinton Wins General Election Against Trump … “We're at halftime of the election right now,” Silver said.  “She's taking a seven-point, maybe a ten-point lead into half time.  There's a lot of football left to be played.  She's ahead in almost every poll, every swing state, every national poll.”

Ditka surprised to read that he'll be at GOP convention with Trump  —  Photos of the Hall of Fame Bears coach.  —  A report late Tuesday that Donald Trump is lining up Mike Ditka to make a star appearance at the Republican National Convention came as no surprise to anybody — except Da Coach himself.

Response to Trump on steel  —  In Pennsylvania today Donald Trump said, “When subsidized foreign steel is dumped into our markets, threatening our factories, the politicians do nothing.”  —  This is false.  President Bush imposed tariffs on imported steel in 2002.

Exclusive: Miss Teen USA to eliminate swimsuit competition  —  4.2k Shares  —  One of America's highest-profile beauty pageants just traded bikinis for athleisure.  —  In recent years, competitions have increasingly modernized, featuring women that break the mold of the traditional pageant queen …

Why police were called to a South Jersey third-grade class party  —  On June 16, police were called to an unlikely scene: an end-of-the-year class party at the William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood.  —  A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class.

Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons  —  In 2005, as he was making a transition from developing real estate to capitalizing on his fame through ventures like a reality show and product-licensing deals, Donald J. Trump hit upon a two-pronged strategy for entering the field of for-profit education.

Clinton's Private E-Mail Use Said to Frustrate Top Aide Huma Abedin  —  Both witnesses to Abedin's testimony described her as cooperative.  —  A top aide to Hillary Clinton said the former secretary of state's use of a private e-mail server to conduct government business on at least …

Obama goes on “rant” about Donald Trump's populism  —  President Obama went off on his own rant Wednesday at a trilateral press conference in which he disputed the idea that Donald Trump is a populist and that the presumptive GOP nominee instead promotes “nativism” or “xenophobia.”

Trump Says GOP Opponents Should Support Him Or Be Banned From Office  —  Donald Trump said Wednesday that he thought his Republican primary opponents who vowed to support the Party's nominee should follow through or be banned from running for public office.  —  Trump, speaking at a campaign rally …

The World's Most Efficient Languages  —  Just as fish presumably don't know they're wet, many English speakers don't know that the way their language works is just one of endless ways it could have come out.  It's easy to think that what one's native language puts words to, and how, reflects the fundamentals of reality.

Senate panel approves $500M for international climate fund  —  The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday adopted a $500 million spending package for the Green Climate Fund, an international climate change adaptation program.  —  Members approved the funding, via an amendment from Sens. Jeff Merkley

FBI asks agencies who responded to Pulse to deny records requests  —  The FBI released more information from its investigation into the June 12 shooting at Pulse, an Orlando gay nightclub where 49 people were killed and 53 were injured.  Among the information released: a partial transcript …

Missouri GOP Candidate For Governor Selling ‘ISIS Hunting Permits’  —  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens is selling so-called “ISIS hunting permits” to raise money.  —  Greitens' campaign distributed an email Wednesday promoting bumper stickers …

Muslim Recruit's Death Sparks a Broad Marine Investigation  —  More than a dozen drill instructors in Parris Island, S.C., battalion face probe over allegations of hazing and physical abuse at boot camp  —  The death of a young Muslim-American recruit at boot camp is at the heart …

Law Enforcement Sources: Gun Used in Paris Terrorist Attacks Came from Phoenix  —  One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile …

ISIS Announces It Has Covert Units in France and Turkey  —  ISIS celebrated its second anniversary this week.  —  The terror group released an infographic of centers of control and areas with covert units.  —  The Islamists claim they have covert groups in France, Turkey, Tunisia and Algeria...

Obama Admin Faces Lawsuit Over Iran Deal Cover-up  —  Americans were rightly outraged when they found out the Obama White House had misled the public to make the Iran Deal seem like a golden opportunity.  In reality, they knew Iran was not the “moderate” regime they claimed.