First on CNN: Poll shows Clinton with battleground leads  —  Elizabeth Warren joins Clinton to attack Donald Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump across the board in a new poll of battleground states.  —  According to Ballotpedia's battleground poll, Clinton leads Trump:

Chris Stevens's Family: Don't Blame Hillary Clinton for Benghazi  —  On Tuesday, the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which is controlled by a Republican majority, charged the Obama Administration with diplomatic miscalculations, security failures, and a lengthy delay in rescue efforts …

Trump Campaign Lining Up Tyson and Ditka for Convention  —  Several sports personalities and musical entertainers have agreed to appear at this summer's convention.  —  kevcirilli  —  ESPN has nothing on this summer's Republican national convention.  —  Donald Trump's campaign aides …

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.”

Utah's Misty Snow makes history as Dems' transgender Senate nominee  —  Primary sets up contest with GOP's Lee in November.  —  Utah voters picked a historic, and largely unknown, Democratic candidate to challenge Sen. Mike Lee this November.  —  Misty K. Snow is the first transgender nominee …

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.

Evangelical Leader Backpedals On Story Of Trump's Recent Conversion  —  A prominent evangelical leader is walking back his claim that Donald Trump recently became a born-again Christian, saying he doesn't know the “details” of the alleged conversion.  —  Last week, Dr. James Dobson told attendees …

Carson: My mother ‘would have taken a gun’ and shot ‘dishonest reporters’  —  Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson joked Wednesday that if his mother did not have Alzheimer's disease, she would have likely taken to arms and gone after the “dishonest reporters” covering the campaign herself.

EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Hillary group takes $200K in banned donations  —  has accepted $200,000 in donations from a company holding multiple contracts with the federal government — despite a ban on such contributions.  —  According to a review of contributions by The Hill, Boston-based Suffolk Construction …

JESSICA WILLIAMS IS LEAVING THE DAILY SHOW — EXCLUSIVE  —  Thursday's episode will be her last, Williams reveals in an interview with EW  —  The youngest correspondent to ever join The Daily Show is about to become the youngest correspondent to ever leave it: After four years with the late-night series …

Plagiarized Lessons and Deceptive Tactics: A Look Inside the Trump Institute  —  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.

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

The DoNotPay bot has beaten 160,000 traffic tickets — and counting  —  A bot made to challenge traffic tickets has been used more than 9,000 times by New Yorkers, according to DoNotPay maker Joshua Browder.  —  The bot was made available to New Yorkers in March.

It's Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses  —  The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time.  It's not about the left vs. the right; it's about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry.  —  I was born in 1954, and until now I would have said that the late 1960s …

Why Did Bill Clinton And Loretta Lynch Meet On Her Airplane In Phoenix This Week?  [VIDEO]  —  Why Did Bill Clinton And Loretta Lynch Meet On Her Airplane In Phoenix This Week?  —  If It Wasn't For This CIA Officer, A Lot More People Would Have Died In Benghazi  —  DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION |

‘Gosh, I suppose I better get up!’  SARAH VINE (aka Mrs Gove) reveals what her husband said when he learned Leave had won the referendum... and how PM's resignation was ‘absolutely’ not intended  —  The first I knew about the referendum result was at 4.45am last Friday when I was woken …

CHILLING: Senator Marco Rubio Accurately Predicts Istanbul Terrorist Attack  —  Florida Senator Marco Rubio is no lightweight, and has proven himself well-versed in the threats facing our nation at this very critical juncture in world history.  —  In the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attack …

What Is on Justice Anthony Kennedy's Mind?  —  Some years ago, Dahlia Lithwick and I christened Justice Anthony Kennedy “the Sphinx of Sacramento.”  Throughout his nearly 30 years on the Supreme Court, Kennedy's mind has often seemed like a distant and mysterious country …

Gun Control Wall, Bolstered by Republicans, Shows a Crack  —  WASHINGTON — A widely publicized sit-in by House Democrats.  A bipartisan compromise proposal in the Senate.  Neither is very likely to lead to any legislative action in Congress on gun safety this year.

President Obama Reaffirms Goal to Defeat ISIS in Wake of Istanbul Attack  —  President Obama indirectly blamed ISIS for Tuesday's terrorist attack in Istanbul, calling the carnage “an indication of how little these vicious organizations have to offer” to society.

McConnell: Trump Still Not A ‘Credible’ Candidate, ‘Needs To Change’  —  With less than a month to go until the Republican Party formally coronates Donald Trump as its 2016 presidential nominee, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) still isn't convinced Trump is a “credible” candidate.