Loretta Lynch to Accept F.B.I. Recommendations in Clinton Email Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over a federal investigation of Hillary Clinton's personal email account …

More Upheaval on Donald Trump's Team as Two Staff Members Resign  —  Donald J. Trump's campaign experienced two more departures this week when two staff members who handled surrogate operations resigned, including one who was hired less than two weeks ago.  —  Kevin Kellems …

Unpredictability Is Hallmark of Convention to Crown Donald Trump  —  With just more than two weeks until the Republican National Convention opens in Cleveland, Donald J. Trump's preparations for what is usually a polished and highly choreographed affair are looking a lot like his campaign itself: chaotic, freewheeling and unpredictable.

Donald Trump used money donated for charity to buy himself a Tim Tebow-signed football helmet  —  Did Donald Trump violate IRS rules, by using a charity's money to buy himself a signed football helmet?  —  Four years ago, at a charity fundraiser in Palm Beach, Donald Trump got into a bidding war at the evening's live auction.

A note on The Toast  —  This is not a joke.  Hillary's team had talked to me a few weeks back about doing something, but I didn't want to do, like, a “If Hillary Were Your President” type thing, and then they got in touch on Wednesday and said she wanted to write something HERSELF …

How Boris Johnson was brought to his knees by the ‘cuckoo nest plot’  —  Sir Lynton Crosby, Boris Johnson's campaign manager, was making final preparations for the formal announcement of Mr Johnson's Tory leadership bid when his phone rang at 8.53 on Thursday morning.

Is the Trump Campaign Just a Giant Safe Space for the Right?  —  Statesboro, Ga. — DEPENDING on whom you ask, political correctness is either an effort to expunge offensive expression from our culture, or it's a weapon fashioned by the left to brainwash the next generation.

Author Gay Talese disavows his latest book amid credibility questions  —  In his forthcoming book, “The Voyeur's Motel,” acclaimed journalist and nonfiction author Gay Talese chronicles the bizarre story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guests at his Colorado motel from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.

U.S. top one percent of income earners hit new high in 2015 amid strong economic growth  —  The top 1 percent income earners in the United States hit a new high last year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.  The bottom 99 percent of income earners registered …

As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness.  And, sometimes, demonic possession.  —  How a scientist learned to work with exorcists.  —  In the late 1980s, I was introduced to a self-styled Satanic high priestess.  She called herself a witch and dressed the part, with flowing dark clothes …

Biden: Bernie Sanders Is ‘Going To Endorse’ Hillary Clinton  —  Vice President Joe Biden is confident that Bernie Sanders is going to endorse Hillary Clinton and that the Democratic party will unify.  —  “Oh, I've talked to Bernie, Bernie's going to endorse her, this is going to work out …

Dems: GOP's Planned Parenthood probe could exceed $1M  —  House Republicans are seeking nearly $500,000 to expand their investigation into Planned Parenthood, according to Democrats on the House Administration Committee.  —  With that new money, the GOP-led investigative panel would cost …

Corey Lewandowski's first week on CNN was just as bad as everyone expected  —  A week isn't very long to learn a new job, so it's possible Corey Lewandowski will improve in his role as a CNN commentator.  But so far, Donald Trump's recently fired campaign manager is just plain bad — and not only for the reasons many anticipated.

Major League Baseball must permanently retire ‘God Bless America,’ a song that offends everyone  —  It's time for God to stop blessing America during the seventh-inning stretch.  —  Welcome to the July 4 holiday weekend — when once again, baseball fans will be assaulted by the saccharine-sweet non-anthem …

Fox News Poll: Fewer Americans feeling proud  —  The number of Americans proud of their country has dropped significantly in the last five years, according to the latest Fox News Poll.  —  Pride is down 19 percentage points: 69 percent of voters were proud of America in 2011.  It's 50 percent today.