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 …

Gingrich reverses course on trade as Trump VP chatter swirls  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, under consideration as Donald Trump's running mate, is dropping his decades-long support of free trade deals and picking up Trump's strongly protectionist position.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

Pro-Clinton PAC returns banned donations  —  has refunded $200,000 in contributions from a company that The Hill discovered had contracts with the federal government.  —  In a statement, Suffolk Construction said Priorities USA had returned the donation.  —  “Based on our internal accounting …

Austria presidential poll result overturned  —  Austria's highest court has annulled the result of the presidential election narrowly lost by the candidate of the far-right Freedom Party.  —  The party had challenged the result, saying that postal votes had been illegally and improperly handled.

CROSS-POSTED AT ACASIGNUPS.NET  —  With all of the lawsuits against the ACA flying around over the years, there are some which I haven't even heard about.  One of them just came to my attention this morning (thanks to Nicholas Bagley for the heads' up): The State of West Virginia vs. the HHS Dept:

The Coming Political Realignment  —  Donald Trump has done something politically smart and substantively revolutionary.  He is a Republican presidential candidate running against free trade and, effectively, free markets.  —  By putting trade at the top of the conversation he elevates …

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 …

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 …