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 …

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.

Disabled St. Jude patient sues airport and TSA after bloody scuffle with Airport Police  —  Bloodied and bruised Hannah Cohen was led from Memphis International Airport in handcuffs.  —  The 19-year old was headed home to Chattanooga after treatment for a brain tumor at St. Jude Hospital June 30, 2015.

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 …

Gunmen battle police in diplomatic area of Dhaka, official says  —  (CNN)Police exchanged gunfire with armed attackers Friday at a restaurant in a diplomatic zone of Dhaka, Bangladesh.  —  Assailants were throwing grenades at police, a source at the scene said.

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 …

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.

White House releases its count of civilian deaths in counterterrorism operations under Obama  —  The United States has inadvertently killed between 64 and 116 non-combatant civilians in drone and other lethal attacks against terrorism suspects in places not considered active war zones, the Obama administration said Friday.

How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front  —  IN the summer of 1916, a young Oxford academic embarked for France as a second lieutenant in the British Expeditionary Force.  The Great War, as World War I was known, was only half-done, but already its industrial carnage had no parallel in European history.

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.

Judge: Mississippi's “religious freedom” anti-LGBTQ law violates religious freedom  —  The law favors some religious beliefs — specifically, anti-LGBTQ ones — over others.  —  When Mississippi passed its anti-LGBTQ law earlier this year, state lawmakers argued that they were defending religious freedoms.

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.

People writer quits in most scorched-earth way possible  —  Longtime People writer Sara Hammel quit this week with a blistering resignation letter to editorial director Jess Cagle and other top editors.  —  “It's not me, it's you,” she wrote in the email blast on Monday.

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.

Welp, That's Weird.  But of Course It Is  —  So Tim Watts is my new best friend in the Australian federal parliament.  MP Tim Watts.  Needless to say, we're pals now because he's getting bombarded by the Trump campaign asking for money to fight ‘Crooked Hillary’.  Among other things, Tim's a Labor party member.

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.