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.

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 …

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.

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 …

U.S. Reveals Death Toll From Airstrikes Outside War Zones  —  WASHINGTON — Partially lifting the secrecy that has cloaked one of the United States's most contentious tactics for fighting terrorists, the Obama administration on Friday said that it believed that airstrikes …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Live update: Hostage situation, shooting at Gulshan  —  11:45pm- Lori Ann Walsh Imdad, principal of American Standard School, wrote on her Facebook page: “Terrorists broke in and shot the Italian baker and his wife and took about 20 foreigners hostage.  This is a block from my place so I have a front row seat to the police action.”

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 …