Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing.  —  Good morning.  I'm here to give you an update on the FBI's investigation of Secretary Clinton's use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State.  —  After a tremendous amount of work over the last year …

An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees  —  My name is Dana Schwartz and I'm an entertainment writer at the Observer, the paper owned by your publishing company.  On July 2, as I'm sure you're aware (and have probably been wringing your hands about for the last three days) …

GOP # NEVERTRUMP TRAITORS - HILLARY DELIGHTS IN YOU, FOR SHE CAN'T WIN WITHOUT YOU  —  Ironic, tragic, but not unexpected - amidst America's Independence Day celebrations the Ruling Class put another boot on our neck to snuff liberty's life out of We the People.

Flag burning leads to Urbana man's arrest  —  What's your opinion?  Submit a Letter to the Editor here  —  URBANA — Within hours of a Fourth of July Facebook post showing him burning an American flag, a 22-year-old Urbana man found himself under arrest and under fire — from all corners of the Internet.

Why President Obama Campaigning For Clinton Is Historic  —  No president has campaigned strongly for his chosen successor in at least 100 years.  —  Today's event, with President Obama campaigning for Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state and one-time rival, in North Carolina is remarkable for that reason.

It's a Bad Time to Buy an iPhone  —  Whether or not Apple's next overhaul of the iPhone meets your needs, you should still wait until September to commit to a new phone  —  Will Apple wow you in September?  WSJ's Joanna Stern wraps up the latest reports on the next iPhone and suggests ways to keep your current iPhone running longer.

Trump supporter: ‘Mexican restaurant refused to serve me’  —  An Orange County woman claims she was tossed from a Mexican restaurant Sunday, not for too much tequila — but for too much Trump.  —  Esther Levy, 61, of Warwick, said an employee at the popular Cancun Inn eatery in Sugar Loaf chucked …

The bullies of Black Lives Matter  —  Toronto's legendary Pride Parade is a festival of inclusiveness - a good-natured rainbow coalition that embraces every letter of the LGBTQ alphabet.  It's so inclusive that even straight people march in it.  Its message is: Loud, proud and unbowed.

Nate Silver is happy to be wrong  —  Nate Silver is giving Donald Trump a 19 percent chance of becoming president - and that makes him a little nervous, as well it should.  —  No, it's not because he failed to predict Trump's albino-swan victory in the Republican primaries …

Yield Curve Shows 60% Chance of Recession, Deutsche Bank Says  —  The so-called yield curve suggests there's a 60% chance of a U.S. recession occurring in the next 12 months, according to analysts at Deutsche Bank, led by Dominic Konstam.  The calculations attach the highest probability …

Bad Debt Piled in Italian Banks Looms as Next Crisis  —  Brexit vote compounded strains in banking system burdened by sour loans; ‘Italy is the patient that is sickest’  —  MILAN—Britain's vote to leave the EU has produced dire predictions for the U.K. economy.

‘Financially unstable’ Connecticut Obamacare co-op now under state supervision  —  Connecticut's financially “unstable” Obamacare health-insurance co-op was placed under state supervision on Tuesday, as regulators said 40,000 people covered by the company will ultimately have to find new plans for the coming year.

Putin's Puppet  —  If the Russian president could design a candidate to undermine American interests—and advance his own—he'd look a lot like Donald Trump.  —  Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West—and that plan looks a lot like Donald Trump.

Chicago police investigate Pirates infielder in sexual assault claim  —  Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang sits in the dugout during a game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, on May 29, 2016.  —  Chicago police are investigating a sexual assault allegation …

I'm Worried Future Will Murder Russell Wilson  —  Russell Wilson is in real danger of being murdered by Future ... so claims Russell's fiancee, Ciara.  —  Ciara just filed legal docs in her defamation lawsuit against baby daddy Future, in which she lays out various threats Future has made.

Newt Gingrich Is The Donald Trump Of Politics  —  Gingrich, a finalist to be Trump's running mate, leaves a trail of bankruptcies, lawsuits and unpaid debts.  —  National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he wants a running mate who …

The strange death of liberal politics  —  The world is changing in ways the British left cannot comprehend.  —  A lesson of the past few days is the danger of groupthink.  Along with the major international institutions, the assembled might of establishment opinion - in the CBI and TUC …

Obama: ‘Sasha tweets’ but that doesn't make her qualified to be president … President Obama on Tuesday used his daughter's social media use to mock Donald Trump  —  During his first campaign appearance for Hillary Clinton  —  , Obama said Trump is just as qualified to serve as president as his 15-year-old daughter Sasha.