Trump Campaign Blames Anti-Semitic Tweet on “Microsoft's Shapes”  —  Just when you think the saga of Donald Trump's not-so-subtle, likely accidental white supremacist dog whistle can't get any more exciting, Trump's Director of Social Media Dan Scavino proves us wrong.  Dan—take it away.

Fla. Dad Accidentally Shoots 14-Year-Old Son: 'The Gun Didn't Kill My Boy.  I Did'  —  A Florida father blamed himself for the “operating error” that resulted in him killing his 14-year-old son in an accidental shooting at a Sarasota gun range on Sunday afternoon.  —  “The gun didn't kill my boy.

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 …

BREAKING: After Hillary Interview, FBI Director to Make a Statement Tuesday  —  FBI Director James Comey will make a statement Tuesday at 11 am eastern from headquarters in Washington D.C. He will also take questions from reporters.  Over the weekend the FBI interviewed former Secretary …

EXCLUSIVE: This Is Trump's Foreign Policy, A Conversation With Top Trump Adviser Dr. Walid Phares  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “will not ask Japan or South Korea to invest in building nuclear weapons but he will speak with their leaders about how to create a safer …

A home that looks perfect, until bigotry rears its ugly head  —  Over a long weekend of fireworks, face paint and flags, Fernando Herboso couldn't stop thinking about the new America he encountered last week.  —  Herboso, 58, and his brother Carlos have their own real estate agency …

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 …

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.

The truth of cosmopolitanism  —  Ross Douthat suggests that cosmopolitans are their own tribe.  Let's break down that argument, shall we?  —  Ross Douthat is an excellent columnist, not in the sense that you always agree with his arguments so much as because disagreeing with him helps one refine one's own counterarguments.

Who Are All These Trump Supporters?  —  At the candidate's rallies, a new understanding of America emerges.  —  HE APPEARS  —  Trump is wearing the red baseball cap, or not.  From this distance, he is strangely handsome, well proportioned, puts you in mind of a sea captain: Alan Hale from …

The Theology of Donald Trump  —  SINCE Donald Trump assures us that the Bible is his favorite book, it's worth asking: Just what is his theology?  —  After Mr. Trump met with hundreds of evangelical Christians a couple of weeks ago, James Dobson, who is among the most influential leaders …

Washington's Hollow Men  —  The government/media power elite are spectacularly ignorant of the American people. … — T. S. Eliot  —  In Merced or Dayton, if an insurance agent, eager to help his wife facing indictment, barged into a restaurant where the local DA is known to lunch …

Wikileaks publishes Clinton war emails  —  WikiLeaks on Monday published more than 1,000 emails from Hillary Clinton  —  's private server during her time as secretary of State about the Iraq War.  —  The website tweeted a link to 1,258 emails that Clinton, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee sent and received.

PBS used some stock footage for its fireworks show, and people were not happy  —  If you were watching Washington's Fourth of July fireworks outside on Monday night and also happened to catch PBS's broadcast of “A Capitol Fourth,” you might have noticed something looked...a little off.