Chaos erupts on GOP convention floor after voice vote shuts down Never Trump forces  —  CLEVELAND — The Republican party came within a whisker of reaching the unity it had long sought Monday.  What it got instead was convention floor chaos.  —  After mounting for weeks …

Trump campaign guts GOP's anti-Russia stance on Ukraine  —  The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won't call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.

Murdochs Have Decided to Remove Roger Ailes — the Only Question Now Is When  —  Roger Ailes's tenure as the head of Fox News may be coming to an end.  Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James — co-chairmen and CEO, respectively, of parent company 21st Century Fox — have settled on removing …

Horror as 19 people are hospitalised by 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an AXE and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in German train rampage before police shot him dead as he fled the scene  —  A teenage Afghan refugee shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before hacking at passengers during an axe and knife rampage on a train in Germany.

Michelle Van Etten, Soon-to-Be RNC Star, Peddles Pills that Make Alex Jones ‘Crazed’  —  A marketer who sells pills based on pseudoscience just landed a primetime speaking slot at the RNC.  Among her fans: Infowars' Alex Jones, who says the supplements make him “crazed and aggressive.”

AP EXCLUSIVE: SECRET DOCUMENT EASES IRAN NUCLEAR CONSTRAINTS  —  VIENNA (AP) — Key restrictions on Iran's nuclear program imposed under an internationally negotiated deal will ease in slightly more than a decade, cutting the time Tehran would need to build a bomb to six months from present estimates …

Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All  —  “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business.  Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.  —  Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz's sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale …

Ryan: Trump ‘not my kind of conservative’  —  , the chairman of the GOP convention here, said Monday he believes that Donald Trump  —  is a conservative — just “not my kind of conservative.”  —  “He's not my kind of conservative, but I come from a different part and wing of the party,” …

My husband is a Deputy Sheriff in Lee County, Alabama and tonight a Deputy on his shift went into Taco Bell in Phenix City, AL and was told that they don't serve cops.  A lady waiting for her food spoke up to say that she was about to ask for a refund because she didn't want to eat somewhere with a cop.

Freddie Gray case: Judge acquits Lt. Brian Rice of all charges … Prosecutors in Baltimore have failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction in the Freddie Gray case, with Circuit Judge Barry Williams acquitting Lt. Brian Rice of all charges related to Gray's arrest and death.

The End Of A Republican Party  —  Analysis by Harry Enten.  —  Research by David Nield.  —  Legend has it that after leveling Carthage in the Third Punic War, Roman army generals ordered that the city's fields be sown with salt so that they'd lie fallow for years, Roman generals …

The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government.  They got Trump.  —  Trumpism may have parallels in populist, nativist movements abroad, but it is also the culmination of a proud political party's steady descent into a deeply destructive and dysfunctional state.