Full text: Donald Trump 2016 RNC draft speech transcript  —  Remarks as prepared for delivery according to a draft obtained by POLITICO Thursday afternoon.  —  Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.

Peter Thiel to tell RNC he's proudly gay  —  Cleveland (CNN)Peter Thiel is set to admonish the GOP for refusing to embrace LGBT rights on stage here tonight.  —  The tech billionaire will declare to the Republican National Convention that he is proud to be gay, a source familiar with Thiel's remarks told CNN.

Donald Trump's Un-American Acceptance Speech  —  There was no reference to the nation's history, its values, or even its armed forces.  There was only Trump.  —  I am your voice ... the mystical union of leader and nation.  Really, that refrain is the essence of Trump's authoritarian threat.

Liberals press Clinton not to pick Kaine for VP  —  Liberal Democrats are launching an eleventh-hour campaign against Sen. Tim Kaine  —  's presidential ticket.  —  The advocates say Kaine, a moderate who's risen to the top of the VP shortlist, should be disregarded both for his positions …

Why I just quit the Republican Party  —  The Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded by ending my 44-year GOP membership.  —  Here's why I bailed, quit, and jumped ship:  —  First, Trump's boorish, selfish, puerile …

Colorado town finds THC in its water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it  —  Colorado emergency management officials are heading to Hugo  —  A town on Colorado's Eastern Plains is warning its residents not to drink, bathe in or cook with its water because officials said evidence was found of THC …

Five ways Trump's convention was a success  —  The Republican National Convention came to a close on Thursday night after a dramatic week marred by a plagiarism controversy involving Melania Trump and a surreal scene in which Ted Cruz  —  was shouted off the stage.

Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman Fox Television Stations  —  Rupert Murdoch to Assume Role of Chairman and Acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network  —  21st Century Fox today announced that Roger Ailes …

Read Ivanka Trump's Speech at the Republican Convention  —  Ivanka Trump introduced her father at the Republican national convention Thursday, arguing that he is “color blind and gender neutral” and arguing he would fight for women's issues.  —  “As President, my father will change …

The World Looks at Trump, Confused  —  On the RNC's “America First” night, overseas reporters try to figure out what he's really talking about.  —  The theme of tonight's Republican National Convention is “Making America First Again”—a reference to our nation's place in the world …

‘I Alone Can Fix It’  —  Has any American political leader claimed so directly to embody the nation, to speak for it, to be its sole hope for redemption?  —  In 1968, Richard Nixon spoke of a nation torn apart by crime at home, and by wars abroad.  But, he promised, better days were ahead.

Nice truck attacker had accomplices, plotted for months: French prosecutor  —  The truck driver who killed 84 people on a Nice beachfront had accomplices and appears to have been plotting his attack for months, the Paris prosecutor said Thursday, citing text messages, more than 1,000 phone calls …

RNC Displays Tweet From White Supremacist As Trump Accepts Nom  —  As Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday night, a tweet from a white supremacist account was broadcast through the convention hall at Quicken Loans Arena. … User @Western_Triumph's tweet itself was generic …