Trump refuses to endorse Paul Ryan in GOP primary: 'I'm just not quite there yet'  —  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump escalated his war with his own party's leadership Tuesday by refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul D. Ryan or Sen. John McCain, two of the GOP's highest-ranking elected officials …

Trump spokeswoman blames Obama for 2004 death of Captain Khan  —  Donald Trump's spokeswoman blamed the policies of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan, despite the fact that Khan died in 2004.  —  “It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton …

U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed  —  Obama administration insists there was no quid pro quo, but critics charge payment amounted to ransom  —  WASHINGTON—The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release …

Trump insists ‘great unity’ in campaign  —  Donald Trump's campaign has perhaps never been as unified as it is now, the Republican nominee tweeted Wednesday, amid a cascade of recent reports suggesting anything but internal harmony.  —  “There is great unity in my campaign …

George W. Bush Delivers Critique of Donald Trump's Policies  —  Former president stops short of putting his remarks in the context of the 2016 presidential campaign  —  Without naming Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, former President George W. Bush delivered an incisive critique …

Obama's CIA Director Wants to Stick Around for Clinton  —  If Hillary Clinton wins the U.S. presidential election in November, John Brennan would like to continue his post as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.  —  Current and former U.S. intelligence officials tell me Brennan …

Black Lives Matter: from a lie to a revolution  —  The Black Lives Matter movement emerged as a force just about a year ago, following the killing of Ferguson, Missouri thug Michael Brown by a white police officer who was defending himself.  The movement was predicated on a lie …

Trump at rally: ‘Get the baby out of here’  —  Donald Trump asked a woman with a crying baby to leave his rally in Ashburn, Virginia, on Tuesday.  —  The GOP nominee initially suggested that he did not mind the disruption.  —  “Don't worry about that baby.

Trump loses bid to end Trump University lawsuit before trial  —  A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's pretrial bid to throw out a lawsuit brought by Trump University students who said they were defrauded by its real-estate seminars.

Immigration: The Issue that Got Away?  —  America's political, business, media and academic elites have forced on the rest of us a radical mass immigration regime that we neither wanted nor voted for.  When our immigration laws were rewritten in 1965, at the height of the Democratic Party's power …

BREAKING: Muslims Firebomb Bus in Paris (VIDEO)  —  According to reports, a gang of Muslim migrants in Paris allegedly ambushed and burned down a passenger bus in the Saint-Denis district around 1 AM on the night of Thursday, the 28th of July 2016.  —  The masked men set up a road block …

'There isn't really anything magical about it': Why more millennials are avoiding sex  —  Sam Wei, a 26-year-old financial analyst in Chicago, has not had sex since her last relationship ended eighteen months ago.  She makes out with guys sometimes, and she likes to cuddle.

Op-Ed To fight Trump, journalists have dispensed with objectivity  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump discusses U.S.-Russia relations at a news conference in Doral, Fla. on July 27.  (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)  —  Why are the rules of journalism being rewritten this election year?

AMERICA'S ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES ARE SCARILY EASY TARGETS  —  This week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump openly speculated that this election would be “rigged.”  Last month, Russia decided to take an active role in our election.  There's no basis for questioning the results of a vote that's still months away.

Clinton Raised Almost $90 Million in July, Campaign Says  —  Donald Trump has struggled to close Clinton's fundraising lead.  —  Hillary Clinton raised $63 million for her coffers in July, her biggest one-month haul to date, as the Democratic Party officially named her its nominee for the White House, her campaign said Tuesday.

How Jeff Zucker Made CNN Great Again … It's the second day of the Democratic National Convention, and Jeff Zucker is huddled with his CNN staff on the ground in Philadelphia.  Unlike most cable news network chiefs, he is painstakingly involved with the minutiae of hourly coverage …

Heads roll at the DNC  —  With just three months until Election Day and the Democrats' official party apparatus struggling to right itself from months of dysfunction and the scandal caused by the WikiLeaks email hack, interim Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile cleaned house Tuesday with the ouster of three top officials.

Democrats make a play to turn Arizona blue  —  PHOENIX — It has been two decades since Arizona's red-state status was in doubt in a presidential election.  But that was before Donald Trump and his build-a-border-wall platform won the GOP primary and inflamed anti-Republican sentiment among Latino voters.

The Soul-Sick Leadership Elite in America  —  The New York Times digs into the DNC email dump: … Too bad that we now have to depend on leaks from Putin moles to know what's going on in our country, but the donor stroking industry revealed in these emails is anything but secret.