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 …

Lewandowski Revives Birther Conspiracy Theory About Obama  —  Former Donald Trump campaign manager and CNN contributor Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday night suggested that President Obama did not release his Harvard transcripts in order to hide that he was not born in the United States.

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 …

Meg Whitman, Calling Donald Trump a ‘Demagogue,’ Will Support Hillary Clinton for President  —  Meg Whitman, a Hewlett Packard executive and Republican fund-raiser, said Tuesday that she would support Hillary Clinton for president and give a “substantial” contribution to her campaign in order …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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?

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 …

DNC cleans house after emails  —  Three top staffers are leaving the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in a staff shakeup spurred by the leak of damaging emails about the primary battle between Hillary Clinton  —  The CEO of the DNC, Amy Dacey, is departing, as are communications director Luis Miranda …

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 …

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.

Trump: Americans should avoid stock market  —  suggested Tuesday that Americans should not place their retirement funds into the stock market, warning of “some very scary scenarios.”  —  In a phone interview with Fox Business, the GOP presidential nominee said that he isn't a big investor …

Donald Trump on Obama: 'He's concerned I'm going to win'  —  WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - Senior political correspondent Scott Thuman sat down with presidential nominee Donald Trump Tuesday, speaking about several subjects.  —  Here's what the GOP nominee had to say.

Trump and Putin: A Love Story  —  The attraction is mutual, but history shows who's really using whom.  —  Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Donald J. Trump are locked in a humid political embrace, which seems, at first glance, unlikely.  Putin grew up in postwar Leningrad.

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.

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 …

Fishtown vs. Belmont, 2016  —  In his brilliant and prophetic 2011 book, “Coming Apart,” my friend Charles Murray identified the stark social division that is defining this year's presidential election.  —  Murray's book was unabashedly about “the state of white America.”