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 …

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 …

Katrina Pierson Implies Obama, Clinton Are to Blame for Humayan Khan's Death in 2004  —  Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson went off the deep end on CNN tonight, implying that something President Obama and Hillary Clinton did led to the death of Captain Humayan Khan.  —  Khan died in 2004.

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 Says He'll Spend More Than $500 Billion on Infrastructure  —  The proposal would amount to a massive new government program.  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed a plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure that costs “at least double” the amount that Hillary Clinton has floated …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

'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.

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 …

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 …

Documents Show Trump Officials Agreed to Limit Rally Size, Contradicting the Candidate  —  Oh, and that Colorado fire marshal Trump accused of being a Democrat?  He's a Republican.  —  When Donald Trump puts his foot into something, he just can't seem to get it out.

Environmental records shattered as climate change ‘plays out before us’  —  Temperatures, sea levels and carbon dioxide all hit milestones amid extreme weather in 2015, major international ‘state of the climate’ report finds  —  The world is careening towards an environment never experienced …

DONALD TRUMP'S MANY BUSINESS FAILURES, EXPLAINED  —  And while Trump is quick to boast that his purported billions prove his business acumen, his net worth is almost unknowable given the loose standards and numerous outright misrepresentations he has made over the years.

The Religious Right's Dangerous Bet On Trump  —  On July 17, 2015, Donald Trump received a caps lock-heavy campaign memo from one of his advisers containing instructions on how to communicate with a voter species that was especially exotic to the candidate at the time.

Trump Defends His “Rigged” Election Claim: “I Just Hear Things, And I Just Feel It”  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday defend his claim that the election will be rigged, offering no actual evidence but saying he hears and feels things.  —  “Well, I'm talking about at the voter booth,” Trump told CBS12 in Florida.

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.

‘My little sissy bear has left this earth’: Families grieve as 3 bodies are recovered from deep ravine  —  Coroner's investigators plan to rappel 900 feet down an Angeles National Forest ravine Tuesday to investigate the wreckage of a mangled pickup truck that may contain the bodies of three missing Fontana teenagers.