WBUR Poll: After Conventions, Clinton Up 15 Points Over Trump In New Hampshire 06:31  —  Play  —  According to a new WBUR poll of New Hampshire voters, Hillary Clinton is enjoying a dramatic post-convention bump and now leads Donald Trump by 15 points.  Our poll also shows Democrat Maggie Hassan …

Gaps in Melania Trump's immigration story raise questions  —  Nude photographs published this week are raising fresh questions about the accuracy of a key aspect of Melania Trump's biography: her immigration status when she first came to the United States to work as a model.

Media trumpeting Trump implosion, but is it real?  —  This is what a full-fledged feeding frenzy looks like.  —  With Donald Trump facing the roughest stretch of his candidacy, the media have moved from questioning his sanity to depicting a campaign in disarray and top Republicans still wondering whether they can dump the nominee.

President Barack Obama on Feminism, Michelle, and His Daughters  —  There are a lot of tough aspects to being President.  But there are some perks too.  Meeting extraordinary people across the country.  Holding an office where you get to make a difference in the life of our nation.  Air Force One.

How the Trump Presidential Campaign is Affecting Trump Businesses  —  At Foursquare, our data scientists are often called upon to analyze real world trends; we use Big Data to determine how commercial fortunes are rising or falling.  This year, politics and business are intersecting …

Erickson Angrily Tears Into Trump Boosters: You ‘Reflect the Evil Character of Your God’  —  Erick Erickson has been a #NeverTrump conservative for a while now, but something Trump said today finally pushed him to a place of extreme anger at his boosters.  —  Erickson was set off …

Sasha Obama lands summer job at Vineyard seafood joint  —  Sasha Obama, who has lived eight of her 15 years in the luxurious confines of the White House, is learning how the other half lives this summer.  The First Daughter is working the takeout window at Nancy's, a seafood restaurant on Martha's Vineyard.

LONDON TERROR: American woman dead and five injured in Russell Square stabbing rampage  —  A SOMALI teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed to death and five people injured in an attack in central London.  —  One person has been killed in a knife attack in Russell Square

A blind eye to sex abuse: How USA Gymnastics failed to report cases  —  THE PROMINENT OLYMPIC ORGANIZATION FAILED TO ALERT AUTHORITIES TO MANY ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY COACHES.  —  Top executives at one of America's most prominent Olympic organizations failed to alert authorities …

Missouri's head public defender assigns case to Gov. Nixon, cites overburdened staff  —  Fed up with what he says is the governor's failure to properly fund his overwhelmed office, the state's lead public defender ordered Gov. Jay Nixon this week to represent a poor person in Cole County this month.

Megyn Kelly Loses It Over Trump Rehashing Old Dirt: ‘What Is He Doing?!’  (VIDEO)  —  Fox News' Megyn Kelly couldn't conceal how baffled she was by Donald Trump's choosing to remind voters about his oldest campaign controversies on the trail this week.  —  After Trump tried to rehash …

Hanging Tough  —  Why we've made only minor changes to our Electoral College ratings since March  —  On March 31, we released our first general election map of the Electoral College.  With our self-imposed rule of permitting no cop-out “toss-ups” — a rule we'll try to hold to as we handicap …

A Hidden Portrait by Edgar Degas  —  Abstract  —  The preservation and understanding of cultural heritage depends increasingly on in-depth chemical studies.  Rapid technological advances are forging connections between scientists and arts communities, enabling revolutionary new techniques …

The ‘Trump Train’ flies off the rails, again  —  I wrote this article Monday about how the Donald Trump  —  campaign is in total meltdown.  I started with examples to prove the point.  However, in the last two days, several more examples have come to light that are worth mentioning …

The Political Process Isn't Rigged — It Has Much Bigger Problems  —  All right, I need to vent.  For months, I've watched Donald Trump decry as “rigged” everything from the Democratic primaries, the Republican primary rules (that's right, the same rules that helped him win the nomination) and the fall debate schedule.

Donald Trump did not actually watch an Iranian recording of that controversial money transfer  —  As Fox News reported on the controversial transfer of $400 million in cash to Iran in January, it repeatedly played dark, grainy footage of shadowy figures walking off a small private plane with bags with hand.