I Ran the C.I.A. Now I'm Endorsing Hillary Clinton.  —  During a 33-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, I served presidents of both parties — three Republicans and three Democrats.  I was at President George W. Bush's side when we were attacked on Sept. 11; as deputy director of the agency …

Insiders to Trump: Drop out  —  Amid widespread chatter that Donald Trump could drop out of the presidential race before Election Day, Republican insiders in key battleground states have a message for The Donald: Get out.  —  That's according to The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of activists …

AJC poll: Hillary Clinton has slim lead over Donald Trump in Georgia  —  Democrat Hillary Clinton has built a slim lead over Donald Trump in Georgia after one of the worst weeks of the Republican's campaign, and the Libertarian presidential ticket cracked double-digits, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.

Three Arrested for Distribution of Methamphetamine  —  In late July, the Organized Crime and Narcotics (OCN) Division received information about a possible distributor of methamphetamine and immediately began an investigative inquiry.  Methamphetamine is listed as a Schedule II controlled substance …

Trump backs off false Iran video claim  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump backed off a false claim Friday morning, admitting he had not seen a video of a $400 million payment being unloaded from a US plane in Iran.  —  The Republican nominee had claimed at rallies twice this week that such a video existed …

Harvard Republican Club Refuses to Endorse Donald Trump  —  In every presidential election since 1888, the members and Executive Board of the Harvard Republican Club have gathered to discuss, debate, and eventually endorse the standard-bearer of our party.  But for the first time in 128 years …

Op-Ed Bernie Sanders: I support Hillary Clinton.  So should everyone who voted for me  —  A Bernie Sanders supporter holds a sign urging party unity at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia on July 27.  (EPA)  —  The conventions are over and the general election has officially begun.

FBI Agent Apparently Egged on ‘Draw Muhammad’ Shooter  —  ‘Tear up Texas,’ the FBI agent told the ISIS terrorist, just before he shot up a crowded hall.  Did the G-Man help convince the jihadi to attack?  —  Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent.

Clinton: I ‘short-circuited’ on ‘truthful’ email answer  —  Hillary Clinton acknowledged Friday that she may have “short-circuited” when she claimed in a recent interviews that FBI Director James Comey said she was “truthful” about her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

‘No Doubt’ President Obama is a Muslim, Donald Trump's New York Campaign Chair Says  —  Donald Trump's New York State campaign co-chairman insisted in an interview with the Observer that President Barack Obama is a Muslim—and pointed to his policies in the Middle East as evidence.

Todd Akin Calls Trump a ‘Breath of Fresh Air’  —  Todd Akin says the uncompromising rhetoric of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “refreshing,” and he sees parallels between the calls to boot Trump from the presidential race and his own brush with the ire of the party's establishment …

ObamaCare Is Failing Exactly The Way Critics Said It Would  —  Aetna's decision to abandon its ObamaCare expansion plans and rethink its participation altogether came as a surprise to many.  It shouldn't have.  Everything that's happened now was predicted by the law's critics years ago.

How Paul Krugman Made Donald Trump Possible  —  Liberal pundits write viciously about Trump.  But they wrote viciously about Romney, McCain, Bush... and they wonder why people outside their circle stopped listening.  —  His convention was called “one of the worst ever.”

Donald Trump Announces Economic Policy Team: 13 White Men  —  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced his economic policy advisory team on Friday — a collection of 13 white men.  —  While the list does not include any women or racial minorities, it does include five Steves.

How Donald Trump's ‘Rigged’ Claim Chips Away at Democracy  —  As public support turns against him, Donald Trump is suggesting without evidence that the election could be “rigged” by Democrats using vote fraud.  This claim threatens the norms of American elections and could provoke a damaging reaction among his supporters.

Episode 41: Decoding Evangelical Politics with Mike Cromartie  —  One of the surprises of the GOP primary campaign season was the strong support Donald Trump received from many—though not all—evangelical Christian voters.  Maybe the so-called “religious right” isn't as monolithic as the media supposes.

The chaos of the Olympics has arrived.  Fortunately, we have Bob Costas.  —  NEW YORK — The Olympics are a torrent of names, stats, narratives, results, commercials, montages and trivia about Kenyan runners and Italian fencers and Slovakian shot putters.  It is overwhelming.

The FDA just greenlit releasing mutant Zika-killing mosquitoes in Florida  —  Our sci-fi future just got a whole lot closer to becoming a reality, after the Food and Drug Administration gave the okay to a field trial that would release genetically modified Zika-killing mosquitoes in the Florida Keys.