Trump's Ambiguous Wink Wink to ‘Second Amendment People’  —  And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin got assassinated.  —  His right-wing opponents just kept delegitimizing him as a “traitor” and “a Nazi” for wanting to make peace with the Palestinians and give back part of the Land of Israel.

Emails Renew Questions About Clinton Foundation and State Dept. Overlap  —  WASHINGTON — A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.

Clinton Up 6 on Trump in Two-Way Race in Bloomberg National Poll  —  The findings suggest damage has been done to one of Trump's main calling cards, his business expertise.  —  McCormickJohn  —  Hillary Clinton has retained most of the bounce she received after the Democratic National Convention …

Paul Ryan weathers his primary but GOP's populist storm still rages  —  JANESVILLE, Wis. — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) reveled in the aftermath of his commanding and expected primary victory Tuesday against Paul Nehlen, a Donald Trump-inspired opponent, by ordering cheese curds and beer for his supporters.

Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half  —  I don't normally post about politics (I'm not particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics).  But this weekend I saw a hypothesis …

RNC suffers spate of Trump-related departures  —  The Republican National Committee has seen a spate of departures in recent months related to its embrace of Donald Trump, whom some former staffers felt uncomfortable supporting.  —  In recent months, deputy press secretary James Hewitt …

What Intelligence Briefings Can Tell Us About Candidates  —  The no-longer-presumptive nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties will soon start receiving periodic classified intelligence briefings, with the first one coming perhaps this week.  Rarely has this routine ritual received …

Inside Clinton's GOP recruitment plan  —  Day by day, the defectors are trickling out: Republican elected officials, bold-faced names from the George W. Bush administration, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, all repudiating Donald Trump.  —  In one burst on Monday, 50 former Republican national …

The Nauru files: 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention  —  Exclusive: The largest cache of documents to be leaked from within Australia's asylum seeker detention regime details assaults, sexual assaults and self-harm

Donald Trump Says ‘I Want to Debate Very Badly.’ But He Has Conditions  —  ‘I renegotiated the debates in the primaries, remember?’ he tells TIME  —  Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will commit to three debates this fall with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, but may try to re-negotiate …

Layton police sergeant hospitalized after Subway worker allegedly puts drugs in his drink  —  LAYTON — A Subway employee deliberately put illegal drugs into a Layton police sergeant's drink Monday, causing the man to be hospitalized, investigators say.  —  Tanis Lloyd Ukena, 18 …

Wealthy Swedes Asked To Give Up Their Country Homes For Migrants  —  Authorities in Norrtälje are asking homeowners to give their houses up for newly arrived migrants after around 30 marched to protest their accommodation.  —  In a targeted mailshot residents were asked: “Does your country house stand empty in winter?”