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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Trump's head of black outreach: Rally-goers blurt N-word to show ‘frustration with the system’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Ashley Bell, Donald Trump's newly-appointed director of African-American outreach, excused the repeated use of the N-word and other epithets …

Hacker demonstrates how voting machines can be compromised  —  Concerns are growing over the possibility of a rigged presidential election.  Experts believe a cyberattack this year could be a reality, especially following last month's hack of Democratic National Committee emails.

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 …

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 …