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.

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 …

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 …

Examining Donald Trump's Statements Today on Taxes  —  CHYE-CHING HUANG CHUCK MARR JOEL FRIEDMAN  —  Today's speech by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump included several statements on tax issues that could create mistaken impressions regarding current tax policies and the impact of several of Mr. Trump's proposals.

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?”

Polls: Clinton's Lead Over Trump Increases in Three Battleground States  —  Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump in three key battleground states after the conclusion of the political conventions, including in all-important Ohio, according to a trio of new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.

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

GOP buzzing about Fiorina as RNC head  —  Carly Fiorina's quiet outreach to state party chairs in recent days has top Republicans speculating that she's laying the groundwork for a Republican National Committee chairmanship bid.  —  Fiorina's advisers have reached out to more than a dozen …

Bernie Sanders Buys a Summer Home in North Hero  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is the proud new owner of a summer home on the Champlain Islands, Seven Days has confirmed.  —  The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.

Why Trump had better start buying TV ads  —  Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump has prided himself on not needing traditional paid television ads.  By May, he had spent $18.5 million on advertising — substantially less than Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz, slightly less than John Kasich.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘We ended up kissing and kissing led to other things’: Mother, 36, and son, 19, who fell in love when they met last year after she gave him up for adoption as a baby, say they'll go to JAIL to defend their relationship  — Monica Mares, 36, and her son Caleb Peterson, 19 …

Brazil Senate votes for Rousseff impeachment trial  —  The Brazilian Senate has voted to hold an impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff, who is accused of breaking the budget law.  —  The senate voted 59 to 21 in favour of going ahead with the trial against Ms Rousseff following …

Trump Ally Roger Stone: The Clintons Recently Had Four People Murdered  —  Blog ››› August 9, 2016 ››› ERIC HANANOKI  —  Roger Stone, a longtime ally and adviser to Donald Trump, is spreading the conspiracy theory that the Clintons recently had four people murdered …

Patti Blagojevich ‘dumbfounded’ as judge upholds ex-governor's 14-year prison term  —  Photos of Rod Blagojevich's resentencing hearing.  (Chicago Tribune)  —  A federal judge imposed the same 14-year prison sentence on Rod Blagojevich Tuesday despite pleas for mercy from the former governor, his wife and two daughters.

The Case For A Negotiated Republican Surrender To Hillary  —  It's time for Republican leaders to consider a negotiated endorsement of Hillary Clinton.  —  Barring a Wikileaks revelation showing Clinton to be a secret member of ISIS, she seems to be on a glide path to the White House.

More and more women are now dying in childbirth, but only in America  —  More women are dying in childbirth in the US than in any other developed country.  And experts say the problem is likely to keep getting worse.  —  You can see how alarming the issue is in this chart.