Trump unpopularity fuels wide lead for Clinton in new Virginia poll  —  Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over Donald Trump in Virginia, with disdain for the Republican presidential nominee helping Clinton overcome her own vulnerabilities, a new Washington Post poll finds.

Mr. Trump's Foreign Policy Confusions  —  Donald Trump's speech on Monday was advertised as an attempt to redirect his campaign from a series of blunders to a more serious discussion of foreign policy, starting with combating global terrorism.  As such, it marked another test of his readiness to lead.

Jury: A.G. Kane guilty of perjury, obstruction, all other charges  —  Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction and other crimes after squandering her once bright political future on an illegal vendetta against an enemy.  —  KATHLEEN KANE TRIAL

Poll: Clinton Maintains Big Lead as Voters Doubt Trump's Temperament  —  The numbers were virtually unchanged since last week's poll.  Generally low favorability and negative attitudes among voters plague both candidates, however, as they make appeals to voters in key swing states in the weeks ahead.

GOP lays out case for charging Clinton with perjury  —  A pair of leading House Republicans on Monday laid out detailed instructions for the Justice Department to file perjury charges against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton  —  More than a month after first requesting …

President Obama ‘Tired’ of Talking About Donald Trump  —  President Obama took a brief break from his 16-day vacation on Martha's Vineyard to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on the island, where he made a strong case for Hillary Clinton as he seemed to brush off Donald Trump.

Rudy Giuliani forgets about 9/11 and claims that 'before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the' U.S.  —  You might want to get that bump on your head checked, Rudy.  —  Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday appeared to forget …

Rubio Stands By Claim That Trump Is A ‘Con Man’, Still Supports Him  —  In the final weeks of his 2016 presidential run, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) threw every insult in the book at Donald Trump, calling him a litigious, “orange” “con man.”  The Florida senator said Monday that he will not retract …

Trump may cost the GOP a generation of voters  —  People always remember their first presidential vote — their first participation in the largest decision of American democracy.  —  In high school, I was a rather awkward, nerdish history buff.  (My wife would dispute the verb tense.)

First Read: Clinton Has Owned the Airwaves in the General Election  —  Donald Trump calls for ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants to the US 1:53  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

Conservatives' Laughable Effort to Blame Liberals for Trump  —  The left predicted the GOP's white nationalist turn, but didn't cry wolf.  —  In the spirit of spreading culpability for the GOP's meltdown as thin as possible, The Daily Beast recently served up a new theory that lays blame …

Aetna pulling back from ObamaCare in blow to health law  —  In a blow to the health care law, Aetna — one of the largest health insurers in the country — announced Monday that it will significantly scale back its presence on the ObamaCare marketplaces next year.

Transgender rules for homeless shelters spark firestorm  —  Homeless shelters have become the latest battleground in the national debate over transgender rights.  —  The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is expected in September to finalize regulations that would allow people …

Larry Wilmore's ‘Nightly Show’ Cancellation And Late Night's ‘Unblackening’  —  What Comedy Central's cancellation of ‘The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore’ could mean for the future of diversity in late night.  (Hint: It's certainly not good!)  —  Late-night TV is experiencing, in Larry Wilmore's own words, an Unblackening.

Early Voting Limits Donald Trump's Time to Turn Campaign Around  —  Advisers to Donald J. Trump keep reassuring Republicans that there is still plenty of time to rescue his candidacy — nearly three months to counter Hillary Clinton's vast operation in swing states and get Mr. Trump on message.

Trump Adviser Says Nominee ‘Operates Now Almost Like A President’  —  Walid Phares, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump, said on Tuesday morning that the Republican nominee now acts more like a president, claiming that Trump listens to his advisers.  —  Phares comment came …

Gingrich: Clinton ‘lies about lying’ … backer and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Monday questioned how much information could be gleaned from notes from Hillary Clinton  —  's FBI interview.  —  “This is a person who has lied repeatedly.

Clinton Super-PAC Going Dark in Colorado and Pennsylvania  —  The group's chief strategist Guy Cecil said it would divert resources “to other states but also into other activities.”  —  The pro-Clinton super-PAC Priorities USA is suspending TV advertising in Virginia, Colorado and Pennsylvania until …

Brooklyn Man Charged With Killing Imam and Assistant Near Mosque  —  Two days after an imam and his assistant were gunned down after afternoon prayers in Queens, the police said late Monday that a man they had in custody had been charged in the killings.  —  The man, Oscar Morel of Brooklyn …