Trump paid dearly to boost fundraising  —  The Donald Trump campaign's boasts of a formidable fundraising month in July spooked Democrats who feared their financial advantage could be slipping.  —  But a closer inspection of the campaign finance report filed just before Saturday's midnight deadline indicates …

David Duke Show Celebrates Trump's Breitbart Hire: We've ‘Taken Over the Republican Party!’  —  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rocked the political media world this week by hiring Breitbart.com honcho Stephen K. Bannon to be his campaign CEO, and while the move …

Turkish wedding suicide bomber was 12-14 years old, Erdogan says  —  Gaziantep, Turkey (CNN)The suicide bomber who killed 51 people at a wedding party in southern Turkey was between 12 and 14 years old, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday, according to state-run news agency Andadolu.

American journalism is collapsing before our eyes  —  MORE FROM:  —  Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president.  But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.

Louisiana governor: Donald Trump's visit ‘helpful’  —  Washington (CNN)The governor of Louisiana said Sunday that Donald Trump's trip to his state was “helpful” in getting the country's attention on the devastating flooding around Baton Rouge.  —  Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat …

Whole families are fleeing this tiny country and entering the U.S. in massive numbers  —  In 2014, a wave of unaccompanied kids from Central America caught the U.S. government off-guard when they flooded into Texas in record numbers, triggering what President Obama called an “urgent humanitarian situation.”

Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks: FAS  —  BERLIN (Reuters) - For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government plans to tell citizens to stockpile food and water in case of an attack or catastrophe, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported on Sunday.

Roommate drama lands Penn State sorority sisters in federal court  —  Molly Brownstein, a Pennsylvania State University senior, and her family describe her roommate Rachel Lader as a classic mean girl - a “monster” and an “expert bully, with a Ph.D. in intimidation.”

Sheriff Glenn Palmer makes his own rules in Grant County  —  The sheriff's office in rural Grant County consists of the sheriff, an undersheriff, two deputies and a small cadre of jail staff.  —  Then there's the army of volunteers.  —  In the past six years, Sheriff Glenn Palmer …

How Can America Recover From Donald Trump?  —  Donald Trump is heading to November like a certain zeppelin heading to New Jersey, in a darkening sky that crackles with electricity.  He is fighting crosswinds and trying new tacks — hiring the head of Breitbart News to run his campaign …