Intelligence community investigating covert Russian influence operations in the United States  —  U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election …

Megan Rapinoe Kneels For Anthem at NWSL Match  —  The 31-year-old from Redding, Calif., displayed support for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick Sunday night, kneeling while the national anthem was played before a Seattle-Chicago match.  —  BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. …

Mexicans gave Donald Trump the hostile welcome he deserved  —  After all his lies and poisonous rhetoric about us, he came to Mexico to try to be civil.  But it's too late for that, Donald  —  exico was the focus of the global lens last week thanks to an unexpected and dreadful event …

Duterte tells Obama not to question him about killings  —  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned President Barack Obama on Monday not to question him about extrajudicial killings, or “son of a bitch I will swear at you” when they meet in Laos during a regional summit.

This study shows American federalism is a total joke  —  Voting for state legislators is dominated by feelings about the president.  —  Republicans dominate America's state governments — even in some of the country's most liberal states.  —  Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio …

Young Blacks Voice Skepticism on Hillary Clinton, Worrying Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — When a handful of liberal advocacy organizations convened a series of focus groups with young black voters last month, the assessments of Donald J. Trump were predictably unsparing.

Giuliani: Clinton acted ‘with criminal intent’  —  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed Sunday that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “acted intentionally and with criminal intent” in regard to the private email server she used while secretary of state.

Donald Trump Does Detroit  —  So, after weeks of preaching his sinister sermon of black pathology to mostly white audiences as part of his utterly fake “black outreach” — which is in fact the effort of a bigot to disguise his bigotry — Donald Trump finally brought his message before a few mostly black audiences.

Revolution against ‘rich parasites’ at utopian Burning Man Festival as ‘hooligans’ attack luxury camp  —  It is supposed to be a utopian vision of peace and love but this year's Burning Man Festival has been marred by “hooligans” carrying out a “revolution against rich parasites”.

Are baby boomers turning out to be the worst generation?  —  I have seen the best minds of my generation, to steal a phrase from the late Allen Ginsberg, driven to heights of self-absorption, advocating policies that assure the failure of the next.  Nothing so suggests the failure of my generation …

IF LOOKS COULD KILL Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin in tense G20 standoff as the famously hostile pair fail to reach a breakthrough on Syria  —  Grinning Putin shakes hands with stony-faced Obama after US President was snubbed by Chinese hosts  —  PICTURED

Jim Sleeper Gets It Wrong in ‘The New York Times’  —  This morning, readers across the country woke up to a New York Times op-ed by Yale University lecturer Jim Sleeper that contains patently false charges about FIRE and me.  —  I've deliberately ignored Sleeper's multiple screeds over the past year.