Trump Campaign Paid Don Jr.'s Lawyer $50,000 Two Weeks Before Email Scandal … About two weeks before the release of emails showing Donald Trump Jr. seeking opposition research from attorneys representing the Russian government, his father's reelection campaign began paying the law firm …

Comey's Writing a Book, and Publishers Are Eager to Pay Big Money for It  —  James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director who was fired in May by President Trump, is writing a book about his experience in public service, including his tumultuous and brief tenure in the Trump administration.

‘Simply Unworkable’: Insurers Blast New Provision In Senate Health Bill  —  The industry sounds just as angry as the patient advocates.  —  Two organizations representing the U.S. health insurance industry just called a new provision of the Senate Republicans' health care proposal …

Kamala Harris meets with Democratic elite in Hamptons  —  MORE FROM: … The Democrats' “Great Freshman Hope,” Sen. Kamala Harris, is heading to the Hamptons to meet with Hillary Clinton's biggest backers.  —  The California senator is being fêted in Bridgehampton on Saturday …

Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies  —  Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died July 15 after a long battle with cancer.  Mirzakhani was 40 years old.

Lessons on Labor Economics for the Owner of a Roofing Company in Nebraska  —  The NYT shows us that the skills shortage is real in an interview with Sarah M. Smith, the owner of a roofing company in Nebraska.  In the interview, Ms. Smith explains why she needs foreign workers, on H2-B visas …

Huge Manafort Payment Reflects Murky Ukraine Politics  —  KIEV, Ukraine — Paul J. Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, recently filed financial reports with the Justice Department showing that his lobbying firm earned nearly $17 million for two years of work for a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.

Catholic journal criticizes Trump ‘value voters’  —  Things Donald Trump has said about the Pope  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Two close confidants of Pope Francis have written an article in a Jesuit journal that strongly criticizes some American religious supporters of President Donald Trump …

Sandoval unmoved on health bill after meeting with White House officials; Price advises governors to disregard CBO  —  Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said a closed-door breakfast meeting on Saturday between Trump Administration officials and a large number of governors hasn't changed his position …

Teen who blasted ‘F-k Tha Police’ at cop's funeral booted from apartment  —  Julien Rodriguez (left) and Miosotis Familia  —  A cop-hating Bronx teen has been kicked out of his apartment for repeatedly blasting the rap song “F-k Tha Police” from the window as thousands of NYPD cops gathered …

Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’  —  BAGHDAD — Walk into almost any market in Iraq and the shelves are filled with goods from Iran — milk, yogurt, chicken.  Turn on the television and channel after channel broadcasts programs sympathetic to Iran.  —  A new building goes up?