Court bars anti-abortion group from releasing new videos of Calif. company officials  —  LOS ANGELES - A temporary restraining order has been issued preventing an anti-abortion group from releasing any video of leaders of a California company that provides fetal tissue to researchers.

U.S. Dentist Who Killed Famous Lion Illegally Hunted Bear  —  The American dentist who killed a well-known lion in Zimbabwe also has a felony record over the hunting of black bear in in Wisconsin, court documents show.  —  Walter James Palmer sparked outrage when it emerged he killed Cecil the lion …

University of Cincinnati Officer Indicted in Shooting Death of Samuel Dubose  —  A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge in what a prosecutor called “a senseless, asinine shooting” of an unarmed man during a minor traffic stop.

Federal Judge Threatens To Hold IRS Commissioner, DOJ Lawyers in Contempt of Court over Lerner  —  (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced that U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys …

Will Dana, Rolling Stone's Managing Editor, to Depart  —  Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted.  —  Mr. Dana, whose planned last day is Aug. 7 …

Author Ronald Kessler On Bill Clinton: ‘He Has A Blonde, Busty Mistress’  —  PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Author Ronald Kessler defends secret service agents and makes some sensational claims about former Presidents in his new book, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents.

Former Valley Brook police officer arrested on sex crimes complaints  —  Former Valley Brook police officer Courtney Breanne Schlinke, 21, was arrested on 33 complaints, including 16 counts of rape by instrumentation, nine counts of lewd acts with a child under 16 and eight counts of oral sodomy, records show.

Hillary Clinton's former spokesman turns over 20 boxes of emails  —  Long-time Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines handed the State Department 20 boxes of work-related emails taken in part from a personal email account, State officials said Wednesday, calling into question the extent …

‘Law & Order’ director busted on child porn charges  —  TV director Jason “Jace” Alexander was busted on child-porn charges for allegedly promoting a video showing a girl stripping and masturbating, according to the Westchester County DA's office.  —  Alexander, 50, of Dobbs Ferry …

Congressman Chaka Fattah and Associates Charged with Participating in Racketeering Conspiracy  —  A member of Congress and four of his associates were indicted today for their roles in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes that were intended to further the political …

Wall Street Money Dries Up for Lawmaker After Anti-Gay Remarks  —  Representative Scott Garrett, who heads an influential House subcommittee overseeing the U.S. capital markets, is facing a revolt by corporate and Wall Street donors after he reportedly made anti-gay remarks at a private meeting of Republican lawmakers.

Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that's simply not true!”  —  Trump's a carnival barker, but funnier than Stewart.  Richard Dawkins is a joke.  Sanders and Drudge earn approval  —  In part one of our three …

Couple shot to death near Pryor; daughter survives shooting  —  A Pryor couple was shot to death and their daughter wounded at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when they stopped to help a man who had run out of gas on the Crow Reservation.  —  A suspect, identified by a Wyoming Highway Patrol dispatcher …

France deploys riot police to stem flow of migrants from Calais  —  France deployed 120 riot police to Calais on Wednesday to bolster security after thousands of migrants tried to enter Britain through the Channel Tunnel in recent days, with the resulting chaos leading to at least one death.

Louie Gohmert: Gay Islanders Would Die Out, Proving Gay Marriage Is Wrong  —  In a speech to a group of young conservatives last week, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, called for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in retribution for their ruling in favor …

Today's Exhausted Superkids  —  There are several passages in the new book “Overloaded and Underprepared” that fill me with sadness for American high school students, the most driven of whom are forever in search of a competitive edge.  Some use stimulants like Adderall.  Some cheat.

National Review's Bad Conscience  —  Why the magazine is quick to accuse liberals of fascism and Nazism  —  National Review has a fraught relationship with National Socialism.  In recent years, the magazine has taken to likening liberals and socialists to fascists and Nazis.

Top GOP fundraiser calls on Sen. Mark Kirk to step down.  Then takes it back. … One of the Illinois GOP's premiere fundraisers has called on U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., to abandon his re-election race, saying it likely is unwinnable.  The statement is spurring a flurry of phone calls and activity among worried Republicans.

Illegal immigrant ordered freed by feds now suspected of murder in Ohio  —  An illegal immigrant suspected of murdering one woman, wounding another and attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl was released earlier this month by Ohio sheriff's deputies after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents told …

More Millennials Living With Family Despite Improved Job Market  —  Five years into the economic recovery, things are looking up for young adults in the U.S. labor market.  Unemployment is down, full-time work is up and wages have modestly rebounded.  But, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis …