Poll: Trump beats Hillary head-to-head  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton head-to-head, according to a new poll released Friday.  —  The poll by SurveyUSA finds that matched up directly, Trump garners 45 percent to Clinton's 40 percent.

Clintons personally paid State Department staffer to maintain server  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private e-mail server she used while heading the agency, according to an official from Clinton's presidential campaign.

At West Point, Annual Pillow Fight Becomes Weaponized  —  For generations, freshmen cadets at the United States Military Academy have marked the end of a grueling summer of training with a huge nighttime pillow fight that is billed as a harmless way to blow off steam and build class spirit.

Out with ‘Redskins’ — and everything else!  —  Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, also is the time for The Post and other sensitivity auditors to get back on — if they will pardon the expression — the warpath against the name of the Washington Redskins.

White Boy Rick to be resentenced; prosecutors appeal  —  Richard Wershe Jr., who gained notoriety in the 1980s as a drug dealer in Detroit, won his bid for resentencing.  Known as “White Boy Rick”, Wershe was sentenced to life in prison in 1988 when he was 18.  —  CONNECT

When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?  —  This Thursday, Aug. 3, 2015 photo made available by the Carter County Detention Center shows Kim Davis.  The Rowan County, Ky. clerk went to jail Thursday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples …

Hillary Clinton Relying on Southern Primaries to Fend Off Rivals  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is methodically building a political firewall across the South in hopes of effectively locking up the Democratic nomination in March regardless of any early setbacks in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.

Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit.  —  In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China's Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head.  As the girl's grandmother shouted, “Stop!  You've hit a child!” …

Refugees Who Could Be Us  —  WATCHING the horrific images of Syrian refugees struggling toward safety — or in the case of Aylan Kurdi, 3, drowning on that journey — I think of other refugees.  Albert Einstein.  Madeleine Albright.  The Dalai Lama.  —  And my dad.

YouGov poll: 64% want a border fence with Mexico — including pluralities of Dems, blacks, and Hispanics  —  Build it high, build it far, build it fast.  But build it.  —  You know who agrees with me on that?  Everyone.  Yes, even Hispanics.  —  Democrats split 44/43 in favor, the closest any group comes to outright opposition.

Sen. Ben Cardin: I will vote against the Iran deal  —  The writer represents Maryland in the U.S. Senate, where he is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  —  Throughout the process of evaluating the Iran nuclear agreement, I continuously returned to two fundamental questions …

Hillary Clinton to take women's issues out of silo  —  Hillary Clinton plans to launch a new initiative this weekend as she seeks to weave women's issues into every facet of her campaign instead of using them in a separate silo as she did in her unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid.

Insiders: Scott Walker the biggest loser of the summer  —  <p>It's been a cruel summer for Scott Walker and Martin O'Malley.</p><p> That's the assessment of this week's POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top activists, operatives and strategists in Iowa and New Hampshire.