Romney retreat puts spotlight on Trump's fundraising problem in critical stretch  —  Park City, Utah (CNN)Republican fundraisers are beginning to fret that Donald Trump does not comprehend the enormity of the challenge before him, warning that if he fails to execute the basic tasks …

Democrats Will Rally Around Hillary Clinton  —  Destroying Donald Trump is just too fun.  —  “We know that brother Trump is a narcissistic neofascist!”  Cornel West told a crowd of Bernie Sanders supporters here in Washington on Thursday, hanging onto the last syllable for crowd-riling effect.

Stanford rapist 'took photograph of his victim's breasts during attack - and shared it with swim team friends who deleted it after his arrest', police believe  — Police suspect that Brock Turner, 20, photographed the 23-year-old woman he raped outside a Stanford frat house

Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign?  —  Twenty-eight years ago, Jeff Weaver was a lowly campaign aide driving an obscure left-wing Congressional candidate around Vermont in a Yugo.  —  Now, Mr. Weaver is well known enough from his stinging appearances in the press and on television to be slammed by Cher.

The Queen's birthday has unleashed a pernicious new patriotism  —  This weekend's street parties are a front for a middle-class nationalism that celebrates the cruelty of austerity, and recasts the British empire as a force for good  —  f you're reading this, it's too late.

Michael Hubbard, Alabama House Speaker, Is Convicted on 12 Felony Ethics Charges  —  Michael G. Hubbard, the speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, whose sharp-elbowed approach to politics propelled the Republican Party to dominance in his state, was convicted Friday on 12 felony ethics charges …

Clinton's third-term dilemma  —  faces a unique dilemma on the 2016 campaign trail: How much to embrace President Obama, and how much to run away from him.  —  Obama remains a relatively popular figure, with a 51 percent approval rating from Gallup and a 90 percent approval rating among Democrats.

Despite Clinton claims, 2012 email had classified marking  —  EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton, from the moment her exclusive use of personal email for government business was exposed, has claimed nothing she sent or received was marked classified at the time.  —  But a 2012 email released …

High-Profile GOP Donor Meg Whitman Indicates She Is Likely to Support Hillary Clinton, Say Sources  —  Republican donor Meg Whitman, the high-profile Hewlett Packard Enterprise president and CEO, indicated at Mitt Romney's closed-door summit on Friday that she would likely be supporting Hillary Clinton …

What does Brock Turner's mom have to say?  —  In a letter to the judge, his mother writes about how awful it is that he'll have to register as a sex offender  —  But she doesn't mention the victim once  —  No one in Brock Turner's immediate family believed he deserved jail time after he was convicted …

Rabbi Michael Lerner Brings Down The House At Muhammad Ali's Funeral  —  Berkeley-based rabbi Michael Lerner spoke as a representative of the Jewish faith at Muhammad Ali's memorial service in Louisville today, and delivered a fiery sermon calling for a litany of social change …

Air Force has lost 100,000 inspector general records  —  The Air Force announced on Friday that it has lost thousands of records belonging to the service's inspector general due to a database crash.  —  “We estimate we've lost information for 100,000 cases dating back to 2004,” …

Exclusive: Studies find ‘super bacteria’ in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches  —  Scientists have found dangerous drug-resistant “super bacteria” off beaches in Rio de Janeiro that will host Olympic swimming events and in a lagoon where rowing and canoe athletes will compete when the Games start on Aug. 5.

A Trump Presidency Just Got a Lot Less Likely — and a Lot More Terrifying  —  Donald’s very good if very bad month.  —  In one sense, and one sense only, the events since Donald Trump became his party's presumptive nominee have been reassuring.  The ensuing weeks made clear that Trump …

Poll shows Clinton leading in Kansas; broad dissatisfaction with Legislature  —  Kansans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with their state government and with their choice of presidential candidates, according to a new poll released Friday.  —  But when given a choice between …

After Bernie, Does the Left Need a Rethink?  —  What to make of the fact that Sanders ran the campaign progressives have been dreaming of for years, and lost  —  For as long as I can remember, there's been a deeply held belief on the American left that if a Democrat would only stop pandering …

DEA Wants Inside Your Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs  —  The feds are fighting to look at millions of private files without a warrant, including those of two transgender men who are taking testosterone.  —  Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers …

The Diversity Profession  —  Who knew hush money could be so loud?  —  In May, Tennessee lawmakers banned all funding for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  The $436,000 that had been budgeted for the office will instead be put toward scholarships for minority students in engineering.