Donald Trump's “Star of David” Hillary Clinton Meme Was Created by White Supremacists  —  LIKE MIC ON FACEBOOK:  —  Donald Trump tweeted a meme Saturday that used dog-whistle anti-Semitism to announce that his political rival, “Crooked Hillary,” had “made history.”

Blast in Central Park near Elie Wiesel's funeral severs man's foot; police suspect fireworks mishap (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)  —  A blast in Central Park severed the left foot of a young man visiting New York from Virginia Sunday, witnesses said.  —  The NYPD's bomb squad was investigating …

How America celebrates the 4th of July: The numbers … You may think the way we celebrated Independence Day in 1777 was different and in many ways that would be true.  However there are some similarities.  Ramon Padilla, Summer Bedard and Jerry Mosemak  —  American flag?  Check.  Hot dogs?

Trade and Jobs: A Note  —  Given Trump's economic policy speech - well, “policy” speech - it seems time to brush up on trade and jobs, an issue I used to write a lot about.  The big story in the academia/policy space lately has been the work of Autor et al, who in two papers have estimated large losses from Chinese import penetration.

Income for top 1% in America rose twice as fast in 2015 than it did for the remaining 99%  —  WASHINGTON — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top 1% of households surging 7.7% to $1.36 million.

Milo Yiannopoulos: 50% of Gays Will Vote for Donald Trump After Orlando Islamist Massacre (VIDEO)  —  This weekend Milo Yiannopoulos joined the Russia Today Network to talk about Donald Trump, globalists, guns and the threat of Islam to gay people everywhere.

The Craziest Convention Moments You've Never Heard Of  —  A legion of political journalists is heading to Cleveland this month with a sense of anticipation that's been absent for decades: at long last, a national convention with the prospect that something unexpected might actually happen.

‘God wants you to die’: Dhaka's long night of terror  —  To recreate this narrative we used witness accounts, shared directly with CNN or with friends and family who recounted them to us.  We also used information from news briefings and gathered by CNN staffers in London, Hong Kong, Dhaka and Atlanta.

Week of terror underscores a ‘desperate’ Islamic State  —  A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Baghdad marketplace, killing more than 100 people.  The Karada district was packed with people who had gone out to socialize after breaking the Ramadan fast.  —  Three cities in separate countries hit …

Eric Trump: Biased media the worst part of society  —  Eric Trump in an interview Sunday attacked a Washington Post article that found his father, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, donated only $10,000 to charities over seven years, millions less than he has publicly claimed.

Gary Johnson: Trump says ‘racist’ things and should be disqualified from presidency  —  Gary Johnson: Trump a ‘racist,’ should be disqualified  —  Washington (CNN)Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Donald Trump says “racist” things and should be disqualified from becoming president …

The Myth of Cosmopolitanism  —  NOW that populist rebellions are taking Britain out of the European Union and the Republican Party out of contention for the presidency, perhaps we should speak no more of left and right, liberals and conservatives.  From now on the great political battles …

Car bombs target Baghdad shopping districts, 126 dead  —  (CNN)Iraq's capital was once again the scene of bloody carnage this weekend, with two separate car bombs killing at least 126 people.  —  The first detonation occurred Saturday on a busy shopping street in the central Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada …

Biden and Obama rewrite the rulebook on college sexual assaults  —  Last month, Vice President Biden penned a searing letter to the victim in a notorious Stanford University rape case.  “I am filled with furious anger,” he wrote, “both that this happened to you and that our culture is still so broken.”

Booker stokes speculation about Clinton VP job  —  Washington (CNN)New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is now referring questions about whether he is being vetted as a potential running mate for Hillary Clinton to her campaign — a shift from as recently as two weeks ago, when he flatly denied he was in the running for the job.