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Donald Trump seemed to briefly forget his mission of fostering party unity at his meeting Thursday with congressional Republicans, when he reportedly went so far as to threaten Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). The Washington Post reports that the combative tone between the two arose virtually as soon as Flake introduced himself, which prompted Trump to remark, "You've been very critical of me." "Yes, I'm the other senator from Arizona — the one who didn't get captured — and I want to talk to you about statements like that," Flake reportedly said... Читать дальше...

Here's a good gauge for just how well Donald Trump's meeting Thursday with congressional Republicans went: Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) walked out wondering if his party's presumptive nominee had even a basic understanding of the Constitution.

Though Donald Trump is certain he wants to win the presidential election, he's seemingly not quite as sure he wants to accept the victor's spoils. In an interview with The New York Times published Thursday, the presumptive GOP nominee dodged answering the question of whether he'd actually accept the position of president if he beat Hillary Clinton, or if he'd consider being "the ultimate walk-off winner."

The House GOP Oversight Committee hearing Thursday briefly went off the rails when Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) seemingly forgot if the topic at hand was Hillary Clinton's private email server, or Lin-Manuel Miranda's bombshell historical hip-hopera. "Have you seen the Broadway production, Hamilton?" Mica asked FBI Director James Comey, entirely stone-faced. Comey responded that he hasn't yet seen it but he's "hoping to," though he had to fight to keep a straight face while answering.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) systematically destroyed Hillary Clinton's credibility during Thursday's House GOP Oversight Committee hearing, after he asked FBI Director James Comey to weigh in on the truthfulness of a series of individual statements Clinton made regarding her emails.

On Thursday, Britain narrowed down its picks for the next prime minister to two finalists — both of whom are women. Conservative Party members voted for either Home Secretary Theresa May or Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom to succeed current Prime Minister David Cameron, who announced his resignation following the historic Brexit vote last month. Justice Secretary Michael Gove was eliminated from the running after he won just 46 votes to May's 199 votes and Leadsom's 84 votes.

In a powerful interview the morning after Philando Castile was fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop, Castile's mother mourned not just her son, but also the entire law enforcement system. "You see them saying that there's no profiling, but there is," Valerie Castile said Thursday on CNN. "We're being hunted every day. It's a silent war against African-American people as a whole."

As Donald Trump continues to narrow his vice presidential short list, his son Eric has chimed in with a suggestion of his own.

House Republicans' excuses for skipping their Thursday meeting with Donald Trump are about as good as the kid without a pet saying his dog ate his homework. For instance, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) gave the painfully vague excuse of a "longstanding appointment downtown." Another GOP lawmaker insisted he had a scheduled doctor's visit at the time the party's presumptive nominee was slated to meet with congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill. And, Politico reports, another lawmaker mysteriously... Читать дальше...

Scrutiny of the police of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, following the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling by two officers early Tuesday finds the department's racial makeup is significantly different from the city it patrols.

Compared to Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump looks like he's hardly even trying to win the battleground states. While Clinton has spent a whopping $43 million on ads across nine battleground states, Trump has dropped a mere $929,000 — a margin of 46-to-1, NBC News points out. The states included in the tally are Florida, Ohio, Nevada, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor who has filed a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against the network's CEO Roger Ailes, seemingly has some video evidence that Ailes wasn't the only Fox employee who allegedly liked to comment on her appearance. In a video montage compiled by Bloomberg Politics, Carlson's co-hosts on Fox & Friends can be seen commenting on Carlson's appearance — be it her skirts or how "hot" she is — time and time again. At one point, Carlson even jokes... Читать дальше...

President Obama departs for Europe on Thursday in what's likely his last presidential visit to the continent that's currently in turmoil over the Brexit vote. Obama will first head to Poland for the annual NATO summit in Warsaw, which will likely focus on Britain's vote to exit the European Union, recent terrorist incidences, the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and Russia's hostility. Obama spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his departure, and he is set to meet with top European... Читать дальше...

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Federal Reserve policy makers indicated in their June meeting that they favored putting their plan to raise interest rates on hold until the impact of Britain's vote on its membership in the European Union became clear, according to minutes released Wednesday. The Federal Open Market Committee meeting took place just over a week before the U.K. voted to leave the EU. Fears over the Brexit fallout have intensified since the vote, as the British pound hit a 31-year low. U.S. stocks got a boost from the Fed news. Читать дальше...

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton's (D) home in St. Paul on Wednesday night, demanding he take action in response to the fatal officer-involved shooting of Philando Castile. An estimated 200 people were there as of early Thursday morning.

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that she would accept the FBI's recommendation not to file criminal charges over Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Lynch closed the government's investigation into the case, removing a cloud over Clinton's presidential campaign. After an uproar over a meeting she had with Clinton's husband, former president Bill Clinton, Lynch promised not to overrule the FBI. Congressional Republicans summoned... Читать дальше...

In the final hours of Monday, July 4, NASA's Juno spacecraft completed a tricky maneuver with pinpoint accuracy, and in doing so, became the second craft to enter Jupiter's orbit.

The ugly reality of America in 2016 is that laws are for the little people.

I have a rule about campaign "gaffes." If a candidate says something just once and if he'd take it back if you gave him the chance, then he ought to be forgiven. We all make slips of the tongue all the time, and they don't reveal some secret self that we've been trying to keep hidden. On the other hand, if a candidate says something repeatedly, especially even after he's been criticized for it, then it probably does represent a real sentiment that might tell you something important about him.

As he's done many times before, Donald Trump praised deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Tuesday.

Calvin Coolidge reportedly said that "if you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." Well, it seems that Europe and the Americas can see enough troubles rolling down the road that a few are getting past the ditch and to us. And we're frozen, like the proverbial deer in headlights, just staring as our own doom barrels down upon us.

What would Plato think of Zac Efron?

Well, Plato, by way of Donna Tartt, once quipped, "χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά," which translates to "beauty is harsh." Few modern actors embody this existential idea as deeply as Efron. Yes, he's rich and famous and hyperbolically sexy, a guy whose muscles test the pliability of human skin and who surely visits many thirsty millennials in their nocturnal fantasies. But under that swath of tan, veiny flesh and behind that piercing glare, there's an undeniable sadness. Читать дальше...

An international panel of judges is expected to rule against China in a long-running territorial dispute with neighboring country the Philippines. The ruling, which is likely to undermine China's unilateral claim of virtually the entire South China Sea, could cause the country to angrily lash out.

British politicians are great at resigning. It's what unites Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill. Over the years, Britain's aristocratic honor-based etiquette, combined with parliamentary procedure, has given the world the best example of the single most important virtue in any government: accountability.

It's been described as a "complex superstructure," "the male equivalent of a push-up bra," "a flourish," "an actual, live woodchuck," and "that thing." We are so struck by its ineffable qualities that we often can't remember what color it is: We've described it as gold, ginger, salmon, butter, and the yellow of both nicotine stains and baby chicks — shades of luxury, nausea, and vulnerability. Sometimes, our descriptions of it belie our apparent suspicion that a man can only grow so wealthy before... Читать дальше...