POLITICO — Minutes before Ted Cruz took the stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick cornered the senator, huddling with him in a last-ditch effort to coax an endorsement of Donald Trump. It didn't work.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Americans have negative views of both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. He comes off as a little worse. In a new Associated Press-GfK poll, she's viewed as more qualified, civil and compassionate than Trump, but voters are somewhat more likely to view her as corrupt.... (more)

NBC NEWS — Unsettling footage obtained by NBC News shows the moments leading up to the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. The video, taken by Scott's wife, does not clearly show the exact moment he was shot by police on Tuesday. Scott is seen on the ground surrounded by police officers moments after the shots were fired.... (more)

HEAT STREET — Violence again erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina, following a police shooting that left an armed black man dead. But the national media are largely ignoring -- or burying -- a key fact about the case in order to fit Charlotte into a larger "trend" of racially charged cop shootings nationwide: the police officer involved in the Charlotte shooting was black.... (more)

POLITICO — President Barack Obama used a pseudonym in email communications with Hillary Clinton and others, according to FBI records made public Friday. The disclosure came as the FBI released its second batch of documents from its investigation into Clinton's private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.... (more)

THE HILL — President Obama on Friday vetoed legislation that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S courts, setting up a high-stakes showdown with Congress. "I recognize that there is nothing that could ever erase the grief the 9/11 families have endured," Obama wrote in his veto message. "Enacting JASTA into law, however would neither protect Americans from terrorist attacks nor improve the effectiveness of our response to such attacks."... (more)

BLOOMBERG — Carbon dioxide doesn't kill climates; people do. And the world would be better off with fewer of them. That's a glib summary of a serious and seriously provocative book by Travis Rieder, a moral philosophy professor and bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A Georgia woman exercised her Second Amendment rights early Friday morning and repelled three armed home invaders, killing one. Surveillance video from a Gwinnett County home just outside Atlanta shows a woman charging forward at three men who just broken into the house at about 4 a.m., authorities said. The local restaurant manager unloaded all her rounds in self-defense, resulting in the death of one suspect in the driveway.... (more)

RENEWAMERICA — Recently, actor Zach Galifianakis sat down with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on his show "Between Two Ferns" and asked her a barrage of pointed questions everyone else is asking themselves. The most relevant, undoubtedly, was, "As Secretary, how many words per minute could you type?" – followed by "How does President Obama like his coffee? Like himself? Weak?" Midway through the six-minute exchange, Hillary remarked, "I really regret doing this." CLICK HERE to see the full interview on YouTube.... (more)

RUDY TAKALA — The Obama administration should put the brakes on a transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority away from U.S. control scheduled to take place at the end of the month, a regulator on the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on Sept. 16 has been charged with first-degree manslaughter. District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler filed the charges Thursday against Officer Betty Shelby, 42, after she was captured on video shooting Terence Crutcher, 40.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The House's investigative committee voted Thursday to hold Hillary Clinton's chief tech staffer in contempt of Congress after Bryan Pagliano failed, for a second time, to show up and testify about the secret emails of his former boss.... (more)

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — Former Speaker of the House John Boehner has cashed out, and nobody is surprised. Boehner, as he passes through the revolving door to K Street lobbying giant Squire Patton Boggs, is following a road well traveled.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Former top communist, college professor, and "Black Power" advocate Angela Davis has picked a new cause on the road to liberation – animal rights. In a major speech in black-ruled South Africa, at the 17th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, she said animals were "sentient beings who endure pain and torture as they are transformed into food for profit, food that generates disease in humans whose poverty compels them to rely on McDonald's and KFC for nourishment."... (more)

CHARLOTTE OBSERVER — Protests turned violent for a second night in Charlotte after Tuesday's fatal police shooting of a black man. Late Wednesday, Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency for the city and deployed the National Guard and State Highway Patrol troopers to assist local police.... (more)

CNN — ISIS is suspected of firing a shell with mustard agent that landed at the Qayyara air base in Iraq Tuesday where US and Iraqi troops are operating, according to several US officials.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Immigration drains the government, sapping as much as $296 billion a year from federal, state and local taxpayers while depressing wages, at least in the short run, according to an authoritative study released Wednesday by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The White House threatened Wednesday that President Obama would veto two bills aimed at curbing the impact of his so-called "ransom" payment to Iran for the release of American hostages.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — He admitted that the IRS bungled tea party applications and that he gave wrong information to Congress, but Commissioner John Koskinen told lawmakers Wednesday he didn't mean to mislead anyone and said ousting him from the troubled tax agency would stall the progress he has made in cleaning things up.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — I do not usually go out of my way to publicly disagree with National Review editorials, but I respectfully dissent from our piece calling for the impeachment of IRS commissioner John Koskinen. He shouldn't be impeached. He should be imprisoned.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — With only five days until the first presidential debate, Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton holds a 7-point lead in a head-to-head matchup with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to a new poll released Wednesday.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Ted Cruz supporters were alarmed Wednesday at suggestions that he was on the verge of endorsing Donald Trump. They worry that the Texas senator could squander his brand as a fighter -- and goodwill earned among many through his stubborn refusal to back his party's nominee -- if he caves with nothing to show for it.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump suffer historic levels of unpopularity as nominees for their respective parties, but the news media is still less popular.... (more)

INFOWARS — Speaking at a panel discussion on diversity in the intelligence community Thursday, Brennan revealed how his previous vote for Communist Gus Hall had resurfaced during his first polygraph test at the agency.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The weekend's terrorist attacks in New York and New Jersey were fortuitously timed for Garden State governor Chris Christie: Not only did he get to project steely determination in a sudden crisis; the jihad diverted attention from the explosive start of the Bridgegate trial. Opening to the New Jersey jury in the case against two of Christie's most trusted (but now former) aides, a federal prosecutor argued that the governor knew about the 2013 lane shutdown at the George Washington Bridge while it was happening.... (more)