| Republican voters: We want more Donald Trump Posted:  His rivals want him to drop out of the race but Republican voters don't, a new poll shows.
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| U.S. attorney general faces potential minefield with Clinton email investigation Posted: 26 Jul 2015 10:05 AM PDT  The latest controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email system while secretary of state is not only a possible drag on her presidential campaign, but it also creates a potential headache for Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The inspectors general for the State Department and intelligence community on Friday disclosed that an internal review of Clinton's system concluded some emails contained classified information and that the inspectors general had sent a non-criminal "referral" to the Justice Department over the matter. Lynch and her department must now determine what to do next -- including whether to open a criminal investigation -- and whatever she decides will be under intense scrutiny, especially by Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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| U.S. candidate Huckabee: Obama marching Israelis to 'door of the oven' Posted: 26 Jul 2015 02:05 PM PDT  Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has denounced the deal reached by the United States and other world powers on Iran's nuclear program by saying President Barack Obama is marching Israelis "to the door of the oven," a reference to the Holocaust. The head of the Democratic National Committee on Sunday demanded an apology by Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor whose comments came in an interview with a conservative website on Saturday. "This president's foreign policy is the most feckless in American history," Huckabee told "Breitbart News Saturday." "It is so naive that he would trust the Iranians.
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| Missing Florida teens' boat found overturned and empty Posted: 26 Jul 2015 02:28 PM PDT  (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday afternoon found an overturned and empty boat belonging to two teenage boys who went missing off the Florida coast during a fishing expedition two days ago, the service said. The 19-foot single-engine boat was located off the coast of Ponce Inlet, a town about 180 miles north of Jupiter, where the boys were last seen, the Coast Guard said in a statement. Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, both 14, remain missing.
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| Firefighters make progress against Western U.S. wildfires Posted: 26 Jul 2015 03:22 PM PDT  Firefighters made progress Sunday against three wildfires burning in Montana and California, aided by cooler temperatures overnight. A blaze in the Sierra foothills near Lake Tahoe in California was burning rapidly toward the north despite calming overnight, and evacuation orders remained in place for several communities, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Investigators do not yet know the cause of the blaze, dubbed the Lowell Fire, which started Saturday and prompted evacuation orders for the communities of You Bet, Red Dog, Lowell Hill and Chalk Bluff, the agency said.
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| Some Guantanamo inmates would go to U.S. under new plan: Obama aide Posted: 26 Jul 2015 04:30 PM PDT  A plan being drafted for closing the Guantanamo military jail will call for the transfer to U.S. prisons of possibly dozens of inmates deemed too dangerous to release, President Barack Obama's counter terrorism adviser said, setting up a fight with congressional opponents. Outlining the White House proposal that will soon be sent to Congress, Lisa Monaco, one of Obama's top national security aides, told the Aspen Security Conference on Saturday that the United States would step up the transfers of 52 detainees cleared for resettlement in other countries. The plan calls for the rest of the inmates at the U.S. naval base in Cuba to be brought to the United States to "Supermax" or military prisons for trials or continued military detention, Monaco said.
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| Trump surge among Republican voters shows no sign of abating Posted: 26 Jul 2015 08:44 AM PDT  Donald Trump's wild ride to the front of the Republican presidential field showed no signs of abating Sunday, with a new poll showing him with a big lead in a key early primary state. The NBC/Marist poll had the trash-talking billionaire with a seven point lead in New Hampshire and just two points behind the leader in Iowa, another closely watched early primary state. A CNN/ORC poll, meanwhile, found that most Republicans voters want to see him stay in the race and 22 percent thought he would be their party's eventual nominee, ahead of every other candidate except Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor whose brother and father were presidents.
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| Obama: Kenya at 'crossroads' between peril and promise Posted: 26 Jul 2015 02:42 PM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Declaring Kenya at a "crossroads" between promise and peril, President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the nation of his father's birth to root out corruption, treat women and minorities as equal citizens, and take responsibility for its future.
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| 2016 Republicans use Trump, TV to make debate cut Posted: 26 Jul 2015 05:07 AM PDT  AMES, Iowa (AP) — Rick Perry is attacking Donald Trump's credibility and branding the billionaire businessman "a cancer on conservatism." Rick Santorum, a conservative stalwart, popped up on a TV program popular with liberals. Lindsey Graham set his cellphone on fire.
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| Paris police open fire on car at Tour de France barricades Posted: 26 Jul 2015 10:00 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Paris police were searching for four occupants of a car that struck a taxi and tried to crash barricades set up near the Tour de France finish line on Sunday morning, drawing police fire hours before the arrival of cyclists and spectators. Police said they didn't suspect terrorism.
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| Lafayette theater gunman spent weeks before rampage drinking beer at a motel pool Posted: 25 Jul 2015 04:42 PM PDT  The gunman who opened fire on Lafayette moviegoers before killing himself spent the final weeks of his own life drinking and tanning poolside at a pay-by-the-week motel.
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| Clinton says she's confident about proper handling of emails Posted: 25 Jul 2015 07:44 PM PDT  WINTERSET, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday she never knowingly sent or received classified information using her private email server and did not know what messages were being cited by intelligence investigators as examples of emails containing classified information.
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