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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) had little to say in response to Donald Trump's comments about defending the United States' NATO allies.

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Roger Ailes, who built Fox News into a cable news powerhouse, resigned Thursday amid swirling allegations of sexual harassment.

Former Sen. Scott Brown, a Donald Trump supporter, explained to TPM that Trump's threats to back out of the U.S.'s NATO obligations were merely a negotiating tactic, and said he was not worried that a President Trump would refuse to defend NATO allies from Russia because of where Trump's wife was born.

The NBA is pulling the 2017 NBA All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina because of the state's anti-LGBT law, it announced Thursday.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado bed and breakfast owner armed with just a length of rope helped save a black bear with a giant plastic container stuck on its head.

The Illinois Republican Party on Wednesday revoked credentials from one of its delegates to the Republican National Convention who made racially charged comments online and used the social media handle "whitepride," The Chicago Tribune reported.

Donald Trump's business lawyer said Thursday that Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) refusal to endorse his party's nominee is unjustified and Cruz is nothing but a "whining baby."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday was forced to reassure NATO allies that the United States will support them after his party's nominee was remarkably hesitant about backing Baltic states in need of defense.

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As a south Florida community grapples with an election official’s decision to relocate a polling site from a local Islamic center, one local Republican has come out squarely against the mosque.

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge presiding over a racial profiling case against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona handed down the first round of punishments Wednesday for the lawman's decision to prolong his signature immigration patrols months after he was told to stop.

Trump's destabilizing comments about NATO prompted a Sen. Lindsey Graham tweetstorm and are giving even the John Boltons of the world heartburn. But Bolton will still support him.

A top Republican Party official said Thursday that Sen. Ted Cruz’s refusal to endorse Donald Trump is as good as a vote for the Democrats.

So much fallout from Ted Cruz's non-endorsement speech last night. Some of the choice moments:

Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) did not mince words when responding to Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) refusal to endorse Donald Trump during his speech Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention.

John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, said Thursday morning he was "disturbed" by Donald Trump's recent remarks about NATO, according to the Palm Beach Post.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) thinks he made the right move by skipping out on this week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, particularly after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was booed off stage for declining to endorse Donald Trump.

In the midst of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, newly-minted Republican nominee Donald Trump is tied with Hillary Clinton, 44-44, in a Suffolk University poll of likely Ohio voters.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) surmised in a tweetstorm Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "very happy man" after Donald Trump gave some startling responses to The New York Times about how he'd handle foreign affairs.

After sparking an uproar by relocating a polling site from a local mosque over anonymous complaints from residents, a south Florida elections official met with mosque leaders to try to make amends—but she made no offer to reinstate it as a polling place.

Donald Trump's campaign team is reportedly checking and rechecking the speech he will give Thursday at the Republican National Convention to make sure it isn't plagiarized, The New York Times reported.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia's police union is condemning Hillary Clinton for allowing relatives of people killed by police to speak at the Democratic National Convention without giving equal time to families of fallen officers.

During MSNBC's coverage of the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, pundit Chris Matthews asked "Saturday Night Live" cast member Michael Che who he thinks is the "funniest black guy."

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Federal police in Brazil have ordered the detention of 12 people who allegedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group via social media.