* Trump suggests "second amendment people" should shoot Clinton if she becomes president. * Reminder: Trump hasn't spent a dime on TV advertising. * Momentum grows for boycotting the Dominican Republic, where racist immigration policy is deporting Haitians en masse. * Democrats in Congress break from Obama to condemn Brazil
* Away from Rio, Brazil's Senate begins impeachment against Rousseff. * Philippines presidents latest bad idea: calling the US ambassador a gay son of a whore on TV. * There's always a bit of truth to a dangerous punch line, especially when it's joking about taking
* Trump cant win if he loses Florida, but he only has one field office and no visible footprint in the state. * Right-wing commentators cycle through baseless theories about Clintons dire health. * Despite his former insistence, Trump now says he was being sarcastic when he said Obama founded
* Trump racks up $64 million in small donations during biggest fundraising period yet. * Citizens United turns the legal wall against foreign money in US elections into something more like a sieve. * Clinton could defeat Trump with capitalism, simply by pledging to grow the economy. * European-style welfare found to provide
* Since Philippines president Duterte took office last month, over 400 alleged drug traffickers have been killed. * Pivotal election in South Africa may wrest power away from the ANC. * Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega picks his wife to run as his vice presidential candidate. * Trump refuses to back Ryan or McCain'
* Philippines files landmark human rights case against 47 major carbon polluters. * International court orders former Chadian dictator Hissèn Habré to pay his 4700 victims up to $34,000 each. * Polls show that Turks are suspicious of every country that isn’t Turkey, but "levels of anti-Americanism are particularly
* Locals will be left with a still-toxic water supply after the Río Olympics. * The "Movement" is a vast Olympics bureaucracy that rewards higher-ups and treats athletes "like replaceable cogs." * Olympians complain about Río's lack of Pokémon Go. * Russia hosts the "Military
* How the Clinton campaign quelled an insurgency: with graciousness. * It took Trump to reveal that "the US electoral system is weak enough for the Russians to be able to influence it." * The Russian practice of “kompromat,” using information to smear politicians, is alive and well. * Government interference with
* Obama nearly steals Clinton's thunder at the DNC, and Joe Biden is ever his Biden-y self. * Hillary Clinton’s husband wore a fetching pantsuit at the DNC. * Trump encourages Russia to hack Clinton's emails, and contemplates endorsing its seizure of Crimea. * Later, Trump says he
* Five takeaways from the night that Hillary became the first female major-party nominee in US history. * Confirming the FLOTUS's speech: Historians have long acknowledged the role of slaves in building the White House. * The joke that Sarah Silverman didn't use at the DNC: "This
