Today’s biggest stories:
- Donald Trump’s campaign nominated a prominent white supremacist to be a delegate to the Republican national convention. (The campaign says this occurred because of a “database error.” Damn databases!)
- Republicans in Congress, and in all the hills and dales of America, are nonetheless uniting around Trump as their candidate. (Here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch. And here’s a thorough breakdown of the people that Trump might pick as his running mate.)
- There is a line of thinking developing that Trump is running to Clinton’s left. This line of thinking is bad, and you shouldn’t think it.
- Barack Obama is going to be the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima.
- Primaries! They’re still happening, somewhere (West Virginia).
- Stephen Curry, the rain god, returned from injury to set the all-time NBA record for points scored in overtime.
- And Budweiser beers will be renamed “America” beers for the next six months. It’s the right thing to do.