Today’s biggest stories:
- No group has yet claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport that killed at least 41 people.
- A Zika-response bill failed in the Senate because of disputes over Obamacare, the Confederate flag, and Planned Parenthood. (Seriously.)
- For the first time in a good while, a majority of Americans think the U.S. is the world’s leading economic power.
- Donald Trump’s entire Elizabeth Warren strategy seems to revolve around mocking her contested claim of Native American heritage.
- An outlier poll showed Trump winning the presidential race, but outliers are outliers, so chill out. (Here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch.)
- Here is your guide to Oakland’s crazy/disturbing/huge police sex scandal.
- And two transgender Democrats who happen to both be named Misty just became the first transgender major-party candidates for national office. Sometimes good things happen! (One good thing a day, usually, and then everything else is bad.)
