Today’s biggest stories:
- Donald Trump, in a press conference, called on Russia to hack the ostensibly personal emails Hillary Clinton deleted from her personal server. (Paul Ryan and Mike Pence, meanwhile, were busy asking Russia not to intervene in the U.S. election. Incidentally, here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch.)
- Trump also said something inscrutable about Putin using “the n-word.”
- Trump’s campaign manager, who himself has business ties to Russia, said that Trump will not release his tax returns to dispel concerns about his potential business ties to Russia.
- Silver-haired WikiLeaks guy Julian Assange says the DNC link was timed to hurt Hillary Clinton.
- At the Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton gave a long, sentimental speech about what Hillary is like as a human being. (It did not address his infidelity.)
- Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, and Jordan Davis’ mothers gave politically delicate remarks about police and gun violence.
- Per Gallup, Trump’s RNC speech was the least liked convention speech since 1996.
- Data that the NFL had touted as confirming an effective technique for reducing football concussions turns out to be a bunch of hot baloney.
- And would-be Ronald Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. will be released from a psychiatric hospital.
