2016 // Organizers say more than 1,000 people, including GOP delegates, dialed in for a conference call on Sunday night to hammer out details for a sweeping rules change that would unbind delegates at the Republican National Convention. http://cvote.it/1sNKlXl
2016 // To win the White House, Trump’s team is aiming to capture America’s Rust Belt — specifically, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin — where polls generally show him performing better than Mitt Romney did at this point in 2012. http://cvote.it/1sNJG8h
SUPREME COURT // End of conservative Supreme Court? Rumors fly that Clarence Thomas may be next to leave. http://cvote.it/1sNJrdj
LIBERALISM // “Why can’t the left distinguish conservative Christians from Islamic terrorists? http://cvote.it/1sNJqWP
SCIENCE // Birth control in drinking water: fish struggle to fertilize eggs three generations after exposure to contraceptive hormone, raising questions about the effects on humans. http://cvote.it/1sNKQAz
ON THIS DAY // 1963 – United States and Soviet Union will establish a “hot line.” http://cvote.it/1sNJ8iK
SAINT OF THE DAY // Saint Paulinus of Nola – http://cvote.it/Daily-Saint
DAILY READINGS // Today’s readings – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
BEAUTY // The Rievaulx Abbey in northern Yorkshire, England, once had hundreds of Cistercian monks and lay brothers.