Zero Hedge | Speaking overnight in Australia, the Fed’s Loretta Mester said “helicopter money” could be considered to stimulate America’s economy if conventional monetary policy fails.

Breitbart | Sheriffs in North Carolina have alleged that staff at a Shelby fast food outlet verbally attacked them and then served them tainted food, reports say.

Daily Mail | A former US intelligence director has revealed that laptops seized from ISIS jihadis are filled up to 80 per cent with porn films.

McClatchy | Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has withered to 3 percentage points.

Daily Caller | President Obama referred to himself 45 times over the course of the speech he delivered Tuesday at the memorial service for the five police officers killed in Dallas last week.

AP | Republican Donald Trump campaigned alongside Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Tuesday evening, the latest in a series of public auditions as the billionaire businessman mulls his vice presidential pick.

Paul Joseph Watson | But is forced to delete tweets after backlash from BLM supporters.

Breitbart | The New Black Panthers plan to conduct armed protests outside the Republican convention site if open carry is legal in the area in which the protests are held.

CNN | The cable news channel suspended its ties with Newt Gingrich, one of the people on Donald Trump’s vice presidential short list.

Got News | Is GoFundMe for gang bangers and not cops?

Bizpac Review | Four off-duty police officers walked out on their security jobs at the Minneapolis Lynx game.

London Telegraph | Harassment of women is to be recorded as a hate crime in a bid to tackle sexist abuse.

RT | The Chinese government published a white paper on the same day in which it once again stressed that the sovereignty claims of the Philippines are “groundless.”

Sputnik | The so-called robot revolution may ride roughshod over people’s right to privacy, Gor Nakhapetyan, advisor to the Russian innovation center Skolkovo, told Sputnik.