UNITED STATES: Donald Trump is expected to receive his first classified briefing today—but hasn’t tweeted about it. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn will join the candidate inside the FBI’s New York office.

NIGERIA: Emails released this week show a senior Clinton Foundation employee asked the Hillary Clinton–led State Department to help a top foundation donor. Gilbert Chagoury, a prominent Nigerian businessman of Lebanese descent, surfaced as the “key guy there” in just-released emails dating to 2009. Chagoury donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, and in 2009 he pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative.

WASHINGTON—New emails released today show a senior Clinton Foundation employee directly asked the Clinton-led State Department to help a top foundation donor.

The revelation is contained in 296 pages of State Department records Judicial Watch obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in May. According to the watchdog group, 44 of the email exchanges had not been previously released, bringing to 171 the number of known emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not turn over to the State Department.

If you, like me, are a frog sitting in the steaming waters of America, summer 2016, you’d be wise to buy a thermometer, or three, to better gauge the gathering boil. Democrats buoyed by eight years of Obama liberalism are unified behind a candidate awash in corruption, herself moved left by socialist rival Bernie Sanders.

The attacks on Jan. 20, 2012, began not so much as an explosion but as an earthquake.

“Whole buildings were shaking,” said secondary school vice principal Danjuma Alkali. “There was so much vibration that some people collapsed from it.” When the jolts stopped, with smoke rising and fire igniting all over the city of 10 million, it became quickly apparent the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram had pulled off the unthinkable.

WASHINGTON—Since 1997, the United States has designated 72 groups Foreign Terrorist Organizations, or FTOs, under provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, including groups such as al-Qaeda and Hamas. The secretary of state makes the designations, and, using information gleaned from enhanced surveillance of FTOs, reports to Congress on potentially threatening terrorist activity.

WASHINGTON—Just hope you’re never trapped inside the work of a suicide bomber. Victims say the first sensation is not the sound of a powerful explosion but the ear-splitting suck of air going out of the room, of every noise imaginable concentrated into a tiny, painful point in the middle of your skull—all before the terrifying and truly deafening fright of the actual explosion. The force and flash will knock you to the floor, leave you breathless for minutes, sightless at least a bit longer, deaf for longer still, perhaps a lifetime, and forever traumatized.