Trump easily earned the 1,237 delegates needed to capture the nomination. But sporadic boos could be heard as some states attempted to award delegates to Trump's Republican primary competitors. Trump's home delegation of New York put him over the top, announced on the convention floor with Trump's children standing nearby. "Congratulations Dad, we love you," Donald Trump Jr yelled while declaring that the state would award 89 votes to his father.

Particularly outraged was the Washington DC, delegation, which held its convention in March and attempted to award 10 votes to Marco Rubio and nine to John Kasich. But convention officials announced the rules merit Trump be awarded all 19 delegates from the nation's capital.

"This is an outrage, and this is a reason the Republican Party is turning off a lot of voters," a Kasich delegate from DC said on MSNBC.

Lawmakers backed Trident’s renewal 472 votes to the 117 who voted against maintaining the costly nuclear deterrent. Parliament held a heated debate on the issue Monday afternoon, during which Scottish National party MPs and Labour leader Jerermy Corbyn spoke out against Trident’s renewal.

British PM Theresa May showed strong support for the deterrent program, confirming that if necessary she would approve a nuclear strike resulting in the mass loss of lives. May responded with a firm “yes” after SNP’s George Kerevan asked if she was “personally prepared to authorize a nuclear strike that can kill 100,000 innocent men, women and children?”

“I have to say to the honorable gentleman, the whole point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know that we would be prepared to use it, unlike some suggestions that we could have a deterrent but not actually be willing to use it, which seem to come from the Labour party frontbench.”

The Trident program includes the potential replacement of the four submarines stationed at Faslane naval base on the west coast of Scotland. The submarines carry up to eight missiles and can be fitted with up to 40 warheads. The approximate cost for their replacement is said to be £31 billion ($41 billion).

Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg expressed full support for the Turkish government during a telephone call with President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday. But he went on to warn that there could be no room for military coups in a NATO member state. The tough words from the secretary-general will fuel rumours that Turkey could be kicked out of NATO because of the instability it brings to the military alliance.

Officials even suggested that Turkey’s continued membership in NATO and its aspirations of joining the European Union could be at stake. Meeting in Brussels, Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union foreign ministers called on Mr Erdogan to show restraint in the wake of the failed coup, even as he continued to round up political opponents and as Turkey debated whether it should reinstate the death penalty to deal with the plotters.

“Obviously, NATO also has a requirement with respect to democracy, and NATO will indeed measure very carefully what is happening,” Mr Kerry said. “And my hope is that Turkey is going to move in ways that do respect what they have said to me many times is the bedrock of their country.”

But the scale of the crackdown in the wake of the attempted coup in Turkey has rattled Western leaders. Alongside the members of the military, the Turkish government also dismissed thousands of judges, who seemingly played no role in the military revolt.

“Democracy, freedom and the rule of law… For us, these words have absolutely no value any longer. Those who stand on our side in the fight against terrorism are our friend. Those on the opposite side are our enemy,” Erdogan told local leaders in Ankara on Wednesday, according to the DPA news agency.

Ankara is planning to deploy “an iron fist against terrorism” and “fight Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants” in the country’s south east Erdogan said. Turkey views all Kurdish militia that are also spread widely throughout Syria and Iraq as a direct national threat. Erdogan repeated Turkey will strike Kurds everywhere.

"Wherever you run, our soldiers, police and village guards will find you there and do what is necessary," the president said, referring to Kurdish militants. He also urged the authorities to “swiftly” end immunity from prosecution for pro-Kurdish politicians.

The conflict between the Turkish government and Kurdish population, who demand greater autonomy, has been continuing for decades. With several failed ceasefires between the sides, Ankara has been blamed by a number of human rights groups for putting civilian lives at risk in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast. In summer 2015, Ankara launched a military operation to crack down on Kurdish fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The violence ended a two-year truce.

Public policy has a major impact on our lives; that goes without saying. If the assumptions upon which policy is based are sound, there is a good chance that the resulting laws and regulations will have a positive influence on the country. But when the assumptions are driven by ideology instead of reason, the outcomes can be detrimental.

As a public watchdog, an independent press plays a vital role in providing accurate, fair, and balanced reporting of public policy debates. When the matters are contentious, the Press Council states that “a fair voice must be given to the opposition view”. However, in the controversial area of anthropogenic global warming, media reporting is not balanced. As a result, pro-global warmers have gained traction with their apocalyptic claims. In the process they have secured lucrative funding for salaries and projects, as well as gaining major influence over policy makers and governments.

Nor are they willing to let anyone cast doubt on the authenticity of their claims – in fact, it has reached the point where many of those who disagree are too afraid to speak out publicly, as the risk to their careers and reputations from vindictive attack has become too great.

Examples of the hate crimes being reported included both verbal and physical abuse. A nine-year-old from Manchester who allegedly told a classmate 'my dad told me not to sit next to Jews' and an eight-year-old from Humberside accused of telling someone to 'go back to Poland' are among those being investigated according to the Mirror. The three-year-old, who is also from Manchester, reportedly caused 'harassment, alarm or distress' to his victim.

Many of those being investigated are over racial or religious assault or slurs both in and outside the classroom but there are also incidents of arson and other more serious crimes. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton, NPCC lead for Hate Crime, told MailOnline: 'Children under 10 are below the age of criminal responsibility. They cannot be prosecuted for any offence. Police can take reports of any hate incident but in cases involving children under 10 police will not take any criminal action against a child. Police may however work with families, schools and other agencies to ensure that there is a proportionate and age appropriate response to these issues.' The shocking number of children being investigated comes as a spike in racially-led hate crimes are seen across the UK following Brexit.

In other words, Comey wants to render null and void the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution and completely destroy your privacy rights. The reason Washington wants to know everything about everyone is so that Washington can embarrass, blackmail, and frame on felony charges patriots who stand up in defense of the US Constitution and the rule of law, and dissidents who criticize Washington’s illegal wars, reckless foreign policies, and oppression of American citizens.

Washington’s demand for power has nothing to do with our security. It has to do with destroying the security that the US Constitution gives us. The security that Comey wants to protect is not our security or the national security of the United States. Comey’s intent is to make Washington secure despite its violations of statutory law and the US Constitution. The way Comey intends to do this is by intimidating, harassing, and arresting Washington’s critics.

Unfortunately, most Americans today, unlike their forebears, are too ignorant and uneducated to know the value of the privacy rights that our Founding Fathers put in the US Constitution. The imbeciles say nonsense such as: “I haven’t done anything wrong. I have nothing to fear”. God help the imbeciles.

If the American people were sufficiently sophisticated, they perhaps would wonder why such a large chunk of the US Senate had rather represent the FBI than the American people, their constituents who elected them to represent the people in the state, not a police power in Washington. Why are so many US senators more responsive to the FBI’s desire for Gestapo police power than they are to the civil liberties embodied in the US Constitution?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive her British counterpart on Wednesday to discuss Britain's decision to leave the European Union and its consequences, a German government spokesman said Monday. May is expected to arrive at 5:30 pm (1530 UTC) and attend a working dinner with Merkel.

"This will be an opportunity to discuss the bilateral relationship, cooperation on a range of global challenges, and of course how the UK and Germany can work together as the UK prepares to leave the EU," an unnamed UK government spokeswoman told the AFP news agency.

"Political developments in Turkey, the refugee question as well as the Brexit issue will be the focus of a joint discussion," German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.

From Berlin to Paris. The continental tour will move on to France when May is expected to travel to Paris for a bilateral meeting with France's president, Francois Hollande. May had spent six years as the UK's interior minister before running for the leadership of the UK's Conservative Party following the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron.

Brexit proponent and former London Mayor Boris Johnson, her surprise choice as new foreign minister, met with his European and US counterparts in Brussels on Monday. "We have to give effect to the will of the people and leave the European Union but... we are not going in any way to abandon our leading role in European participation," Johnson told reporters.

EU leaders insist Britain's negotiations for its departure from the bloc can only start once London invokes Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, setting a two-year countdown to its exit.

While most people fret about the fallout from Brexit, some experts believe Italy’s banking crisis represents a far greater threat to the eurozone.

The problem is that Italy’s financial system needs a substantial bailout, but EU “bail-in” laws prevent Prime Minister Matteo Renzi from undertaking one without first wiping out the banks’ shareholders and bondholders.

Renzi, however, is desperate to avoid this because it could cost him his political career. In Italy, tens of thousands of households and individuals have bought such bonds, and forcing the problems of the banks on the man on the street would make it impossible for Renzi to be re-elected. He argues that the rules, introduced after the financial crisis, should be waived because the market turmoil unleashed by Brexit has threatened Italy’s financial stability.

However, Brussels is refusing to budge, and senior banking sources believe Renzi could press ahead with a €40 billion bailout. Such a move would be the equivalent of throwing a hand grenade at the entire EU project. By flouting state aid rules, it throws into question the future of the banking union, a central pillar of the eurozone.

Also, by setting a precedent for bank bailouts, it paves the way for countries such as Portugal, where the financial system is also under strain, to suddenly do the same, therefore undermining the EU’s entire credibility. Forget the Greek crisis – this is Europe’s biggest test yet.