Hillary Fest: The Democratic National Convention gets under way today in Philadelphia amidst sweltering heat, some of it coming from Donald Trump, but most of it from the Democrats’ own kitchen.

After the release of 20,000 internal emails to Wikileaks, many of them revealing that the DNC improperly favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced she’s resigning at the end of the convention. Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman, was dumped from the speaker lineup and is struggling to even be allowed to gavel the convention to its open and close.

“I told you long time ago that the DNC was not running a fair operation, that they were supporting Secretary Clinton,” Sanders said yesterday on ABC News. Trump says the same thing, and he’s no Democrat.

Hillary Clinton is left to win over the Sanders supporters who think they got screwed.This is a throwback to the conflicted and disorganized Democratic Party we used to know and love.

Then there’s Trump. The three major election polls completed since the end of the Republican convention have Trump leading. LA Times/USC, Trump + 3 percent; Gravis, Trump + 2; CNN/ORC, Trump + 3.

Also, the temperature could reach 100 degrees today in Philadelphia.

Politi-Salad: The Clinton campaign claims that Russian hackers released the DNC emails to help the candidacy of Donald Trump. The DNC said in June that it had been tapped by the Russians — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who toyed with the idea of running for president himself, expressed dismay over the candidacy of Donald Trump and endorsed Hillary Clinton.

State of Siege: Turkey is undergoing an enormous political purge in the wake of a failed military coup that had been intended to knock out President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

As many as 10,000 people have been detained and the government is being cleaned of people suspected of sympathizing with the attempted coup. Erdogan is threatening to lift the ban on the death penalty in Turkey. He declared a state of emergency and ordered the closure of 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions.

Guilty Until Innocent: The International Olympic Committee yesterday stopped short of banning all Russian athletes from the Rio games and left it to the individual sport federations to decide who’s guilty of doping. But the committee did say in a statement that, ““all Russian athletes seeking entry to the Olympic Games Rio 2016 are considered to be affected by a system subverting and manipulating the antidoping system.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin claims the doping charges against his athletes are a politically motivated smear to make him look bad.

The IOC ruling may just be a cop out. With the games opening Aug. 5^th, the sport federations have almost no time to vet hundreds of Russian athletes.

Nation: Two people are dead and 17 wounded after a shooting at a Florida nightclub. It happened at Club Blu in Fort Myers, during a teen event billed as a “Swimsuit Glow Party.”

>A wildfire outside Santa Clarita, Calif., has grown to 34 square miles, burned 18 homes, and killed at least one person. Hundreds of people have been forced to evacuate. The body of an unidentified person was found inside a burned out vehicle.

Wheels: Despite dangerous storms and two crashes, Britain’s Chris Froome won the Tour de France for the third time in four years.

The Biz Page: Communications juggernaut Verizon has agreed to buy the struggling internet portal Yahoo! for $4.8 billion. Evidently that’s the going price for a tech company that doesn’t know where it’s going. Maybe they could Google it.

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