Borderline: Donald Trump, who has been insulting Mexico for a year, says he’s flying today to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto just hours before he is supposed to deliver a major speech clarifying his policy on immigration. It could be an interesting conversation. Peña Nieto is not popular in Mexico, but neither is Trump. The Mexican president has compared Trump to Mussolini and Hitler. The Republican candidate still says Mexico will pay for his wall. Trump piñatas have become popular in Mexico.

It’s Political: Arizona Sen. John McCain fought off a challenge by Kelli Ward to win the Republican nomination. Ward in interviews called McCain “old” and “weak.” He’s been a senator nearly 36 years and turns 80 on Monday. Also in Arizona, Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio won his primary, but he faces a tough general election and a criminal investigation. Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was kicked out of the Democratic Party chairmanship for favoring Hillary Clinton, fended off a primary challenge by a Bernie Sanders Democrat. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who announced after the presidential primaries that he was getting out of politics, then got back in, easily won the Republican nomination to return to his seat.

Permawar: The Islamic State announced that the man in charge of its propaganda is dead, but didn’t say what happened to him. Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the#2 man in ISIS, was “martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo,” the Muslim extremist group said in statement. American authorities suggest Adnani may have been killed in an airstrike, but they are still confirming. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that it has “documented and mapped” 72 mass graves containing the bodies of thousands of victims of ISIS purges. The AP says ISIS did little to hide its crimes and there may be hundreds more gravesites in territory they control.

Hermit Kingdom: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of his deputy minister for education, the South Korean government reports. The South says Kim found fault with the 63-year-old deputy premier’s “disrespectful posture” during a meeting Kim presided over in late June.

Road Kill: Traffic deaths spiked by 7.2 percent in 2015, the largest increase since Lyndon Johnson was president, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NHTSA says one reason for the increase is that people are driving more miles with the low price of gas and a healthier economy. But about half the people who were killed were not wearing seatbelts.

Garden State: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill to raise his state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. It’s $8.25 now. Christie said the law didn’t take into account the ability of businesses to pay the higher wage. Big Wind: Hurricane Madeline is bearing down on the island of Hawaii. Residents are battening down and stocking food and water. It would be the first big hurricane to hit Hawaii in 20 years.

Maine Potato Head: Maine’s Gov. Paul LePage is giving mixed signals about his future in the midst of a controversy over an obscenity-laced phone message he left for a critic in the legislature. Le Page told a radio interviewer he was considering resignation but later in the day tweeted, “Regarding rumors of resignation, to paraphrase Mark Twain, ‘The reports of my political demise are greatly exaggerated.’” The conservative Republican is the Donald Trump of the lobster state, loudmouthed, insulting, and occasionally outright racist. He has said that 90 percent of the drug dealers arrested in Maine are black and Hispanic with names like “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty,” who he said “sell their heroin” and “impregnate a young white girl before they leave.”

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