Meanwhile in America: The last gasp of the Never Trump movement was snuffed out on the floor of the Republican National Convention last night (which is still ongoing and may be livestreamed here) when the delegation from Utah called for a roll call vote to allow delegates to be unbound from voting in accordance with their state’s primary or caucus results, Politico reported. “Trump critics were unlikely to be able to vote down the [convention] rules — and even less likely to achieve their ultimate goal of replacing the rules with ones that ‘unbound’ pledged delegates — but they were seeking a platform to voice their displeasure with Trump and demonstrate the strength of their movement,” Politico’s Kyle Cheney explained. (Watch the chaos of the roll call vote via CNN, running time: 1:30)

Hillary Clinton blamed for Benghazi deaths: The other most dramatic moment of the first night of the convention was an emotional speech delivered by Pat Smith, mother of intelligence analyst Sean Smith, a member of the US Foreign Service who was killed in the 11 September 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. “The last time I talked to Sean, the night before the terrorist attack, he told me, ‘Mom, I am going to die. All security has been pulled from the embassy,’ he explained. And when he asked why, he never received a response. Nobody listened. Nobody seemed to care… I blame Hillary Clinton, personally, for the death of my son.” (Watch, running time: 1:56)