NATIONAL ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!  —  The woman linked to Presidential candidate John Edwards in a cheating scandal is more than six months pregnant and telling a close confidante that Edwards is the father of her unborn child, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

Hard-liners for Jesus  —  As Christians across the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, it's a fitting moment to contemplate the mountain of moral, and mortal, hypocrisy that is our Christianized Republican Party.  —  There's nothing new, of course, about the Christianization of the GOP.

Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes  —  WASHINGTON — At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda …

Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin  —  A Tsar Is Born  —  No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's.  The Russian President's pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved …

Iowa Poll Spotlights Importance Of Turnout  —  Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York remain deadlocked in Iowa, with former senator John Edwards of North Carolina trailing, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that underscores the importance …

No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions  —  In 1967, Jack Wennberg, a young medical researcher at Johns Hopkins, moved his family to a farmhouse in northern Vermont.  —  Dr. Wennberg had been chosen to run a new center based at the University of Vermont that would examine medical care in the state.

Huckabee admaker calls cross imagery “absolutely accidental;” Paul says “fascism' will be ‘carrying a cross’  —  Asked about Republican rival Mike Huckabee's Christmas-themed ad, which we wrote about yesterday and has attracted attention in part because of the image of a cross that many see hovering …

Rush to Judgment  —  One of my male colleagues was explaining why men age better than women.  —  “It's evolutionary,” he said.  “As we wear out our wives, who are running around taking care of the kids, we know we're going to have to get another younger wife, so we stay good-looking.”

The Army's Other Crisis  —  Why the best and brightest young officers are leaving  —  Matt Kapinos was born into the military, at a U.S. Army hospital outside Frankfurt, Germany.  It was 1979, and his father was an Army officer, one of thousands of soldiers stationed along the plains of central Europe.

Inside a GOP effort to rig the 2002 New Hampshire elections  —  WASHINGTON — A former GOP political operative who ran an illegal election-day scheme to jam the phone lines of New Hampshire Democrats during the state's tight 2002 U.S. Senate election said in a new book and an interview …

Iraq Funds Approved In Senate Budget Bill  —  Antiwar Democrats Rebuffed in 70-25 Vote  —  The Senate last night approved a $555 billion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year, shortly after bowing to President Bush's demand for $70 billion …

First Look: Romney's “Search”  —  You're getting a first look at the most personal, most provocative television ad Mitt Romney has aired so far...  Untitled from marc ambinder on Vimeo.  —  It's called “Search."  It tells a story familiar to readers of Romney biographies.