What did Republicans win in the immigration deal?  —  It's has been widely assumed this morning by some immigration advocates (and by yours truly, too) that the new immigration reform plan's process of citizenship for the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants is contingent on a commission …

Sources: Congressional Hispanic Caucus members urged Obama not to unveil immigration bill  —  Washington (CNN) - Some senior Democratic members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus used a private White House meeting Friday to urge President Obama not to unveil his own immigration legislation …

Obama's Parting Gift to Hillary Clinton  —  Last week campaign disclosure reports revealed that Hillary Clinton had finally retired the debt from her 2008 presidential campaign—with a little help from the guy who beat her, Barack Obama.  Clinton's debt once totaled more than $20 million …

TRENDING: Doubting congresswoman challenges Obama to skeet shooting match  —  (CNN) - It's about time for some bipartisan...skeet shooting?  —  Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, joined a chorus of skeptics who questioned President Barack Obama's recent comments about his hobby of skeet shooting …

Exclusive: Boy Scouts close to ending ban on gay members, leaders  —  The Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation's largest private youth organizations, is actively considering an end to its decades-long policy of banning gay scouts or scout leaders, according to scouting officials and outsiders familiar with internal discussions.

Bay Buchanan quits TV punditry, takes online real estate class after Romney's ‘brutal’ loss  —  A former top aide to Mitt Romney says that she quit her career as a television pundit and began taking online real estate classes after the former Republican presidential nominee's “brutal” loss to President Barack Obama.

The Price of Palin: $15 per Word Spoken During FOX Contract  —  Sarah Palin uttered more than 189,000 words over 150 appearances on various FOX broadcasts during her three years as an analyst at the network, or $15.85 per word  —  With the three-year contract now expired between FOX News and Sarah Palin …

The Truth About Little Women Carrying Big Wounded Men in Combat  —  One of the recurring arguments against women serving in combat appears on its face to be just good common horse sense: women just don't have the upper body strength to carry a heavy male soldier out of combat.

Scott Brown's Twitter trouble  —  Most politicians delegate their Twitter account to platitude-producing staffers, all of whom excel in a genre of writing I think of as Bland Earnestness.  I'm looking at you @MarkeyMemo, @JohnBoehner and @DevalPatrick.  —  After U.S. Sen. Scott Brown lost …

Bill would legalize cohabitation in Virginia  —  RICHMOND — Under an old law, it's illegal in Virginia for unmarried couples to live together.  Now, a state senator and delegate are trying to wipe it off the books.  —  A law dating to the late 19th-century makes it a misdemeanor for …

Doctor Fatally Shot at Office in Newport Beach  —  A doctor was fatally shot and the suspected gunman was in custody on Monday after a shooting at a doctor's office in Newport Beach, police said.  —  The shooting happened at 2:45 p.m. in a second floor patient room at 520 Superior Avenue …

EXCLUSIVE: JOURNALIST ACCOSTED BY SECURITY OVER MAYOR BLOOMBERG GUN CONTROL QUESTION  —  In an explosive exchange outside the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, D.C., security guards for billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg accosted senior Talk Radio Network …

20/20 Co-Anchor Chris Cuomo — I'm Moving to CNN!  —  I'm Moving to CNN!  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Chris Cuomo is calling it quits at “20/20” — TMZ has learned ... he's moving to CNN very soon.  —  Sources connected with CNN tell us ... Cuomo will host a morning show.

Office Working to Close Guantánamo Is Shuttered  —  FORT MEADE, Md. — The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and will not replace him, according to an internal personnel announcement.

Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner  —  I AM a New England liberal, born and bred.  I have lived most of my life in the Northeast — Boston, New York and Philadelphia — and my politics are devoutly Democratic.  In three decades, I have voted for a Republican exactly once, holding my nose …

Rand Paul Will Propose Ban On Sending F-16s To Egypt  —  The senator from Kentucky told a group of conservatives at an off-the-record meeting Monday.  Beefing up his pro-Israel credentials.  —  Image by J. Scott Applewhite / AP  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul told an off-the-record meeting …

Announcing the App.net File API  —  The promise of “unbundling”  —  Imagine a world in which your social data (e.g. messages, photos, videos) was easier to work with.  For instance, imagine you could try out a new photo sharing service without having to move all of your photos and social graph.

Dan and Me: My Coming Out as a Friend of Dan Cathy and Chick-fil-A  —  I spent New Year's Eve at the red-blooded, all-American epicenter of college football: at the Chick-fil-A Bowl, next to Dan Cathy, as his personal guest.  It was among the most unexpected moments of my life.