Weiner's Campaign Manager Quits After Latest Revelations  —  In a new sign of tumult within Anthony D. Weiner's embattled political operation, his campaign manager has quit, leaving his already skeletal team without a day-to-day leader.  —  According to two people told of the decision …

Iconic Ground Zero photo was nearly excluded from museum for being too ‘rah-rah’ American  —  This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum — because it was “rah-rah” American, a new book says.

Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have ‘Powerful and Invasive’ Search Tool  —  Today on “This Week,” Glenn Greenwald - the reporter who broke the story about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs - claimed that those NSA programs allowed even low-level analysts to search …

EXCLUSIVE: 4 IN 5 IN US FACE NEAR-POVERTY, NO WORK  —  You are here  —  Home » Barack Obama » Exclusive: 4 in 5 in US face near-poverty, no work  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives …

Sheriff's Office sets up park stakeouts to ensnare gay men  —  An undercover East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy was staking out Manchac Park about 10 a.m. one day this month when a slow-moving sedan pulling into the parking lot caught his attention.  The deputy parked alongside …

Lew: IRS exhibited ‘equal opportunity bad judgment’ in targeting  —  Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Sunday the Internal Revenue Service exhibited “equal opportunity bad judgment” in the improper targeting of political groups, and there was no evidence of political pressure.

A New Defense of Voting Rights  —  On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. took an important step toward repairing the damage from last month's Supreme Court ruling striking down a central element of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  He is right to adopt an aggressive approach to defending …

GOP senators to Liz Cheney: We like Mike Enzi  —  Republican senators are nearly united in their response to Liz Cheney's challenge to their low-key Wyoming colleague: We like Mike.  —  That is Mike Enzi, the three-term senator from the Cowboy State who was otherwise on a glide path …

Obama on unilateral action: Lawyers?  I don't need lawyers.  —  In an interview after his speech Wednesday in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama was asked if he consulted White House lawyers before unilaterally delaying the employer mandate in Obamacare.  Since Congress, in the Affordable Care Act …

The Charitable-Industrial Complex  —  I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006.  That year, my father, Warren Buffett …

Col. Bud Day, Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 88  —  Retired Col. George “Bud” Day, a Medal of Honor recipient who spent 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam and was Arizona Sen. John McCain's cellmate, has died at the age of 88, his widow said Sunday.  —  Day, one of the nation's …

Rep. Peter King: Rand Paul destroying GOP reputation on national security  —  Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Sunday that the libertarian wing of the Republican party is damaging the GOP's reputation on national security.  —  King criticized Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a potential 2016 presidential candidate …

Feinstein: Filner should resign  —  San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) should resign over sexual harassment allegations, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Sunday.  —  “I don't think that somebody who is lacking a moral compass really sets a role model or really will provide the kind …

Stalker terrorizes CNN's Anderson Cooper  —  CNN's Anderson Cooper has a stalker — a gaunt, scraggly-haired, 40-year-old Queens man who has the steely-eyed anchor stud fearing for his life.  —  Since 2008, Alex Hausner — described as a gay, Jewish white supremacist …

Going for Bolingbroke  —  BEFORE political movements can be understood by others, they need to understand themselves: what they want to be, what they actually are and how they might bridge the gap between aspiration and reality.  —  Today, the post-George W. Bush, post-Mitt Romney conservative movement is one-third of the way there.

Police: Robbers tell man, ‘This is for Trayvon Martin’  —  (CNN) — A weekend robbery in a racially diverse neighborhood of Washington may have been a hate crime, police said.  —  “This is for Trayvon Martin,” one of the three black men told a white man as they approached him early Saturday …