First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home  —  When President Barack Obama goes on holiday to the seaside things can get complicated.  —  Bo, the US First Family's waterdog, gets off the Marine helicopter at Martha's Vineyard  —  Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents …

Vice President Joe Biden will be in Iowa for Harkin steak fry  —  Vice President Joe Biden has accepted U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's invitation to attend his steak fry this year, White House officials told The Des Moines Register this evening.  —  “It has been a long-standing commitment …

Trump spars with ABC reporter over Obama's birth certificate  —  Donald Trump, in the early presidential caucus state of Iowa this weekend for an event featuring many potential 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls, defended his questioning of President Barack Obama's place of birth in an interview aired Sunday on ABC's “This Week.”

Newark Mayor Cory Booker pocketed ‘confidential’ annual payouts from law firm while in office  —  Cory Booker pocketed “confidential” annual payouts from his former law firm while serving as Newark mayor.  —  Booker, the front-runner in New Jersey's Senate race, received five checks …

Tennessee Judge orders baby's name be changed from ‘Messiah’  —  Jaleesa Martin and the father of Messiah could not agree on a last name, which is how they ended up at a child support hearing in Cocke County Chancery Court on Thursday.  —  That is when the first name came into question.

Man shoots and kills son, himself at Manchester YWCA  —  Muni Savyon fatally shoots 9-year-old son  —  A man shot and killed his son before taking his own life at the YWCA in Manchester on Sunday morning, police said.  —  According to the attorney general's office, Muni Savyon, 54 …

GOP Strategist Confronts Congressman For Bigoted Comments On Immigrants: You ‘Should Get Some Therapy’  —  Rep. Steve King (R-IA) recently dove into hot water by saying that undocumented immigrants were “drug mules” with “cantaloupe-sized calves.”  Sunday morning, King doubled down …

Help Thy Neighbor and Go Straight to Prison  —  IF you want to understand all that is wrong with America's criminal justice system, take a look at the nightmare experienced by Edward Young.  —  Young, now 43, was convicted of several burglaries as a young man but then resolved that he would turn his life around.

Madam President  —  WASHINGTON — PRESIDENT OBAMA proved himself a great segue artist Friday, as he smoothly glided from his previously unassailable position on the matter of surveillance to his new unassailable position on the matter of surveillance.  —  There is no moral high ground that he does not seek to occupy.

Snowden's Father Gets Visa to Visit Son in Russia  —  National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's father has secured documents to visit his son in Russia and plans to discuss how he could fight espionage charges, Lon Snowden and his attorney said Sunday.

Family leaves US on sailboat over religious concerns to start new life, becomes lost at sea  —  Las Ultimas Noticias/Associated Press - Hannah Gastonguay, holding her baby Rahab, is followed by her husband Sean and the couple's 3-year-old daughter Ardith, as they disembark in the port city of San Antonio, Chile, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013.

NBC Buying Web Service to Stream Phone Video  —  When a plane crashes or a protest turns violent, television crews speed to the scene.  But they typically do not arrive for minutes or even hours, so these days photos and videos by amateurs — what the news industry calls “user-generated content” — fill the void.

Loophole: People are being told to use “key words” to cross border  —  SAN DIEGO -  —  A loophole is allowing hundreds of immigrants across the Mexico border in to the United States.  —  Immigrants are being taught to use “key words and phrases” to be allowed to enter and stay in the country.