Pete King: 'I'm serious' about possible White House bid  —  “This is not a game I'm playing, I'm serious,” King told The Hill after spending the earlier part of this week in New Hampshire meeting with voters.  —  King said he's headed back to the first-in-the-nation primary state …

How the Post Was Lost  —  MANY American newspapers were doomed to decline from the moment the Internet arrived on personal computers.  But The Washington Post, just sold off unexpectedly to Amazon's Jeff Bezos, was never really one of them.  —  This is something the sentimental send-offs …

Suspect killed; teen safe  —  (CNN) — James DiMaggio — the California murder suspect who allegedly kidnapped 16-year-old Hannah Anderson — was shot and killed by an FBI agent in the Idaho wilderness, a sheriff said Saturday.  —  Authorities first spotted the pair's campsite from the air …

Circle Sept. 10 on Your Calendar for Apple's Big iPhone Event  —  Apple is expected to unveil its next iPhone at a special event on Sept. 10, sources told AllThingsD.  —  D: All Things Digital  —  The launch comes at an important time for Apple, which continues to make a lot of money …

Kansas and Al Qaeda  —  SALINA, Kan. — I'VE spent the last few months filming a Showtime documentary about how climate and environmental stresses helped trigger the Arab awakening.  It's been a fascinating journey because it forced me to look at the Middle East through the lens of Arab environmentalists instead of politicians.

Priebus: Employer mandate delay a 2014 ‘tactic’  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday the delay of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate is just a tactic by President Barack Obama to help reelect Democrats in 2014.  —  “It's very obvious that it isn't a law …

Reid says Obamacare just a step toward eventual single-payer system  —  In just about seven weeks, people will be able to start buying Obamacare-approved insurance plans through the new health care exchanges.  —  But already, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is predicting those plans …

After Guantánamo, Another Injustice  —  ABOUT two months ago I learned that some of my books had been banned at Guantánamo Bay.  Apparently detainees were requesting them, and their lawyers were delivering them to the prison, but they were not being allowed in because of “impermissible content.”

Death Panels and the Apparatchik Mindset  —  Aaron Carroll reads the Wall Street Journal, which is outraged, outraged, at the prospect that Oregon's Medicaid system might seek to limit spending on treatments with low effectiveness and/or patients who aren't going to live much longer in any case.

Statement from Julian Assange in response to President Obama's plans to reform America's global surveillance program  —  Today the President of the United States validated Edward Snowden's role as a whistleblower by announcing plans to reform America's global surveillance program.

For Freshmen in the House, Seats of Plenty  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Andy Barr, a Republican from Kentucky with little experience in the intricacies of Wall Street, was among the lucky House freshmen to secure a seat on the powerful Financial Services Committee.

Taming the tax code beast  —  “Colleagues,” said the June 27 letter to 98 U.S. senators, “now it is your turn.”  The letter's authors are Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the chairman and ranking Republican, respectively, on the tax-writing Finance Committee.