FILNER RESIGNS, EXIT DEAL OK'D  —  Bob Filner announced his resignation Friday as San Diego's 35th mayor following a tumultuous six weeks in which lurid allegations of repeated sexual misconduct against women crippled his ability to lead and turned him into a subject of national ridicule.

NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests  —  WASHINGTON—National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency's enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.  —  The practice isn't frequent — one official estimated a handful …

The right's black crime obsession  —  There are a few black people up to no good in this country and Fox News is on it!  So is Drudge Report.  Vigilantly on the lookout, 24 hours a day, for stories about black youths behaving badly.  —  This isn't a particularly new phenomenon …

MILITARY JURY CONVICTS SOLDIER IN FORT HOOD ATTACK  —  You are here  —  Home » Nidal Malik Hasan » Military jury convicts soldier in Fort Hood attack  —  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military jury on Friday convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood …

Obama: Law School Should Be Two Years, Not Three  —  “This is probably controversial to say, but, what the heck, I'm in my second term, so I can say it.”  —  Jacquelyn Martin / AP  —  BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — President Barack Obama told a town hall crowd in Binghamton, New York …

Linda Ronstadt Discloses Her Battle With Parkinson's Disease  —  Legendary singer Linda Ronstadt, 67, told AARP today that she “can't sing a note” because she suffers from Parkinson's disease.  Diagnosed eight months ago, Ronstadt began to show symptoms as long as eight years ago.

France cannot take any more taxes, government admits  —  France's Socialist government has admitted that the country cannot cope with any further tax rises and promised no more hikes just days ahead of the country's largest ever tax bill.  —  President François Hollande has enacted …

The Suit in the Newsroom  —  An unusual Times executive— for unusual times.  —  When Mark Thompson, a former director general at the BBC, was appointed president and CEO of the New York Times Company, the reaction inside the company was a mix of relief and apprehension.

Guardian partners with New York Times over Snowden GCHQ files  —  Some of Edward Snowden cache shared with US paper after ‘climate of intense pressure’ from UK government  —  The Guardian has struck a partnership with the New York Times which will give the US paper access to some of the sensitive cache …

50 Years Later: March on Washington Today Honors King … American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead a march down the center of a street in the 1960s.  —  Getty Images  —  Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington …

Irrelevant?  Obama Declares Your Host His #1 Obstacle as EIB Inks Deal with Cumulus, Gets New Station in the Big Apple  —  RUSH: So I got in here at the usual time after working very early this morning, late into last night on show prep and stuff, and at about ten o'clock I get an e-mail …

Found: Samantha Power in Ireland during urgent Syria meeting, sources say  —  Mystery solved.  America's ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power was in Ireland on a personal trip when she missed an emergency meeting on the alleged chemical gas attack in Syria, U.N. sources tell Fox News.

Decision on Keystone in danger of being delayed until 2014  —  The State Department's decision on the Keystone XL pipeline is in danger of being pushed into 2014.  —  State's internal watchdog on Friday said it won't complete until January a review of allegations that the department hired …

Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman  —  Dennis Avner was not a tiger, and Bradley Manning is not a woman.  Mr. Manning, who upon his sentencing for his role in the WikiLeaks case announced that he desires to live out his days as a woman called Chelsea, is what he is, and no amount of pronoun play …

NIH Director On Sequestration: ‘God Help Us If We Get A Worldwide Pandemic’  —  BETHESDA, Md. — In his first-floor office in the main building of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the institutes, has hung a series of framed pictures.