Samantha Power on the Duty to Intervene  —  This week, the Barack Obama administration's most eloquent and ardent advocate for humanitarian intervention overseas, Samantha Power, the ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted the following about the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack …

No Tolerance for Russia's Anti-Gay Games  —  The International Olympic Committee is letting Russia off far too easy.  Russia has argued nonsensically that its new anti-gay law is in keeping with the Olympic Charter's protections against discrimination, and the IOC simply has accepted it.

Colin Powell On Republican Voting Restrictions: 'It's Going To Backfire'  —  On Face the Nation this Sunday, Colin Powell, former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, warned his fellow Republicans that the continuing push to restrict voting rights is going to “backfire” and harm the Republican Party:

Challengers to South Carolina Senator Are Lining Up on the Right  —  LAKE WYLIE, S.C. — Some of the early shots in the Republican primary battle against Senator Lindsey Graham have been fired from this tiny community on northern border of the state where the Civil War began.

Market innovation, not government regulations, are the key to keeping college costs down  —  “Over the last month,” President Obama said in Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday, “I've been out there talking about what we need to do as a country to make sure that we've to a better bargain for the middle class …

Black lawmakers lament flaring of racial tensions under Obama  —  When President Obama follows in Dr. Martin Luther King's footsteps on Wednesday with an address at the Lincoln Memorial, he will face a nation where race remains the great divide.  —  Black lawmakers say the election …

ProPublica Joins NSA Chase  —  Broadening the journalistic front on the National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden.  —  A new National Security Agency facility in Utah.  —  George Frey / Getty Images  —  The non-profit investigative reporting group ProPublica is among …

Despite backlogs, VA disability claims processors get bonuses  —  Mary Shinn/News21 - Sean Meade was an Army National Guard soldier who was deployed to Iraq during 2006 and 2007.  He filed a disability claim in 2008 for back problems and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Police: 9-year old intentionally kills grandmother  —  (CNN) — An 8-year-old Louisiana boy intentionally shot and killed his elderly caregiver after playing a violent video game, authorities say.  —  Marie Smothers was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the head …