Police search for active shooter on grounds of Washington Navy Yard in Southeast D.C.  —  A D.C. police officer is among the people shot at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning.  —  A police spokesman confirmed at 9:20 a.m. that the officer was shot near the room where a lone gunman …

As Health Care Law Proceeds, Opposition and Uncertainty Persist  —  One-in-Four Backs Efforts to Make the Law Fail  —  As a key step in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act approaches, public views of the 2010 health care law are as negative as ever, and many are unaware of the elements …

A Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant  —  Sunday night Nina Davuluri, Miss New York, was crowned the winner the 2014 Miss America Pageant.  She is the first contestant of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America.  —  Lucas Jackson / Reuters

How a Small Team of Democrats Defeated Larry Summers—and Obama  —  The president's presumptive choice for Federal Reserve chair withdrew his name from consideration on Sunday.  —  No one has ever said President Obama's relationship with Congress was warm.

Why Ken Cuccinelli is losing the Virginia governor's race  —  Republicans can't believe this is happening: Democrat Terry McAuliffe — whose controversial business dealings and past life as a party moneyman make him a walking negative ad — has taken command of the Virginia governor's race.

How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you - and don't blame Coleman Young  —  Detroit is broke, but it didn't have to be.  An in-depth Free Press analysis of the city's financial history back to the 1950s shows that its elected officials and others charged with managing …

Obamacare will question your sex life  —  A man holds a sign at the ‘Exempt American from Obamacare’ rally on Sept. 10, 2013  —  'Are you sexually active?  If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?  Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor …

LATEST STATEMENTS  —  New York, 16 September 2013 - Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council on the report of the United Nations Missions to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons on the incident that occurred on 21 August 2013 in the Ghouta area of Damascus

Media doesn't hold back on President Obama  —  President Barack Obama is damaging his presidency, weakening America's standing in the world, and displaying “inexplicable” incompetence.  —  The media figure making those accusations isn't Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh, Charles Krauthammer or Glenn Beck.

Inside the conservative brain: What explains their wiring?  —  The question of human nature reliably polarized political philosophers across many centuries and several oceans.  One group of these thinkers viewed people as innately cooperative or potentially compassionate; another group argued for an inherently competitive human nature.