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

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 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.

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 …

Inside the White House's Reversal on Syria  —  How the U.S. Stumbled Into an International Crisis and Then Stumbled Out of It  —  When President Barack Obama decided he wanted congressional approval to strike Syria, he received swift—and negative—responses from his staff.

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 …

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.

TOPICS  —  By  —  A Texas Christian University professor reached out in an e-mail to a group of students he deemed to be “of color” to help them succeed in his class.  But the move backfired with at least one student, who was insulted at being included for her perceived ethnicity.