FRIEND: NAVY YARD SHOOTER LIBERAL, SUPPORTED OBAMA  —  Tuesday, on CNN's “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Michael Ritrovato spoke at length about his friend, suspected Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis.  After expressing his condolences to the victims and their families, Ritrovato then expressed …

House to Vote on Defunding Obamacare  —  Leadership sources tell me the House GOP will soon vote on a continuing resolution that simultaneously funds the federal government and defunds Obamacare.  Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor are expected to announce the decision at Wednesday's closed-door conference meeting.

The new Fox News prime-time lineup  —  The long-awaited Fox News reshuffle, via Mike Allen:  —  Fox announces new lineup: Greta to 7, Bill at 8, Megyn at 9, Sean at 10  —  Fox News announces its prime-time lineup, starting Mon., Oct. 7: Greta Van Susteren moves to 7 p.m., Bill O'Reilly stays at 8 …

Undocumented LA County Parents On Pace To Receive $650M In Welfare Benefits  —  LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A projected $650 million in welfare benefits will be distributed to illegal alien parents in 2013, county officials said Monday.  —  Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich announced …

De Blasio Far Ahead of Lhota: Poll  —  In the first poll of the general election, de Blasio leads Lhota 65% to 22%.  —  Democrat Bill de Blasio leads Republican Joe Lhota among likely voters by 43 percentage points in the general-election race for New York City mayor, an enormous starting advantage …

Cuccinelli rallies with radio talk show host in Northern Virginia  —  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli II fired up a crowd of several hundred Republicans and tea party members Tuesday with rousing talk about keeping Washington at bay and fighting to maintain the commonwealth's tradition of limited government.

Obama: Everybody is wrong to doubt ObamaCare  —  President Obama said Tuesday that Americans were wrong to doubt his signature healthcare reform law, saying concerns over rising costs or worsening health outcomes were not supported by the evidence.  —  In an interview with Telemundo on Tuesday …

IRS list reveals concerns over Tea Party ‘propaganda’  —  WASHINGTON — Newly uncovered IRS documents show the agency flagged political groups based on the content of their literature, raising concerns specifically about “anti-Obama rhetoric,” inflammatory language and “emotional” …

51% Favor Government Shutdown Until Congress Cuts Health Care Funding  —  President Obama yesterday criticized congressional Republicans for insisting on spending cuts in any budget deal that continues government operations past October 1, saying they risk “economic chaos.”

The typical American family makes less than it did in 1989  —  The Census Bureau is out with the annual report on incomes and poverty.  And while you might think that after years of stagnant incomes and elevated poverty rates, we would be inured to the depressing facts contained therein, it still somehow has the power to shock.

Tax Reform, the Family, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Remarks to the American Enterprise Institute  —  WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Mike Lee announced a tax reform plan that replaces today's complex tax system with a new, simple structure that provides solutions for America's ongoing opportunity crisis.

Tennis security exec's ‘racist’ e-mails  —  An exec at the firm that handles security for the US Open tennis tournament in Queens is a raging racist who has it in for black people, shocking e-mails obtained by The Post reveal.  —  Scott Dennison, 56, a VP for special events at Contemporary Services Corp. …

EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Joe Biden's niece in police custody in Tribeca  —  A niece of Vice President Joe Biden, Caroline Biden, 26, was taken into police custody Tuesday morning in Manhattan after tussling with cops sent to break up a fight with her roommate over rent money, police told the Daily News.

In Arrival of 2 iPhones, 3 Lessons  —  We can draw three lessons from the arrival of Apple's two new iPhone models, the 5C and 5S.  —  LESSON 1 Apple may have set its own bar for innovation too high.  —  Year after year, Steve Jobs used to blow our minds with products we didn't know we wanted.

My grovelling apology to Herr Schäuble  —  German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has been vindicated.  —  For my part, I have been wrong about everything.  German discipline policies for the eurozone have been a tremendous success.  I am ashamed for suggesting otherwise.

Miss America keeps smiling amidst the haters - and teaching them a lesson  —  America isn't the only country that's had detestable backlash to beauty pageant winners that don't fit the European norm  —  Here's the silver lining to the xenophobic and inappropriate tweets after Nina Davuluri became …

Inside Dropbox's Quest to Bury the Hard Drive  —  Drew Houston, the 30-year-old CEO and cofounder of Dropbox, is supposed to be having his Steve Jobs moment.  In an auditorium packed with elite coders and Silicon Valley insiders in July, Houston is debuting new features he says will transform Dropbox …

Brazilian president postpones Washington visit over NSA spying  —  Dilma Rousseff snubs Barack Obama, saying planned visit cannot take place ‘in the absence of a timely investigation’  —  The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, snubbed Barack Obama on Tuesday by postponing an official visit …