Here's The Racist ‘Daily Show’ Interview That Cost A Local GOP Chair His Job  —  A North Carolina county precinct GOP chair resigned on Thursday after an offensive interview that aired on “The Daily Show” Wednesday, in which he said “lazy black people” want “the government to give them everything.”

Officials alert foreign services that Snowden has documents on their cooperation with U.S.  —  U.S. officials are alerting some foreign intelligence services that documents detailing their secret cooperation with the United States have been obtained by former National Security Agency contractor …

Sen. Bullhead from Illinois is hooked on outrage  —  Dick Durbin not only baited his own hook, he swallowed it whole  —  A Facebook post by Sen. Dick Durbin asserting that a House Republican leader insulted President Barack Obama while negotiating with him has Durbin in hot water.

House GOP plans no immigration vote in 2013  —  House Republican leadership has no plans to vote on any immigration reform legislation before the end the year.  —  The House has just 19 days in session before the end of 2013, and there are a number of reasons why immigration reform is stalled this year.

Reid: 'There's Not Going to Be a Grand Bargain'  —  Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that he expected little more from the formal House-Senate budget conference than some relief from automatic spending cuts under sequestration.  —  The Nevada Democrat called the suggestion of a …

Gansler says he should have checked drinking at party  —  A month after launching his campaign for governor, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler was entangled Thursday in yet another controversy, this time acknowledging a lapse in judgment when he appeared at a beach-house party …

Arrival of Obamacare forcing insurers to drop customers with low coverage  —  The Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama in 2010 and since then he has repeated one reassuring phrase: “If you like your insurance plan you will keep it.  No one will be able to take that away from you.

Clinton: US ‘careening from crisis to crisis’  —  Hillary Clinton on Thursday night blamed lawmakers who govern by ideology for sending the country careening from crisis to crisis.  —  Speaking at the 10th anniversary of the founding of the progressive Center for American Progress (CAP) …

Republicans' embarrassing Obamacare overreach backfires  —  Beyond a basic misunderstanding of the Democrats' position in the shutdown and debt limit fights, one of the biggest reasons Republicans got themselves into so much trouble last month is that they badly misjudged both the party's commitment …

Croatian Parliament Puts Same-Sex Marriage Ban To Popular Vote  —  A top U.S. official refuses to comment on the decision, saying same-sex marriage isn't a core issue.  —  Around 15,000 people attended Zagreb's 12th pride parade in June.  —  Antonio Bronic / Reuters

‘Serious’ Ken Cuccinelli keeps calm at debate  —  BLACKSBURG, Va. — Ken Cuccinelli might have been expected to throw the kitchen sink at Terry McAuliffe in the final debate of a governor's race the Republican attorney general is on track to lose.  —  It was more like a Nerf football.

A Game of Shark and Minnow  —  In a remote corner of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles from the Philippines, lies a submerged reef the Filipinos call Ayungin.  —  SCROLL  —  Satellite imagery: NASA  —  In most ways it resembles the hundreds of other reefs, islands …

Activist Tweets Former NSA Chief's ‘Off Record’ Phone Call On Train  —  Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden is more used to being the one listening in on conversations than the one being eavesdropped on himself.  The tables were turned on Thursday, however …

Man Blames Obama For His Battery Arrest  —  Cops: Floridian pushed pregnant girlfriend to ground  —  An intoxicated Floridian who allegedly battered his pregnant girlfriend told police that he was being unfairly arrested since “Obama said cops always listen to women.”

Getting to the bottom of HealthCare.gov's flop  —  MILLIONS of Americans negotiating America's health care system know all too well what the waiting room of a doctor's office looks like.  Now, thanks to HealthCare.gov, they know what a “virtual waiting room” looks like, too.