TSA Agent Fatally Shot, Others Wounded In Shooting At LAX  —  LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A TSA agent was killed and several other people were injured Friday in a shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, police said.  —  CBS News' John Miller said the gunman, who was outfitted in camouflage …

“Poor People Do Not Deserve to Have Children”  —  I received a phone call today from someone who had seen Demos' Vice President, Heather McGhee, on MSNBC talking about why people need food stamps.  The caller stated, “People who are poor do not deserve to have children.  I've seen these people with 1,2, 5 children.

Court strikes down mandate for birth control in ObamaCare  —  A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the birth control mandate in ObamaCare, concluding the requirement trammels religious freedom.  —  The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — the second most influential bench in the land behind …

Pakistan Taliban say chief Mehsud killed in drone strike  —  The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, has been killed in a drone strike, a high-ranking Taliban official has told the BBC.  —  The strike targeted a vehicle used by Mehsud with four missiles in the north-western region of North Waziristan.

Brock wants ‘60 Minutes’ retraction  —  David Brock, the Clinton ally who led the public effort to pressure CNN and NBC out of their Hillary-related film projects, is set to send a letter to the chairman and president of CBS News calling on them to retract a recent “60 Minutes” segment on the attacks in Benghazi.

The Obamacare sabotage campaign  —  To the undisputed reasons for Obamacare's rocky rollout — a balky website, muddied White House messaging and sudden sticker shock for individuals forced to buy more expensive health insurance — add a less acknowledged cause: calculated sabotage by Republicans at every step.

Executive Order — Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change  —  PREPARING THE UNITED STATES FOR THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to prepare the Nation …

Republican Campaign Committee Pushes Back Against Conservative Group  —  In a warning shot to outside conservative groups, the National Republican Senatorial Committee this week informed a prominent Republican advertising firm that it would not receive any contracts with the campaign committee …

Poll: Growing Number of Republicans Dislike GOP  —  October was clearly a cruel month for both President Barack Obama and the Republicans, both of whom saw their images slump to new lows in Wall Street Journal/NBC News polling.  —  But hidden within the data is a more disturbing reality for the Republican Party.

Book Details Obama Aides' Talks About Replacing Biden on 2012 Ticket  —  President Obama's top aides secretly considered replacing Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with Hillary Rodham Clinton on the 2012 ticket, undertaking extensive focus-group sessions and polling in late 2011 when Mr. Obama's re-election outlook appeared uncertain.

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: October 2013  —  The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, conducted October 17-23, finds that the public reported paying more attention this month to the political fights over the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling than technical problems with the opening …

Navy SEALs ordered to remove 'don't tread on me' Navy Jack from uniforms  —  The Navy Jack is the 'don't tread on me' flag, one that has earned a revered place in America's naval history and a beloved place in sailor's hearts, through its use for over two centuries.

A War on the Poor  —  John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, has done some surprising things lately.  First, he did an end run around his state's Legislature — controlled by his own party — to proceed with the federally funded expansion of Medicaid that is an important piece of Obamacare.

Republicans see Cruz as party leader  —  PPP's newest national survey finds that in the wake of the shutdown, Republican voters now view Ted Cruz as their party's leader.  21% picked Cruz to 17% for Chris Christie, and 15% for John Boehner.  Cruz finished well ahead of the other GOP Senators …

Why Bill Kristol left Fox News  —  Bill Kristol, the editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, ended a decade-long run as Fox News contributor this summer two years after he and Roger Ailes got into a disagreement that had a cooling effect on their relationship, sources with knowledge of the relationship told POLITICO.

Sex workers embrace Obamacare  —  A burlesque dancer dressed as a nurse taunts her co-performer with a toy syringe, dangling the medicine seductively in an act that's meant to reflect the cat-and-mouse game of U.S. healthcare.  They shimmy and eventually end up topless.