40 Armed Gun Advocates Intimidate Mothers Against Gun Violence In A Restaurant Parking Lot  —  CREDIT: https://www.facebook.com/MomsDemandActi on  —  On Saturday, nearly 40 armed men, women, and children waited outside a Dallas, Texas area restaurant to protest a membership meeting …

Republicans Just Changed The Rules AFTER A Virginia Election To Change The Outcome  —  Already shaping up to be one of the closest races in state history, a last-minute rule change is stirring up the recount to decide who will become Virginia's next attorney general.

Kerry won't talk about Kennedy conspiracy  —  Secretary of State John Kerry is declining to further elaborate on his belief that the assassin of President John F. Kennedy was part of a broader conspiracy.  —  Pressed in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press” …

Dear Governor Christie  —  I KNOW, governor, I know: It's still too early for presidential speculation, you're just focused on the job at hand and any talk of 2016, while flattering, is purely hypothetical.  —  But just in case you do have some faint, slight, extremely modest interest …

New York Times' Obama cheerleading harms the nation  —  Poor Barack Obama.  Ending his fifth year as the world's most powerful man, he is running out of scapegoats and fairy tales.  Blaming George W. Bush has lost its punch, and the ObamaCare debacle is shredding the myths he is competent and honest.

Conservative U.S. Catholics Feel Left Out of the Pope's Embrace  —  SMYRNA, Ga. — When Pope Francis was elected in March, Bridget Kurt received a small prayer card with his picture at her church and put it up on her refrigerator at home, next to pictures of her friends and her favorite saints.

EDITOR'S PICKS  —  The U.S. should only import chickens slaughtered in China if Chinese factories get cleaner, if U.S. inspections get more rigid and if American consumers are fully informed what they're buying, a top lawmaker said Sunday.  —  The Broadway musical “Big Fish” has failed to hook an audience and will close on Dec. 29.

New invention ‘harvests’ electricity from background radiation and could be used to beam power to remote locations or recharge phones wirelessly  —  Engineers at Duke University have designed a breakthrough gadget that ‘harvests’ background microwave radiation and converts it into electricity, with the same efficiency as solar panels.

Survivors ‘Walk Like Zombies’ After Philippine Typhoon Kills Estimated 10,000  —  TACLOBAN, Philippines — One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines, a senior police official said on Sunday, with huge waves sweeping away coastal villages …

Donors plot against GOP rebel  —  Business leaders are plotting to take down Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) as part of a broader effort to punish lawmakers over the government shutdown.  —  In a letter obtained by The Hill, prominent Michigan donors request financial backing for Amash's primary challenger, Brian Ellis.

‘60 Minutes’ Apologizes For Benghazi Report: ‘We Were Wrong’ … “The truth is that we made a mistake,” CBS News correspondent Lara Logan said Friday as she apologized for an Oct. 27 report on 60 Minutes in which a State Department security contractor claimed he had been on the scene of the Sept. 11 …

In shift, GOP wants O-Care fix  —  Republicans have shifted their strategy on ObamaCare.  —  Weeks ago, many Republicans said ObamaCare — including Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) — was too broken to fix.  But now, the GOP is drafting legislation that aims to do just that.