Dispute Over Gay Marriage Erupts in Cheney Family  —  Mary Cheney, a daughter of the former vice president, and her wife, Heather Poe, sharply criticized on Sunday a comment by by Ms. Cheney's sister, Liz Cheney, a candidate for the Senate in Wyoming, that they disagreed on the issue of same-sex marriage.

D.C. insurance commissioner fired a day after questioning Obamacare fix  —  A day after he questioned President Obama's decision to unwind a major tenet of the health-care law and said the nation's capital might not go along, D.C. insurance commissioner William P. White was fired.

'We've listened - and here's how we'll halt this depravity': Google chief ERIC SCHMIDT explains block on child porn  —  Last week 348 people were arrested in Canada - and 386 young kids rescued - in one of the largest child sex investigations ever seen.  It defies belief that anyone …

Pelosi defends Obamacare claims, can't predict effect on Dems in midterms  —  Washington (CNN) - House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday neither she nor President Barack Obama misled the American people when they said, during the run-up to the passage of Obamacare, that people could keep their health insurance plans.

JFK tragedy defines a generation  —  “JFK Still Dead, Baby Boomers Still Self Absorbed.”  So reads a headline — one of many, actually — slamming the media obsession with the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.  And we're still five days away.  —  Well, non-boomers will just have to put up with it.

Dallas's Role in Kennedy's Murder  —  FOR 50 years, Dallas has done its best to avoid coming to terms with the one event that made it famous: the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.  That's because, for the self-styled “Big D,” grappling with the assassination means reckoning …

Caught in Unemployment's Revolving Door  —  On a cold October morning, just after the federal government shutdown came to an end, Jenner Barrington-Ward headed into court in Boston to declare bankruptcy.  —  It took weeks to put the paperwork together, given that her papers and belongings …

Arne Duncan: ‘White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren't ‘brilliant’  —  U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from …

Pressure Builds to Finish Volcker Rule on Wall St. Oversight  —  The Obama administration, currently stumbling through the health care overhaul, has reached a critical stage in its other signature effort: reining in Wall Street.  —  The push to reshape financial oversight hinges on negotiations …

Analysis: Unpopular at home, Hollande appreciated in Israel  —  French president has earned Paris a greater degree of respect in Jerusalem than it has enjoyed in years.  —  President François Hollande flew into Israel Sunday at a time when France's foreign policy …

TWO MINERS DEAD, 20 OTHERS INJURED AFTER OURAY MINE BLAST  —  Two miners are dead, and emergency workers are trying to reach two others trapped at the Revenue-Virginius mine in Ouray, according to Ouray County spokeswoman Marti Whitmore.  —  Twenty people, one of them in critical condition …

Craig Cobb in Custody  —  The Grant County Sheriff's Department has confirmed that White separatist, Craig Cobb has been taken in to custody.  —  We received an eye witness account of what happened earlier this afternoon that led to Cobb and his supporter Kynan Dutton being taken into custody.

Doris Lessing, Author Who Swept Aside Convention, Is Dead at 94  —  Doris Lessing, the uninhibited and outspoken novelist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for a lifetime of writing that shattered convention, both social and artistic, died on Sunday at her home in London.  She was 94.