Rep. Castro Rips Issa After Benghazi Report: He ‘crusaded For Over A Year On A Fairy Tale’  —  Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) lashed out at House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Sunday for spending over a year on what he said was a crusade on a “fairy tale” …

Enrollment Surged Prior to the Deadline for Coverage on January 1  —  As we continue our open enrollment campaign, we experienced a welcome surge in enrollment as millions of Americans seek access to affordable health care coverage through new Health Insurance Marketplaces nationwide.

Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit  —  The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon.  It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.

Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson: Girls Should Carry A Bible And Marry ‘when They Are 15’  —  Recently uncovered video indicates that Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson may have fringe views — other than those on homosexuality and civil rights — that most Americans would find far outside the mainstream.

Call girl tell-all: Eliot Spitzer liked to choke me, was into ‘struggle’  —  Rebecca Woodard is seen leaving Family Court in Manhattan in 2005 during the custody case involving her daughter.  Inset: The cover of Woodard's tell-all.  —  He socked it to her.

Suicide bomber kills at least 16 at Russian train station  —  (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber detonated explosives in the entrance hall of a Russian train station on Sunday, investigators said, killing at least 16 people in the second deadly attack within three days as the country prepares to host the Winter Olympics.

Ted Cruz says he's hired lawyers to renounce Canadian citizenship  —  WASHINGTON — The junior senator from Texas is still a Canadian.  But he's working on it, eh?  —  Born in Alberta 43 years ago last Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz was unaware of his dual nationality until The Dallas Morning News explored the issue in August.

Rabbi Sued After Baby Injured During Circumcision  —  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A local rabbi is being sued after allegedly botching a bris, the traditional Jewish circumcision ritual, and severing a newborn boy's penis.  —  The incident detailed in the lawsuit happened at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill within the last year.

Claremont church Nativity scene replaces Jesus with Trayvon Martin  —  Instead of an infant Jesus, the Nativity at Claremont United Methodist Church features a bloody depiction of Trayvon Martin.  Reactions have been strong.  —  Rev. Dan Lewis stands by a Nativity scene …

'I can't be gay in northeast Louisiana.' A ULM student's powerful message to Phil Robertson  —  [I had hoped to find a young person, like this University of Louisiana-Monroe student, to interview before I wrote my Times-Picayune column for Sunday's paper.  I didn't find him in time, but on Saturday morning, I did find him.

Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons died Saturday night at 82  —  Harold Simmons and his wife Annette, at right, at the 2008 press conference announcing they were donating an additional $50 million to UT Southwestern Medical Center's “Innovations in Medicine” campaign, raising …

Red, blue states move in opposite directions in a new era of single-party control  —  Political polarization has ushered in a new era in state government, where single-party control of the levers of power has produced competing Americas.  One is grounded in principles of lean and limited government …