An astonishing, dangerous cold snap is about to descend on the U.S.  —  For days, it's appeared on computer model maps in the form of deep blue and purple shades.  Now it's about to get real and up close and personal.  Some of the coldest air in years, if not decades, is poised to pour into the U.S. …

Obama looks to re-launch second term bogged down in 2013  —  President Obama returns to Washington hoping to build momentum for a thick agenda that didn't go very far during the first year of his second term.  —  The president will have has hands full: Right off the bat …

Dems seize on income inequality in 2014  —  Democrats aren't wasting any time tackling an issue they are convinced will help them this election year: income inequality.  —  One of the Senate's first votes upon returning to Washington from their holiday break Monday will be on a bill reviving …

De Blasio's Long Odds  —  THIS much can be said for Bill de Blasio's inauguration, which featured a concentration of left-wing agitprop unseen since the last time Pete Seeger occupied a stage alone: If the waning years of Barack Obama's presidency are going to be defined by a liberal crusade …

The Humanities Have Forgotten Their Humanity  —  When Shakespeare lost out to ‘rubrics of gender, sexuality, race, and class’ at UCLA, something vital was harmed.

Romney to make rare Sunday appearance  —  Mitt Romney, the most recent GOP nominee for president, is scheduled to make a rare Sunday show appearance this week in the wake of a cable news controversy surrounding a photo of one of his grandsons.  —  Romney, the former Massachusetts governor …

Assailants torch decades-old library in north Lebanon  —  Two-thirds of some 80,000 books and manuscripts housed there were destroyed  —  Tripoli: A decades-old library owned by a Greek Orthodox priest in north Lebanon's Sunni majority city of Tripoli was torched late on Friday, a day after a sectarian scuffle, a security source said.

Power Vacuum in Middle East Lifts Militants  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — The images of recent days have an eerie familiarity, as if the horrors of the past decade were being played back: masked gunmen recapturing the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi, where so many American soldiers died fighting them.

Steven Seagal mulls run for Arizona Governor  —  Steven Seagal is making headlines once again.  —  The flamboyant actor and martial arts expert tells ABC15 he's considering a run for the Arizona governor's office.  —  Seagal says he's had discussions with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio …

Sisi: 1, Obama:0  —  If Netanyahu is as determined as is Sisi, he will succeed against Obama and Kerry, exactly as Sisi has.  —  Everyone is aware of the American plan to impose the Muslim Brotherhood on Egypt and any other country that would allow it.  The reasons for this American plan were revealed on this stage a half-year ago.

Bernanke takes parting shot at Congress, calls fiscal policy ‘counterproductive’  —  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered a parting critique of Washington's fiscal policy, arguing it weighed down the economic recovery and has been “counterproductive.”

Rolling Stone's Sad “5 Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For”  —  All of Twitter is a-buzzing like a hummingbird's wings about a new, incredibly stupid article in Rolling Stone by Jesse A. Myerson.  —  Titled “Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should be Fighting For,” …

New York State Is Set to Loosen Marijuana Laws  —  ALBANY — Joining a growing group of states that have loosened restrictions on marijuana, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York plans this week to announce an executive action that would allow limited use of the drug by those with serious illnesses, state officials say.