Christie Story Attracts Little Public Interest  —  Recent Opinions of New Jersey Governor Are Largely Unchanged  —  The public paid far more attention to last week's cold snap than to the controversy swirling around New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.  There also has been little short-term change …

ObamaCare has youth problem  —  Too few young people are signing up for ObamaCare to stop premiums from rising, new data released by the administration on Monday show.  —  Only 24 percent of Obama-Care's enrollees are young people, well below the 40 percent benchmark set by the administration …

Readers Lash Out About Bill Keller's Column on a Woman With Cancer  —  Bill Keller's column in The Times on Monday about Lisa Bonchek Adams has generated a great deal of negative response.  Xeni Jardin, the well-known writer who blogs on Boing Boing, sometimes about her own experience with cancer, was outraged, calling it bullying.

Argument recap: An uneasy day for presidential power  —  Seeming a bit troubled about allowing the Senate to have an on-off switch on the president's power to temporarily fill vacant government posts, the Supreme Court on Monday indicated that it may yet allow just that.

Noisy Texter Shot to Death in Florida Movie Theater  —  A moviegoer shot two people—one of them fatally—this afternoon, reportedly after one of them refused to stop texting during a movie.  —  According to Fox 13 in Tampa Bay, a man and his wife were watching a matinee showing of Lone Survivor …

Google to Acquire Nest  —  Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to buy Nest Labs, Inc. for $3.2 billion in cash.  —  Nest's mission is to reinvent unloved but important devices in the home such as thermostats and smoke alarms.

All In Goes All In on Chris Christie: Chris Hayes to Host 11pm Bridgegate Special  —  There are many questions swirling around about the ever-deepening Bridgegate scandal, and for the media, one such question is “how much is too much?”  —  The answer to that depends partially on who you ask …

Rep. Sean Maloney Is Engaged To His Longtime Partner, Randy Florke  —  “[I]t's interesting when you've been in love with someone for 21 years and your country finally catches up to you,” the New York representative says of his Christmas Day engagement.  —  Randy Florke, left, and Rep. Sean Maloney …

McDonnell leaves McAuliffe behind big surprise in bathroom  —  RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) - Apparently it's a Virginia tradition.  —  On his way out of the door, the out-going governor pulls a prank on the incoming governor.  —  So for his prank, former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell left …

Police not guilty in Kelly Thomas death; DA won't try 3rd officer  —  An Orange County jury Monday found two former Fullerton police officers accused of killing a schizophrenic homeless man, Kelly Thomas, not guilty.  —  Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli were charged with striking Kelly Thomas …

Gawker editor says he was told Roger Ailes was having him tailed  —  Here's something you won't read in Gabriel Sherman's hotly anticipated book about Roger Ailes: Gawker editor John Cook told Capital he was reliably informed that Ailes, the powerful chairman of the Fox News Channel, had him tailed in 2012.

Mitt Romney Dances ‘Gangnam Style’ (VIDEO)  —  Former Massachusetts governor and 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) learned how to dance “Gangnam Style” with performer Alex Boye at a Mormon youth conference in Arizona this weekend.

only Labour can rebuild our middle class  —  A Labour government would reshape the economy, so that everyone could enjoy higher living standards  —  If there was a single undisputed truth in Britain in the decades after the Second World War, it was that there was going to be a rising middle class.

Sarah Palin on Katie Couric losing her talk show: ‘What goes around comes around’  —  Sarah Palin won't rule out a possible run for elected office, but she insists she won't appear on “Dancing With The Stars.”  —  “Oh, my gosh, that is something you don't want to (see),” Palin told Extra's Mario Lopez …

Ted Cruz crowd loves blogger's jokes about opening fire on cars with California plates  —  A conservative blogger drew big laughs at a rally for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) when he suggested that Texans open fire on cars bearing California license plates.  —  “I've said this several times in Texas …

Gender Equality Is a Myth!  —  We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality.  It isn't a reality yet.  Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes.