Standoff at Bundy Ranch Ends, With Photo of the Year So Far  —  Before I had quite figured out what to make of the Bundy Ranch standoff, it appears to have been resolved.  The Bureau of Land Management has announced that in view of the risk of violence, it is withdrawing its forces, which include snipers, from the area.

Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee face off at New Hampshire Freedom Summit  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. - The Republican presidential primary is up and running in New Hampshire, where conservative prospects lined up in Manchester Saturday for the first cattle call of the 2016 cycle.

For Attorney General Eric Holder, Justice is for Democrats only  —  A veteran Justice Department lawyer says that Attorney General Eric Holder has politicized the department in a way he hadn't seen before.  In short, “Holder is the worst person to hold the position of attorney general since the disgraced John Mitchell.”

Diversity and Dishonesty  —  EARLIER this year, a column by a Harvard undergraduate named Sandra Y. L. Korn briefly achieved escape velocity from the Ivy League bubble, thanks to its daring view of how universities should approach academic freedom.  —  Korn proposed that such freedom was dated …

Podesta seeks points for Obama's scoreboard before it's too late  —  White House senior adviser John Podesta is running against the clock.  —  Time is winding on Podesta's objective, which is to make sure President Obama put points on the board in the final three years of his second term through either legislation or executive action.

Sebelius: Pressure after rollout was ‘awful’  —  Outgoing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she was “flat-out wrong” to believe that HealthCare.gov was ready to go on Oct. 1, 2013.  —  Sebelius made the comment to NBC's Andrea Mitchell on “Meet the Press” in her first post-resignation interview.

Investigators reveal MH370 co-pilot tried to make a call from his mobile phone after the aircraft ‘vanished’ but ‘was abruptly cut off’ as U.S. deny reports the plane landed at their remote military base  —  The co-pilot of missing flight MH370 made a call from his mobile phone …

Pro-Russian gunmen take over eastern Ukrainian city's police headquarters  —  MOSCOW — Violence flared in eastern Ukraine on Saturday as pro-Russian gunmen occupied a police headquarters in a small city and attacked government buildings in several towns nearby.

Bush draws boos from conservatives  —  A mention of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), a potential 2016 presidential contender, brought boos from a conservative crowd in New Hampshire on Saturday.  —  Speaking at the New Hampshire Freedom Summit, a gathering of conservative activists …

Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence  —  In May 2012, the law school at George Mason University hosted a forum billed as a “vibrant discussion” about Internet search competition.  Many of the major players in the field were there — regulators …