Man arrested for sneaking into Thad Cochran's wife's nursing home  —  A Pearl man who runs a political blog is accused of sneaking into a nursing home where U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's wife is bedridden and photographing her, then posting the image in a video political “hit piece” on the internet.

‘Biggest dinosaur ever’ discovered  —  Fossilised bones of a dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth have been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say.  —  Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall.

Quixotic ‘80 Campaign Gave Birth to Kochs’ Powerful Network  —  He backed the full legalization of abortion and the repeal of laws that criminalized drug use, prostitution and homosexuality.  He attacked campaign donation limits and assailed the Republican star Ronald Reagan as a hypocrite who represented …

After Criticism, Times Publisher Details Decision to Oust Top Editor  —  Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of The New York Times, released a statement Saturday afternoon detailing his decision to fire the newspaper's executive editor, Jill Abramson.  He was responding to a growing controversy …

Castro to be tapped for HUD secretary  —  San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, a rising star in Democratic national politics, is expected to be nominated to the post of secretary of housing and urban development, according to a source familiar with the plan.  —  Current HUD secretary Shaun Donovan …

Pelosi's message to grads: Be disruptors  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) encouraged graduates of the University of California Berkeley to be disruptors, using their knowledge and technology to shake up the economic system.  —  “Being called a disruptor is a high compliment,” Pelosi said in prepared remarks Saturday.

GM suggested engineers avoid ‘judgment words’ like ‘death trap,’ ‘grenademaker’  —  GM told engineers to avoid using dozens of words when communicating about vehicle problems that could potentially lead to recalls, including everything from “safety” to “Kevorkianesque.”

911 call released in Monica Wehby saga  —  Andrew Miller, the ex-boyfriend of Oregon GOP Senate candidate Monica Wehby, told Portland police in a 911 call in April 2013 that Wehby was “very, very upset and angry” with him and he was going to file a restraining order against her.

Five myths about Brown v. Board of Education  —  Imani Perry, the author of “More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States,” is a professor of African American studies at Princeton University.  —  In the 1954 Brown v. Board …