Same-Sex Marriage Support Reaches New High at 55%  —  Nearly eight in 10 young adults favor gay marriage  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' support for the law recognizing same-sex marriages as legally valid has increased yet again, now at 55%.  Marriage equality advocates have had a string …

Vet scandal rocks Obama  —  The White House tried Tuesday to douse flames of criticism over allegations that dozens of veterans have died because of gross mismanagement at Veterans Affairs hospitals.  —  President Obama's chief of staff, Denis McDonough, met frustrated Democrats on Capitol Hill …

2014 primary election results: Establishment, self-funders win big in primaries  —  Tuesday night was great for incumbents, the GOP establishment and self-funders.  —  It was not so great a night to be a Clinton in-law.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defeated his GOP challenger …

How South Florida Is Ignoring The State's Leading Politicians And Taking On Climate Change  —  Susanne Torriente remembers waking up on Thanksgiving morning in 2012 and discovering that four blocks of Florida's main coastal highway had washed away overnight.

School district apologizes over yearbook quote incident  —  Sponsored Links  —  CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. —  UPDATE: Paris Gray and her family met with the school's principal and the area superintendent on Tuesday.  They apologized for the miscommunication and said they would not deny her giving a speech at graduation.

WTF?  —  I'm not sure why this isn't a bigger deal.  I hadn't heard about it other than in this brief passage tucked away in a Politico article about the House GOP agriculture bill.  But it takes a small program intended provide meals to children in the school lunch program during …

eBay Inc. To Ask eBay Users To Change Passwords  —  eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords because of a cyberattack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data.

‘Over My Dead Body’: Spies Fight Obama Push to Downsize Terror War  —  The Obama administration concluded in 2012 that al Qaeda posed no direct threat to the U.S.—and has sought to scale back the fight ever since, over intel officials' rising objections.  —  In 2012, the Obama administration produced …

Young Iranians Arrested for Being Too ‘Happy in Tehran’  —  Just days after Iran's president denounced Internet censorship as “cowardly,” six young Iranians were arrested and forced to repent on state television Tuesday for the grievous offense of proclaiming themselves to be “Happy in Tehran …

Turn up the heat on Clinton  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has characterized her place in history as akin to a runner in a relay race: taking the baton, running her laps as best she can, and then handing it off to John Kerry, her successor.  —  But the actual record indicates that …

Planned Homeland Security headquarters, long delayed and over budget, now in doubt  —  The construction of a massive new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security, billed as critical for national security and the revitalization of Southeast Washington, is running more than $1.5 billion over budget …

The Price of Oslo - 933 Billion Shekels and Counting  —  Victim of bus bomb, Jerusalem, 2003.  —  Flash 90  —  The failed attempt at regional peacemaking known as the Oslo Process has cost the state of Israel over 900 billion shekels - more than $250 billion - since 1993, and the costs keeps rising …

Russia and China seal historic $400bn gas deal  —  After 10 years of negotiations, Russia's Gazprom and China's CNPC have finally signed a historic gas deal which will provide the world's fastest growing economy with the natural gas it needs to keep pace for the next 30 years.

Federal funds earmarked to offset Affordable Care Act insurer losses  —  The Obama administration has quietly adjusted key provisions of its signature healthcare law to potentially make billions of additional taxpayer dollars available to the insurance industry if companies providing coverage through the Affordable Care Act lose money.

Harry Reid optimistic on David Barron  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signaled Tuesday that a controversial judicial nominee from the Obama administration is likely to win eventual confirmation from the Senate.  —  The nominee, David Barron, has drawn some criticism and scrutiny …