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 …

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 …

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.

AP Editor Accidentally Adds Her Buzzfeed Cover Letter to Photo Caption  —  2,884g  —  Job-hunting at work is dangerous.  Online multitasking is dangerous.  Online multitasking your work with your job hunt is deadly.  Just ask this Associated Press photo editor.

GOP Candidate Thwarted By Arkansas Voter ID Law At Polls  —  BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A Republican candidate for Arkansas governor supports the new voter ID law, but he was left waiting after he forgot his identification.  —  Spokesman Christian Olson told The Associated Press …

GOP's quiet election scandal: What Tuesday's results really mean for workers  —  It's the morning after a primary Election Day, the smoke has cleared and the pundits have spoken.  They tell us that the portent for November is obvious and the 2016 election will be shaped by what happened in places like Kentucky and Georgia.

Mitch McConnell challenges Alison Lundergan Grimes to three debates  —  By Sam Youngman syoungman@herald-leader.com U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, fresh off his primary win against challenger Matt Bevin, is challenging Democratic nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes to three debates.

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.

The Chemistry Joke That Got a Student Suspended  —  Paris Gray, upstanding vice president of her about-to-graduate high-school class in Jonesboro, Georgia, was suspended last Friday when administrators figured out what her yearbook quote meant.  It read:

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 …

‘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 …

Pelosi ‘Leaning Toward’ Full Participation In New Benghazi Probe  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is “leaning toward” fully participating in the GOP-led select committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks of 2012, a senior Democratic aide said.

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 …

Glass Ceiling  —  With Republicans trying to shake a rep for being indifferent to the needs of women in the workplace, doctors' offices and elsewhere, an Oregon GOP Senate candidate, pediatric surgeon Monica Wehby, has broken a new glass ceiling with her candidacy.