AFTER THE CRASH  —  Geography, motive, communications intercepts, and all manner of circumstantial evidence suggest that the likeliest suspect in the horrific deaths of two hundred and ninety-eight people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was the curiously well-armed and well-coördinated …

Elizabeth Warren's 11 Commandments of Progressivism  —  Watch Elizabeth Warren give a speech to her fold, and you realize she's one of the rare Democrats who can excite her base in the same way Ted Cruz or Dr. Ben Carson can excite their own.  As Politico's Katie Glueck wrote on Friday …

CNN Removes Reporter Diana Magnay From Israel-Gaza After ‘Scum’ Tweet  —  NEW YORK — CNN has removed correspondent Diana Magnay from covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after she tweeted that Israelis who were cheering the bombing of Gaza, and who had allegedly threatened her, were “scum.”

Staten Island man dies after NYPD cop puts him in chokehold — SEE THE VIDEO  —  VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: A 400-pound asthmatic Staten Island dad died Thursday after a cop put him in a chokehold and other officers appeared to slam his head against the sidewalk, video of the incident shows.

Marino Staffer Arrested for Bringing Gun to Cannon  —  Shucard was arrested Friday.  (Via Facebook)  —  Capitol Police arrested a staffer for Rep. Tom Marino Friday morning on charges of carrying a 9mm handgun and magazine into the Cannon House Office building.

McCain: Had I won in 2000, Iraq War might not have happened  —  CNN and National Journal joined forces Thursday to explore the 2014 midterm elections at the first “Politics on Tap” event in Washington D.C. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, joined CNN's Jake Tapper, Brianna Keilar and Peter Hamby …

Microsoft layoffs hit D.C. office  —  Microsoft's massive layoffs have hit the company's Washington policy office.  —  Five policy and government relations staffers were let go in a restructuring process that hit both Microsoft and its subsidiary Nokia.  —  Positions held by Nokia lobbyist …

An Amazing Diversity Plan at Madison … John Leo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the editor of MindingTheCampus.com, a web magazine dedicated to chronicling developments within higher education in an effort to restore balance and intellectual pluralism to our American universities.

Obama's foes on border crisis: Democrats  —  President Barack Obama's response to the southern border crisis is under fire from an unlikely source: fellow Democrats.  —  Republicans have seized on the ballooning number of unaccompanied children crossing into Texas as proof of Obama's failed immigration policies.

Supreme Court Halts Recognition Of Utah Same-Sex Marriages During Appeal  —  While the state appeals the trial court decision, Utah will not need to recognize the marriages it granted to same-sex couples.  —  Supreme Court of the United States in Washington  —  peterspiro/peterspiro