U.S. General Is Killed in Attack at Afghan Base, Officials Say  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier killed a United States Army major general and wounded a German brigadier general and at least 14 other foreign and Afghan military service members on Tuesday at a military training academy …

Gaza War Strains Relations Between U.S. and Israel  —  WASHINGTON — When the State Department condemned Israel's strike on a United Nations school in Gaza on Sunday, saying it was “appalled” by this “disgraceful” act, it gave full vent to what has been weeks of mounting American anger toward the Israeli government.

NDTV Exclusive: How Hamas Assembles and Fires Rockets  —  Gaza: In the minutes before the ceasefire kicked in at Gaza this morning, Hamas fired a flurry of rockets towards Israel - 30 according to some counts.  —  Israel has argued that that these rockets are fired from civilian areas …

How Much Is Obamacare Raising Your Insurance Rate?  Depends on Which State You Live In.  —  Back in the spring, once it became apparent that enrollment in Obamacare would nearly match or even exceed projections, the law's detractors on the right started coming up with new predictions of doom.

Exclusive: ‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off Tea Party Cronies Instead  —  Move America Forward has collected millions to send care packages to U.S. troops.  But its assets have been used to benefit conservative political consulting firms close to its Tea Party founder.

In Gaza, there is no such thing as ‘innocent civilians’  —  Op-ed: Fighting an enemy state with one hand while supplying food and energy to its residents with the other hand is absurd.  —  Giora Eiland  —  The story we are telling in this conflict is similar to the one we told in Lebanon in 2006.

In Kentucky, Elaine Chao Endures Racist Attacks From Liberals  —  The former Republican Secretary of Labor has had to deal with a number of bigoted comments from Democratic partisans in the last year.  So why is racism treated differently when it comes from the left?

Forecasting President Obama's Final Two Years in Office  —  With the prospect of a Republican takeover of the Senate looming, the White House is quietly mulling potential silver linings of such a dynamic during President Barack Obama's final two years in office.

Kansas showdown: The tea party's last shot  —  In one primary after another this year, the tea party has tried but failed to unseat poster senators of the Republican establishment: first John Cornyn, then Mitch McConnell, then Lindsey Graham, and finally and most spectacularly, Thad Cochran.

In This City, Car Ownership Could Soon Be A Thing Of The Past  —  Helsinki, the capital of Finland, has a a plan that might make car ownership a thing of the past.  —  Which is not to say it would eliminate the need for riding in cars.  Rather, Helsinki's plan is to provide its residents …

GOP launches new big money effort  —  Republicans are launching a fundraising effort that will let donors cut six-figure checks to support GOP Senate candidates this fall — a move that capitalizes on the Supreme Court's landmark McCutcheon v. FEC decision.  —  Senate Republicans …

Girl, 3, shot on Pueblo's North Side  —  The shooting of a 3-year-old girl at a home on the city's North Side Monday morning has been ruled accidental by Pueblo police.  —  In the backyard of a home in the 3200 block of Colfax Avenue, the girl was shot in the chest at about 10:15 a.m …

Gorell Statement Re: Congresswoman's Inappropriate Use of Foreign or Fake US  —  Military Personnel in Taxpayer-Funded, Government Mailer to Voters  —  CAMARILLO, CA - Statement by Jeff Gorell, candidate for California's 26th Congressional District, regarding use of foreign …

Poll: Congress approval hits new low  —  The number of Americans who approve of their own representative in Congress has reached an all-time low, according to a poll released Tuesday.  —  In a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 51 percent of Americans said that they disapprove of the way their member …

Democrats Seize on Social Issues as Attitudes Shift  —  WASHINGTON — Facing re-election, Gov. Scott Walker, Republican of Wisconsin, no longer talks about stopping same-sex marriage.  “It's those on the left that are pushing” the issue, he says.  —  Ed Gillespie, the Republican Senate candidate …

Buildup Makes Russia Battle-Ready for Ukraine  —  WASHINGTON — Russia has roughly doubled the number of its battalions near the Ukrainian border, Western officials said Monday, and could respond to the Kiev government's gains there by launching a cross-border incursion with little or no warning.

With Loyalty Oath Demand, Crusade Against Corporate Inversion Gets Even Creepier  —  Leave it to Jonathan Alter to jump the already laughably overblown “problem” of corporations seeking friendlier tax jurisdictions elsewhere right past parody.  Forget any discussion of why businesses are relocating.

James S. Brady, Reagan's press secretary and survivor of 1981 shooting, dies at 73  —  James S. Brady, the often-irreverent press secretary to President Ronald Reagan who was shot in the head during an assassination attempt on his boss in 1981 and who became an enduring symbol of the fight …