The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie  —  The officers got the wrong man, but charged him anyway—with getting his blood on their uniforms.  How the Ferguson PD ran the town where Michael Brown was gunned down.  —  Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction …

Paul Ryan on His Father's Private Battle, Family, and ‘House of Cards’  —  More by Andy  —  When Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan to be his running mate in 2012, the most dramatic detail in the potential veep's biography was the tragic loss of his father when Ryan was just 16.

Ernst Says She Was Sexually Harassed in the Military  —  Breaks with party, Pentagon on stance  —  Republican State Sen. Joni Ernst, who is running for Senate and served more than 20 years in the military, said Friday that she was sexually harassed in the military and, given her experience …

Al Gore sues Al Jazeera for fraud  —  Former Vice President Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt have filed a lawsuit against Al Jazeera on charges of fraud and material breaches in their acquisition of Current Media, POLITICO has learned.  —  Gore and Hyatt, the co-founders of Current Media …

Candidate Can't Explain His Position On Women's Health, Forgets What Birth Control Is  —  Rep. Mike Coffman,, left, and Democratic challenger Andrew Romanoff smile at the start of a their first debate  —  At a political debate on Thursday night, a GOP candidate for the U.S. House …

Huge asteroid that ‘could end human life’ defying gravity as it moves towards Earth, scientists say  —  Scientists have moved closer to being able to stop a huge asteroid colliding with the Earth and potentially wiping out human life.  —  Researchers at the University of Tennessee have discovered …

Twitter User Appears To Provide Eyewitness Account Of Teen Shooting  —  A Twitter user appears to have provided a contemporaneous account from the scene of the Ferguson, Mo., police shooting of Michael Brown, 18, on Saturday, Aug. 9.  —  The account of the incident was found and curated …

There Is A Man In Texas Who Has Been Imprisoned 34 Years Without A Conviction  —  In 1977, a Texas man named Jerry Hartfield was convicted of murder.  His conviction was tossed out three years later because the process used to select his jury was unconstitutional.

Meet Montana's Nose-Ringed Candidate for the U.S. Senate  —  A week ago, Amanda Curtis was a just math teacher from Butte with a TED talk.  Now she's the last-minute frontrunner to hold on to the Democrats' Big Sky Senate seat.  —  In recent years, Montana has been electing a certain breed of burly, alpha male Democrats.

Why Is Dem Nunn Touting Endorsement From Zell Miller?  —  Georgia Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn's campaign has been strongly touting a new, major endorsement: former Georgia governor and Sen. Zell Miller (D).  —  Miller supported segregationist candidates early in his career and then became …

Buying Main Street: Billionaires swamp local races  —  It was a gut-punch moment for the local lawman: Already sweating a tough reelection race, he'd just received word that one of the country's most powerful billionaires was trying to oust him from the Milwaukee County sheriff's seat.

Hillary Clinton Stars In “House Of Cards” Spoof For Her Husband's Birthday  —  Brought to you by the Clinton Foundation.  —  Hillary Clinton stars a House of Cards-style video for her husband's upcoming 68th birthday.  —  The bill features a couple jokes about Clinton running for president …

A Climate Crusader's Comeuppance  —  Billionaire Tom Steyer's vow to make politicians toe the green line isn't working out so well.

Salt - The Science Was Settled!  —  The science was settled on salt, or at least the talking points were - less was better, and the typical American consumed too much.  —  Now it turns out the low-salt deniers may be on to something; here is NBC News:  —  Pour on the Salt?  New Research Suggests More Is OK