Legal Authority for Fighting ISIS  —  As the Pentagon gears up to expand its fight against ISIS, a fundamentalist Sunni militant group that controls large areas of Iraq and Syria, Congress appears perfectly willing to abdicate one of its most consequential powers: the authority to declare war.

Sarah Palin's Family Allegedly in Alaska House Party Brawl  —  Sarah Palin and her family were at the center of a lively party last weekend that erupted into a fight, with daughter Bristol Palin allegedly throwing a right hook, a man who says he was a guest at the party told ABC News.

Obama's strategy: Kill ISIS before they kill us  —  Obama lays out ISIS strategy … (CNN) — Think that President Barack Obama has done a back flip on Iraq and Syria, gotten that old-time religion and is now a convert to the “let's kill them wherever we find them” approach of his predecessors?

Shedding Light on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC): Court Findings from Our 2007-2008 Case  —  Today we are pleased to announce the release of more than 1,500 pages of once-secret papers from Yahoo's 2007-2008 challenge to the expansion of U.S. surveillance laws.

Democrats' whopper of a strategy flop  —  President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies hoped to capitalize on the recent wave of companies ditching the U.S. to slice their tax bill as a populist issue to fire up the progressive base and bash Republicans as slaves to corporate interests.

Oscar Pistorius convicted of negligent killing, could face jail time  —  South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius, who was cleared of murder in the killing of his girlfriend, was convicted Friday on the lesser charge of culpable homicide.  —  Judge Thokozile Masipa accepted the athlete's defense …

New Comic to Anchor ‘Update’ on ‘S.N.L.’  —  The new season of “Saturday Night Live” will have a significant change in its cast and its most prominent segment, “Weekend Update.”  —  Michael Che, a comic perhaps best known for his role as a correspondent on Comedy Central's “The Daily Show …

Getting There  —  How to transition from Obamacare to real health care reform  —  Obamacare—or at least the version of it that the president and his advisers currently think they can get away with putting into place—has been upending arrangements and reshuffling the deck in the health system since the beginning of the year.

Clinton tops Democrats in Iowa while Huckabee leads Republicans  —  Washington (CNN) — Hillary Clinton is heading to Iowa as the politician that most Democrats would choose as their 2016 presidential nominee.  —  According to a new CNN/ORC poll, 53% of all registered Democrats contacted …

Westlake Lives!  —  Tasty morsels from the late master's larder  —  Imagine that a beloved family member has died unexpectedly, leaving a huge void in your life.  Logic dictates that you will never hear another word from the deceased again.  But then, the departed contacts you in an hours-long séance!

Convicted high school shooter TJ Lane back in custody after prison escape  —  (CNN) — T.J. Lane, a remorseless killer who escaped from an Ohio prison where he was serving three life sentences for a school shooting, has been recaptured, a law enforcement official said.

What We're Afraid to Say About Ebola  —  MINNEAPOLIS — THE Ebola epidemic in West Africa has the potential to alter history as much as any plague has ever done.  —  There have been more than 4,300 cases and 2,300 deaths over the past six months.  Last week, the World Health Organization warned that …

Voting rights cases may be headed back to Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's decision last year eliminating a barrier against voting procedure changes in mostly Southern states came with a caveat: Chief Justice John Roberts warned that the Voting Rights Act still included a …

Obama's uncertain trumpet  —  Again, he halfheartedly leads the nation into battle  —  In his Islamic State speech, President Obama said many of the right things.  Most importantly, he finally got the mission right: degrade and destroy the enemy.  —  This alone will probably get him a bump …