Bill Maher announced he's targeting Rep. John Kline.  He picked the wrong guy.  —  Comedian Bill Maher announced Friday night that he will personally target Republican Rep. John Kline (Minn.) for defeat in the November election — the culmination of his longstanding “Flip a District” …

UPDATED: EXCLUSIVE Details On Adrian Peterson Indictment Charges  —  Update: September 13, 9 am - Adrian Peterson has been booked and released following his indictment for negligent injury to a child charges.  —  Peterson was booked into the Montgomery County Texas Jail around 1:15am Saturday morning.

Why Travis McIntosh and Matt McCormick's wedding angers gay groups  —  TRAVIS McIntosh and Matt McCormick will get married tomorrow yet the matrimonial union has horrified gay rights groups.  —  Heterosexual best mates McIntosh and McCormick, who have known each other since the age of six …

Six Californias initiative fails to make 2016 ballot  —  A proposed ballot measure to carve California into six states failed to qualify for the November 2016 ballot Friday after election officials determined that backers did not collect enough valid signatures.

Brain Trauma to Affect One in Three Players, N.F.L. Agrees  —  The National Football League, which for years disputed evidence that its players had a high rate of severe brain damage, has stated in federal court documents that it expects nearly a third of retired players to develop long-term cognitive problems …

Obama Sees Iraq Resolution as a Legal Basis for Airstrikes, Official Says  —  WASHINGTON — The White House believes that Congress's 2002 authorization of the Iraq war — and not just the 2001 authorization to fight Al Qaeda — provides a legal justification for President Obama's air campaign …

Voter fraud probe roils Ga. Senate race  —  A group helmed by a major donor and policy adviser to Democratic Senate candidate Michele Nunn is under investigation by the Georgia secretary of State for alleged voter fraud.  —  Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) said in a memo, reported by WSB-TV …

DOJ Working With Elijah Cummings To Protect The IRS  —  IRS: An aide to the attorney general accidentally calls the office of the House Oversight Committee chairman, asking for help in spinning the defense of the agency whose head just said they obey the law when they can.

Anti-war crowd stunningly silent on ISIS plan  —  I could have sworn we were going to war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).  —  But the president, a well-known theologian, has informed us that despite what the Muslims of ISIS say, the Islamic State “is not Islamic.”