Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Department Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review  —  As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants …

Skeet-Shooting Grimes Tells McConnell 'That's Not How You Hold A Gun'  —  In a new TV ad slated for a six-figure statewide buy, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes tells Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) he doesn't know how to hold a gun.  —  The 30-second ad features …

Arab Nations Offer to Fight ISIS From Air  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Sunday that “several” Arab nations had offered to join in airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, but any sustained military campaign does not appear imminent, and likely will require …

Senate has a secret book of rules  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has for years lived by a secret book of rules that governs everything from how many sheets of paper and potted plants each Senate office is allotted to when Senators can use taxpayer money to charter planes or boats.

State Republican Party Official Resigns After Suggesting Women On Welfare Should Be Sterilized  —  Former Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce  —  Former state Sen. Russell Pearce (R) resigned his position as first vice chair of the Arizona Republican Party late on Sunday evening amid criticism …

How to Get It Wrong  —  Last week I participated in a conference organized by Rethinking Economics, a student-run group hoping to promote, you guessed it, a rethinking of economics.  And Mammon knows that economics needs rethinking in the wake of a disastrous crisis, a crisis that was neither predicted nor prevented.

Why Hillary hates Iowa  —  INDIANOLA Iowa — “Hello, Iowa!” says Hillary Clinton, who has not set foot in Iowa for six years and eight months, and in fact, until quite recently has loathed the place.  —  She cautiously enunciates each word from her prepared text, even the jokes.

School's strict dress code nets 200 detentions, parent rebellion  —  Tottenville High School has implemented a strict dress code that's landed 200 kids in detention — and incited rebellion among the kids.  —  A strict dress code introduced by a Staten Island public high school principal …

Americans' Trust in Executive, Legislative Branches Down  —  Trust in all branches of federal government at or near record lows  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' trust in each of the three branches of the federal government is at or near the lows in Gallup's trends, dating back to the early 1970s.

The Name of the Fight  —  “Mr. President, everybody is asking in this country, are we or are we not at war?” a reporter asked Harry Truman at a White House press conference on June 29, 1950.  It was a reasonable question: two days earlier, in response to a swift, unexpected advance of North Korean troops …

POLITICO poll: GOP has edge on immigration in midterms  —  Nearly two-thirds of likely voters in battleground races this fall disapprove of President Barack Obama's handling of immigration, according to a new POLITICO poll — a public rebuke that comes after the White House grappled …

We're Number 32!  —  A new global index highlights the harm from the U.S. tax code.

Challenging the Privacy of Statements Inside the Jury Room  —  WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2006, not far from Mount Rushmore, a truck collided with a motorcycle.  The rider lost part of his leg.  —  The rider sued, but a South Dakota jury sided with the truck driver.

NFL's return to Congress  —  The NFL, after the worst week in its history, plans a variety of steps to try to tamp down rising criticism from Capitol Hill.  —  The league soon will begin announcing the hiring of outside advisers and counselors on domestic violence, similar to the talent surge …