Intruder Made It Through White House Doors, Secret Service Says  —  WASHINGTON — A Texas man who scaled the White House fence made it through the North Portico doors on Friday night before being apprehended, the Secret Service said.  —  The intruder, Omar J. Gonzalez, 42 …

Rice case: purposeful misdirection by team, scant investigation by NFL  —  The seven-month scandal that is threatening Roger Goodell's future as NFL commissioner began with an unexpected phone call in the early morning hours on a Saturday in February.  —  Just hours after running …

Why Joe Biden's Gaffes Don't Matter  —  Though the vice president has a long history of blunders, they've rarely impacted his career.  —  Joe Biden misspeaking, or going too far, isn't news.  The vice president's gaffe history is legendary; mistakes are expected.  But three slips in the space of a mere 24 hours?

Financial Criminals Have Been Fined Billions, but They Rarely Pay  —  On a plane earlier this week, I watched The Wolf of Wall Street.  The film's outsized antics—public masturbation, the tossing of little people, lots and lots of Quaaludes—seemed too big for a seatback screen, or, for that matter, reality.

Kerry Says Iran Has Role in Defeating Islamic State  —  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Iran has a role to play in an international coalition to take on Islamic State extremists.  —  “The coalition required to eliminate ISIL is not only, or even primarily, military in nature,” …

Shares  —  ISIS seized a third of Iraq that the U.S. secured with ten years of sacrifice.  In an interview for 60 Minutes, Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said ISIS flourished because the U.S. got involved in Syria too late and left Iraq too soon.  On the 47th season premiere Sunday …

NBC says it was wrong on Chris Christie report  —  NEWARK - NBC says a report by Brian Williams on the network's Nightly News that federal charges have been ruled out for Gov. Chris Christie in the George Washington Bridge scandal was incorrect.  —  Is Christie off the hook?

Dem Rep: 40 American ISIL Fighters Have Already Returned to the United States  —  Rep. Tim Bishop (D., N.Y.) warned during a recent speech that up to 40 radicalized U.S. citizens who have fought alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) have already returned to the United States …

Groups edge in on Klayman NSA surveillance case  —  Two civil liberties groups are edging in on conservative gadfly Larry Klayman's legal challenge to National Security Agency surveillance.  —  On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation asked to join …

Report: Obama to personally sign off on any Syria airstrikes  —  President Obama has asked to personally sign off on all airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Syria, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.  —  Obama has reportedly set far …

There Are Social and Political Benefits to Having Friends  —  Somebody recently asked me what I would do if I had $500 million to give away.  My first thought was that I'd become a moderate version of the Koch brothers.  I'd pay for independent candidates to run against Democratic …