Breach Prompts Review of White House Security  —  WASHINGTON — The Secret Service will conduct an internal review of its security procedures around the White House after a man who jumped the fence Friday night at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue managed to make his way through the front door …

The Daily Show springs tense showdown with Native Americans on Redskins fans  —  The four die-hard Redskins fans thought the opportunity was as golden as the vintage helmets of their favorite football team: “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” wanted them to appear on the Comedy Central program …

Climate Science Is Not Settled  —  We are very far from the knowledge needed to make good climate policy, writes leading scientist Steven E. Koonin … The idea that “Climate science is settled” runs through today's popular and policy discussions.  Unfortunately, that claim is misguided.

Joe Green Pushed Out at FWD.us  —  Joe Green, the president of FWD.us, has resigned from the political organization that is backed by a coterie of tech luminaries, most prominently Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.  —  And, according to a “confidential” email that Zuckerberg sent …

Putin ‘privately threatened to invade Poland, Romania and the Baltic states’  —  German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung reports that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told European Commission that Putin made the threat in a recent conversation  —  President Vladimir Putin privately threatened …

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 …

These days, Democrats aren't talking much about Obama in congressional speeches  —  When President Obama took office in 2009, congressional Democrats were euphoric.  With control of the House, Senate and the White House, and high public approval for their new party standard bearer …

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.

Ex-Employees Say Home Depot Left Data Vulnerable  —  The risks were clear to computer experts inside Home Depot: The home improvement chain, they warned for years, might be easy prey for hackers.  —  But despite alarms as far back as 2008, Home Depot was slow to raise its defenses, according to former employees.

Peter Thiel: the billionaire tech entrepreneur on a mission to cheat death  —  The co-founder of PayPal and likely the most successful venture capitalist in Silicon Valley is on a mission to change the world through technology - and to find a cure for death  —  An hour into my conversation …

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 …