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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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?

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?