Wendy Davis is running one of the nastiest campaign ads you will ever see  —  Wendy Davis is almost certainly not going to be the next governor of Texas.  Apparently, though, she's willing to try just about anything to alter that reality.  —  Witness her new ad that begins with this visual.

Roberts vows to ‘shut down the Senate’ if Obama empties Gitmo  —  TOPEKA, Kansas — Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) on Friday vowed to block all legislation in the Senate with a prolonged filibuster if President Obama tries to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States.

Maneuvering Persists After Courts Block New Voter Conditions  —  Officials in Wisconsin and Texas sought ways to preserve their contested new voter identification requirements on Friday as civil rights groups celebrated two victories against laws they said would suppress minority voting.

By The Denver Post Editorial Board  —  (Kathryn Scott Osler, Denver Post file)  —  Congress is hardly functioning these days.  It can't pass legislation that is controversial and it often can't even pass legislation on which there is broad agreement.  Its reputation is abysmal …

Oregon's first lady admits illegal marriage to Ethiopian immigrant  —  Oregon first lady Cylvia Hayes admitted Thursday she illegally married an Ethiopian immigrant because she needed money and he needed help to stay in the United States.  —  Hayes said she married 18-year-old Abraham Abraham …

Bride-to-be 'becomes pregnant after having sex with dwarf stripper on hen night... and husband only realises when she gives birth'  —  A bride-to-be became pregnant after having sex with a dwarf stripper on her hen night, it has been claimed.  —  The woman had to confess to cheating …

EBOLA PATIENT'S TEMPERATURE SPIKED TO 103 DEGREES … DALLAS (AP) — Thomas Eric Duncan's temperature spiked to 103 degrees during the hours of his initial visit to an emergency room - a fever that was flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital's record-keeping system, his medical records show.

Kansas A.G. Derek Schmidt seeks to block same-sex marriage licenses after first couple wed in in Johnson County  —  Republican Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt went to court Friday to block Johnson County from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Pregnant teens who joined ISIS: We've made a huge mistake  —  The two teens are believed to be married, pregnant and living in the Islamic State-controlled city of Raqqa.  —  The teenage girls who abandoned their families in Austria to become jihadis for ISIS feel they've made a terrible mistake …

Police sorry for telling wrong family of death  —  1 photo  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska couple knocked on the door of their son's long-time girlfriend Thursday, intending to inform her that he'd been killed in a car accident.  —  Karen and Jay Priest instead were stunned when the son …

Secret Money Fueling a Flood of Political Ads  —  More than half of the general election advertising aired by outside groups in the battle for control of Congress has come from organizations that disclose little or nothing about their donors, a flood of secret money that is now at the center …

Gay Republican congressional candidate accused of sexual harassment  —  San Diego (CNN) — Charges of sexual misconduct, plagiarism and burglary have pitted a former staffer against a high-profile congressional candidate just weeks before the midterm elections.

Up to 700 trapped in Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, UN says  —  The UN special envoy to Syria has warned that up to 700 people, mainly elderly, are still trapped in the Syrian border town of Kobane.  —  Staffan de Mistura also urged Turkey to allow in volunteers to Syria to defend the town from Islamic State militants.

Obama: You Can't Get Ebola ‘Sitting Next to Someone on a Bus;’ CDC: ‘Avoid Public Transportation’  —  (CNSNews.com) - Speaking in a video message to residents of West African countries currently experiencing outbreaks of Ebola, President Barack Obama dispensed advice on how residents can avoid the disease …

U.S. taxpayers paid $486 million for Afghan air fleet.  DOD sold it for scrap.  —  The Defense Department destroyed nearly half a billion dollars worth of defective Italian aircraft that U.S. taxpayers bought for Afghanistan and then sold the scrap for $32,000, according to an agency watchdog.

Arkansas Tossed Ballot Of 79-Year-Old Woman Who Has Been Voting Since Jim Crow  —  Joy Dunn, 79, recalls what it was like to pay a poll tax during the Jim Crow era.  —  CREDIT: Alice Ollstein  —  LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS—In a small one-story house filled with knickknacks and stuffed animals …

South Dakota Senate candidate lives in D.C.  —  Larry Pressler, who is running for Senate in South Dakota as an independent, has his principal residence in Washington, according to District of Columbia tax records.  —  Pressler, who served as a Republican in Congress from 1975 to 1997 …

Deadly Force, in Black and White  —  by Ryan Gabrielson , Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara  —  Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts - 21 times greater i, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings.