DSCC Goes Dark in Kentucky  —  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has gone dark in Kentucky, where the party is targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  —  After a significant investment in support of Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes …

This Independent Candidate Is Proof of How Far to the Right Republicans Have Swung  —  On Monday afternoon, the four candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat in South Dakota participated in a forum in Sioux Falls.  The event itself was unremarkable, with each candidate offering his views …

New Ebola Cases May Soon Reach 10,000 a Week, Health Officials Predict  —  UNITED NATIONS — Schools have shut down, elections have been postponed, mining and logging companies have withdrawn, farmers have abandoned their fields.  The Ebola virus ravaging West Africa has renewed the risk …

Hillary Clinton Cracks Herself Up Over Pot Joke  —  Hillary Clinton got laughs when she took a “pot” shot at Colorado's marijuana laws during a campaign stop at a coffee shop.  —  During the former secretary of state's visit to Denver Monday, a barista at the Pigtrain Coffee shop made Clinton …

10-Year-Old Boy Charged with Homicide of 90-Year-Old Woman … DAMASCUS TOWNSHIP — State police charged a 10-year-old boy with criminal homicide on Monday.  —  Troopers told Newswatch 16 the child's mother is the one who told police about what her son had done.

Mideast violence spreads as Turkey bombs Kurdish militants  —  (Reuters) - War against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq threatened to spill into Turkey on Tuesday, where reports emerged that the air force had bombed Kurdish fighters furious at Ankara's refusal to help protect their kin in Syria.

Klayman: Obama Must Be ‘Taken Alive’ For Bringing Ebola To America To Afflict White People  —  Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit against President Obama for “providing material support and aid to international terrorism and facilitating terrorism” …

Jimmy John's Makes Low-Wage Workers Sign ‘Oppressive’ Noncompete Agreements  —  If you're considering working at a Jimmy John's sandwich shop, you may want to read the fine print on your job application.  —  A Jimmy John's employment agreement provided to The Huffington Post includes a …

Does Liberalism Have an Answer to Campus Rape?  —  You're either for us or you're for the rapists.  —  Shares  —  Americans tend to cherish liberal values, at least until we face frightening and morally outrageous threats, at which point they often give way.

Texas Attorney General: ‘It Does Not Matter’ If Same-Sex Marriage Benefits Children  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/The McAllen Monitor, Joel Martinez  —  The marriage equality fight is still playing out in many states, and on Friday, Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott (R) …

Ann Romney launches new center to study neurological diseases  —  Let some in the political world obsess over whether Mitt Romney plans to run for president for a third time — Ann Romney has a bigger project in mind.  —  On Tuesday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston …

Justices Stop Parts of Texas Abortion Law  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked key parts of a 2013 law in Texas that had closed all but eight facilities providing abortions in America's second most-populous state.  —  In an unsigned order, the justices sided with abortion rights advocates …

‘White boy’ Biden calls tea party ‘crazy’  —  Washington (CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden, in a closed-door meeting with black clergy in South Carolina Tuesday, referred to himself as “the only white boy on the east side of Wilmington” as he recalled his days as a Delaware public defender …

Houston, we have a problem  —  Angry over voter lawsuit, city demands to pick through sermons, other communications from pastors who aren't involved  —  HOUSTON - Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys have filed a motion in a Texas court to stop an attempt by the city of Houston to subpoena sermons …

Todd Akin turns left  —  2014 ELECTIONS ABORTION CAMPAIGNS WENDY DAVIS GREG ABBOTT HOUSE OF CARDS CORY GARDNER MARK UDALL  —  For two years, Republicans have been haunted by Todd Akin syndrome, in which a spectacular gaffe in an abortion-themed context becomes a costly embarrassment to a candidate's party.

Forensic evidence shows teen shot at St. Louis officer, police say  —  • By Christine Byers cbyers@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8087 and Robert Patrick rpatrick@post-dispatch.com 314-321-5154  —  ST. LOUIS  • Gunshot residue tests and ballistics evidence indicate …

China's Dangerous Game  —  The country's intensifying efforts to redraw maritime borders have its neighbors, and the U.S., fearing war.  But does the aggression reflect a government growing in power—or one facing a crisis of legitimacy?  —  In the tranquil harbors that dot the coastline of Palawan …