Monica Lewinsky Gives Tearful Speech About Falling ‘In Love’ With Bill Clinton And Being Shamed Online  —  Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave an emotional speech about her role in one of the world's most infamous sex scandals on Monday in Philadelphia at the Forbes Under 30 Summit.

Michele Bachmann given security detail over ISIL threat  —  Federal law enforcement officials are taking an ISIL threat against Michele Bachmann so seriously that Capitol Police have given the Minnesota Republican her own security detail.  —  An online threat against Bachmann emerged recently …

Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard indicted on 23 felony corruption charges by Lee County Grand Jury  —  Mike Hubbard, speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives and a powerful leader in the state Republican Party, has been indicted by a grand jury and charged with 23 counts …

Clyburn challenger: Gay couples are ‘gremlins’  —  Rep. James Clyburn's (D-S.C.) Republican challenger referred to same-sex couples as “gremlins” and “bullies” in a Facebook post urging supporters to oppose gay marriage at the polls this fall.  —  Anthony Culler, the GOP nominee for Clyburn's seat …

The Worst Campaign Ad That Human Beings Actually Paid for This Year  —  A breathtakingly bad GOP ad in the one Senate race that's going great for Democrats.  —  Michigan's race for U.S. Senate is the sick man of the GOP's electoral map.  Halfway through the cycle, Republicans …

Oscar de la Renta, Who Clothed Stars and Became One, Dies at 82  —  Oscar de la Renta, the doyen of American fashion, whose career began in the 1950s in Franco's Spain, sprawled across the better living rooms of Paris and New York, and who was the last survivor of that generation of bold …

Here Are 5 Takeaways From The Harper's Anti-Clinton Story  —  In the November issue of Harper's magazine, Doug Henwood argues that Hillary Clinton, if elected president, would do little to assuage liberals' disappointment in President Barack Obama.  This is how Henwood sums up the case …

Indiana reinstates time limits for some food stamp recipients  —  WASHINGTON -  —  Indiana will begin cutting off food stamp benefits next year to tens of thousands of people who fail to get a job or train for work.  —  Beginning in the spring, the state will limit benefits …

Two Americas  —  In the course of pondering Ezra Klein's odd views on due process with respect to “Yes Means Yes” and rape allegations, I have come across the following popular notion, written by Tara Culp-Ressler of Think Progress and endorsed by Michelle Goldberg of The Nation.

Ebola hysteria: An epic, epidemic overreaction  —  (CNN) — This is getting ridiculous.  —  While the threat of Ebola is very real in Africa, the paranoia it's generated in the United States is unreal.  —  You can count the number of documented cases in America on two hands — and still have fingers to spare.

Donald Trump Says He'll Decide on 2016 Run Basically the Same Time Hillary Does  —  Game show host Donald Trump showed up in Iowa over the weekend to campaign for Rep. Steve King (R) and (because rules are rules) someone asked the billionaire if he has plans for a 2016 presidential campaign.

GOP Senator Campaign's Sunflower Fields Are In Ukraine  —  Pat Roberts represents the Sunflower State (Kansas).  —  The image Republican Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts on every page of his website and on his press releases of a sunset on a sunflower field is of a field in Ukraine.

Attorney General Candidate Says Fast Food Workers Should Get ‘A Real Job’  —  Striking workers outside a Chicago Burger King hold signs saying “We are worth more” in Spanish  —  MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN—Brad Schimel, the Republican candidate for Attorney General, told supporters …

Amazon's Monopsony Is Not O.K.  —  Amazon.com, the giant online retailer, has too much power, and it uses that power in ways that hurt America.  —  O.K., I know that was kind of abrupt.  But I wanted to get the central point out there right away, because discussions of Amazon tend, all too often, to get lost in side issues.

Cops: Losers Of Beer Pong Match Opened Fire On Fellow Texas Partygoers  —  After getting vanquished in a beer pong match, a group of sore losers opened fire early yesterday at a Texas house party, wounding a female reveler, police report.  —  The 1:20 AM shooting Sunday took place at a residence in Ames, a city 45 miles from Houston.

Rand Paul: The Most Interesting Conspiracy Theorist in Washington  —  Bilderbergers, the Iraq invasion, Alex Jones—the GOP senator has routinely flirted with America's paranoid fringe.  —  This past summer, Rand Paul, the libertarian senator from Kentucky and a potential 2016 presidential wannabe, was the GOP's It Girl.

ISIS forces launch multiple attacks on Kurdish territory in Iraq, officials say  —  (CNN) — ISIS militants launched about 15 near-simultaneous attacks on Kurdish forces in northern Iraq on Monday in what Kurdish government officials and the Kurdish news agency Rudaw said was a fierce and renewed push for Kurdish-held territory.

Meghan McCain: The right is wrong  —  Meghan McCain, always outspoken, says she's got one big regret — calling Rep. Michele Bachmann a “poor man's Sarah Palin.”  —  “That's the one if I could take it back I would, because I just think it's so linear and so nasty,” McCain said in an interview with POLITICO.