The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here  —  The Obama administration's anger is “red-hot” over Israel's settlement policies, and the Netanyahu government openly expresses contempt for Obama's understanding of the Middle East.  Profound changes in the relationship may be coming.

BREAKING: Court Refuses To Intervene In Case of 40,000 Missing Voters In Georgia  —  Dr. Francys Johnson with the NAACP leads an occupation of the Georgia State Capitol to protest voter suppression.  —  CREDIT: Alice Ollstein  —  ATLANTA, GEORGIA—On Tuesday, Judge Christopher Brasher …

Is the Washington Press Corps Covering Up Another Obama Administration Fiasco?  [Updated]  —  Last week, we got information from a source in the Executive Office of the President that the EOP's computer system had been down for, at that time, a week.  Federal IT personnel evidently …

Columnist Sets Off Storm Calling Michael Brown ‘Animal’ Who Had To Be ‘Put Down’  —  The frustration from Charleston Daily Mail's editor and publisher Brad McElhinny was clear when TPM reach him by phone on Tuesday afternoon.  —  “I've had better days,” he said.  —  His exasperation was understandable.

Pope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are right and God isn't ‘a magician with a magic wand’  —  Francis goes against Benedict XVI's apparent support for ‘intelligent design’ - but does hail his predecessor's ‘great contribution to theology’  —  The theories of evolution …

Chicago Activists Unchained, Destroy Black Leadership  —  Chicago activists Paul McKinley, Mark Carter, Joseph Watkins and Harold “Noonie” Ward recently went on the record with RebelPundit to deliver a message to black communities across the country.  —  That message shed's light on who they say are the …

Investigator in Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Resigns  —  WASHINGTON — The investigator who led the Department of Homeland Security's internal review of the Secret Service's 2012 prostitution scandal quietly resigned in August after he was implicated in his own incident involving a prostitute …

McConnell: ‘No One Thinks’ A GOP Senate Could Repeal Obamacare  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) downplayed the prospects of repealing Obamacare if Republicans win control of the Senate next week, which they are slightly favored to do in numerous forecasts.

Australia shuts borders to Ebola-affected countries  —  Australia has temporarily closed its borders to people from Ebola-affected west African nations as it steps up the nation's defences against the virus.  —  Immigration Minister Scott Morrison told parliament on Monday Australia …

Boehner seeks to run up score  —  DAVENPORT, Iowa — Speaker John Boehner is crisscrossing the country in a bid to run up his House majority and ease his job leading a fractious GOP conference.  —  The Ohio Republican is spending the final, precious days of the 2014 campaign flying …

Sarah Palin: Haters may drive me to run again  —  Message to Sarah Palin haters: The former Alaska governor says you can't get rid of her so easily.  —  In an interview with Fox Business Network, Palin had this to say when host Stuart Varney asked her whether the vitriol she gets from critics would drive her out of politics.

The Bumpkinification of the Midterm Elections  —  Joni Ernst, the Iowa state senator and Iraq War veteran, was standing in a barn in a purple flannel shirt and an unzipped vest.  Beside her, various swine burrowed in the hog lot; two small pigs spooned; there was copious squealing.

Small Town Deploys ‘Military-Style Maneuvers’ to Collect 75-Year-Old Man's Debt  —  What do you do when a 75-year-old man owes you $86,000?  —  If you're with the sheriff's department in Marathon County, Wisconsin, you send in a SWAT team.  —  The tiny town of Stettin, Wisconsin …

Alaska voters upset about public-shaming mailers, but experts say they work  —  On Saturday, Nikki Adams received an official-looking letter in her East Anchorage mailbox.  —  The return address was for an entity called the “Alaska State Voter Program,” and the envelope bore …

Army major general speaks to CNN from inside Ebola quarantine  —  Washington (CNN) — They're just back from the Ebola hot zone, they can't have any physical contact with family or loved ones and their plastic forks are being burned after each use.  —  But American troops quarantined in Italy …

FBI created fake Seattle Times Web page to nab bomb-threat suspect  —  The FBI created a fake news story on a bogus Seattle Times Web page to plant software in the computer of a suspect in a series of bomb threats to Timberline High School in 2007, documents reveal.

Melissa Rivers to file multimillion-dollar wrongful death lawsuit  —  Joan Rivers' daughter has selected a powerhouse Manhattan law firm and will file a multimillion-dollar medical malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit against the endoscopy clinic where the legendary comedian lapsed …