The Pitiful Whimper of 2014  —  IMAGINE a house ablaze.  Now picture a team of firefighters pulling up to it.  They behold the flames shooting through its roof.  They feel its heat on their faces.  And they get in position to fight it.  —  With squirt guns.

I barred Netanyahu from State Dept., Baker says  —  James Baker, a former secretary of State, didn't seem troubled during an interview on Sunday by recent anonymous comments from Obama administration officials knocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

A Flood of Late Spending on Midterm Elections, From Murky Sources  —  A stealthy coterie of difficult-to-trace outside groups is slipping tens of millions of dollars of attacks ads and negative automated telephone calls into the final days of the midterm campaign, helping fuel an unprecedented surge of last-minute spending.

62p AN HOUR: What women sleeping 16 to a room get paid to make Ed and Harriet's £45 ‘This Is What A Feminist Looks Like’ T-shirts  — Deputy chief executive of the charity Dr Neitzert said they had originally been assured the garments would be produced ethically in the UK

Second Campaign Staffer Accuses GOP Congressional Candidate Carl DeMaio Of Sexual Harassment  —  Justin Harper, a staffer for Carl DeMaio's congressional campaign, works the phones in DeMaio's campaign office on May 28, 2014.  Harper is on the far left.  Less than two months later, Harper says DeMaio sexually harassed him.

Inside Manhattan's secret ‘cult’  —  Former “Congregation for the Light” member Paul Arthur Miller said members of “the Light” couldn't have artwork or trinkets in their homes unless it contained an owl or a cross with an “X” on it.  —  It's a secret society that claims that its followers descended from a …

Taxpayer Dollars Used For Voter Suppression In Milwaukee  —  Republican Milwaukee County Supervisor Deanna Alexander uses taxpayer dollars to falsely inform her constituents that they need photo ID to vote.  —  Milwaukee County Supervisor Deanna Alexander is a Republican's Republican.

AP Exclusive: Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media  —  1 photo  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, Missouri, for 12 days in August for safety, but audio recordings show …

Coulter: Democrats Targeting Low-IQ ‘Bottom 51 Percent’ Who Care About Women's Rights  —  Conservative columnist Ann Coulter on Sunday accused Democrats supporting women's rights to win the “bottom 51 percent” of voters “in terms of IQ.”  —  Conservative columnist Ann Coulter …

New York Marathon 2014: Wilson Kipsang Wins Race and World Majors Bonus  —  As Wilson Kipsang of Kenya and Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia ran stride for stride into the last stretch of the New York City Marathon on Sunday morning, a long run turned into an unusually personal sprint.

Bracing for the Falls of an Aging Nation  —  As the population ages and people live longer in bad shape, the number of older Americans who fall and suffer serious, even fatal, injuries is soaring.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Eleanor Hammer, 92, executes a tightly choreographed …

Syrian rebels armed and trained by US surrender to al-Qaeda  —  Moderate rebels in Syria that the US have armed and trained to fight jihadists have surrendered to al-Qaeda  —  Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in Syria have surrendered to al-Qaeda.