Court to rule on health care subsidies  —  The Supreme Court, moving back into the abiding controversy over the Affordable Care Act, agreed early Friday afternoon to decide how far the federal government can extend its program of subsidies to buyers of health insurance.

Obama authorizes 1,500 additional U.S. troops for deployment to Iraq  —  1 OF 2.  U.S. President Barack Obama (L) speaks as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel listens before the start of a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, November 7, 2014.

Mpls.  Mayor Flashes Gang Sign with Convicted Felon; Law Enforcement Outraged  —  5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has obtained a photo of Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges posing with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign.  —  The man in the photo is a twice-convicted felon for drug selling …

Obama's expected pick for Attorney General  —  Washington (CNN) — Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, is expected to be President Barack Obama's pick for Attorney General, U.S. officials briefed on the matter told CNN.  —  An announcement is expected in the coming days …

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin: People Just Don't Believe Obama Cares  —  West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin told TIME Thursday that President Barack Obama has lost his emotional connection with the American people.  —  “There's an old saying my grandmother would say …

Fox News cuts ties with Ben Carson  —  Following an ABC News report that Fox News contributor Ben Carson is set to air a 40-minute ad “introducing himself to the American people” as part of a 2016 presidential bid, Fox News has cut ties with him, according to a Fox spokeswoman.

State seeks emergency OK of license rules for immigrants in U.S. illegally  —  Facing a deadline of Jan. 2 to begin issuing driver's licenses to Californians in the country illegally, state officials said Friday they will pursue emergency approval of regulations that spell out which documents must …

To Catch a Crook: The F.B.I.'s Use of Deception  —  In “Deceptions of the F.B.I.” (editorial, Nov. 1), you use a 2007 Seattle bomb threat investigation and a 2014 defense lawyer's characterization of an unrelated Las Vegas illegal gambling investigation to express concern about the prospect …

MCINTURFF-HARRINGTON MORNING CONSULT COLUMN (11-6-14): THE ACA WAS NOT A SIGNIFICANT VOTE FACTOR THIS ELECTION  —  Public Opinion Strategies' Election Night Poll shows that the ACA was not as much of a vote factor in 2014 as it was in 2010.  —  Here is what we knew going into Election Day 2014:

Rob Portman looks at presidential run  —  Rob Portman is continuing to weigh a presidential run even as he leans toward running for reelection, he said in an interview on Friday afternoon.  —  The Ohio Republican senator doesn't have a precise timeline for his decision …

Fire Valerie Jarrett  —  If Obama really wants to shake things up, his closest adviser should be the first to go.  —  Almost since the start of Barack Obama's presidency, people who have actual, real duties in the West Wing of the White House—the working, executive part of the government …

Bernie Sanders Wants to Make Election Day a National Holiday  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is not happy that the voter turnout in Tuesday's midterm elections was so low — in fact, it hasn't been this low since the 1940s, and Sanders' own state saw its lowest turnout of registered voters in recorded history.

Triumph of the Wrong  —  The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet midterms to men of understanding.  Or as I put it on the eve of another Republican Party sweep, politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Joni Ernst spokeswoman resigned after OWI arrest  —  Gretchen Hamel, a campaign spokeswoman for Joni Ernst's U.S. Senate campaign, was arrested on Oct. 29 for operating while intoxicated and resigned the morning after the incident.  —  West Des Moines police found Hamel passed out behind …

In defeat, Obama tells GOP: My mandate is bigger than yours  —  WHITE HOUSE BARACK OBAMA 2014 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS GEORGE W. BUSH VIDEO  —  President Obama did something extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, in his post-election news conference Wednesday: He claimed a mandate on behalf of voters who didn't vote.

Oklahoma's senator-elect to use ‘biblical worldview’ to defeat the national debt  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Oklahoma Senator-elect James Lankford says his “biblical worldview” will guide his actions in the upper chamber.  —  “Budget, for me, is still a huge area.

McConnell: If Rand Paul runs for president, 'he'll be able to count on me'  —  LOUISVILLE — There were only two things Mitch McConnell didn't want to talk about Thursday — whether he will run for re-election in 2020 and his eventual legacy.  —  In his first one-on-one interview since …