Governor Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Ferguson Grand Jury Decision  —  Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) declared a state of emergency Monday, preempting a grand jury decision in the Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown that is expected to be delivered any day.

As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37%  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period begins, 37% of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January.

How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws  —  Washington (CNN) — Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination.

Another ObamaCare Deception  —  As Jonathan Gruber knows, the health-care law is a tax machine.  The ‘Cadillac’ levy will hit the middle class.  —  Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist, is making himself a household name, and not in a good way.

Stop calling me ‘the Ebola nurse’  —  I never had Ebola, and politicians who lie do nothing to protect your health  —  I never had Ebola.  I never had symptoms of Ebola.  I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey governor Chris Christie's private prison in Newark.

The Extraordinary Smallness of Washington  —  Institutional shrinkage marks the politics and governing of the Bush-Obama era.  —  President Obama is shrinking before our eyes.  Squint and you might see his rivals running Congress: itsy-bitsy John Boehner and minute Mitch McConnell.

Poll: Resistance to Obama order on immigration  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's plan to sign an executive order on immigration, expected as early as this week, will meet more resistance than support, a new USA TODAY Poll finds.  Close to half of those surveyed, 46%, say he should wait …

Why Hillary 2016 Thinks She Can Expand Obama's Electoral Map  —  The top minds in the proto-Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign infrastructure are already gaming out Electoral College scenarios.  What they think they have is a candidate who could compete in a handful of traditionally red states …

Protesters SWARM Mary Landrieu's Capitol Hill Home  —  SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare  —  VIDEO  —  Explosive New Gruber Video Uncovered  —  Issa Out!  Republicans To Pick New Oversight Chairman  —  POLITICS |  PATRICK HOWLEY

Legally married same-sex couples won't be allowed to stay together at City Union Mission  —  For 90 years, the City Union Mission in the heart of Kansas City has given a roof, meals and warm beds to homeless individuals and families in need.  —  That fact alone, said executive director Dan Doty …

Will the Obama coalition survive?  —  The coalition of voters that twice elected President Obama to the White House might not be there for the Democratic nominee in 2016, party strategists are warning.  —  Following their disastrous showing at the polls this month, many Democrats …

Dr Matt Taylor's shirt made me cry, too - with rage at his abusers  —  An astrophysicist who deserves our applause has been pilloried in his moment of triumph  —  The other day the brilliant space scientist Dr Matt Taylor was asked to give a report on the progress of Philae …

Iran Nuclear Pact Faces an Array of Opposing Forces  —  WASHINGTON — When President Obama wrote last month to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to overcome a decade of mistrust and negotiate a deal limiting Tehran's nuclear ambitions, it was perhaps the president's …

Before the Beheadings  —  Remembering a time when Islamist extremists wanted to persuade reporters, not kill them  —  In the spring of 2000, I lived for a month in a Taliban madrasa, a religious seminary, located on the Grand Trunk Road outside of Peshawar, in Pakistan.

Direct new challenges to Bakke ruling  —  The saga over the use of race in selecting new college entrants that began with the Supreme Court's famous ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke nearly four decades ago now has a new chapter — and it is intended to be the final one.

Federal drug agents launch surprise inspections of NFL teams following games  —  Federal drug agents conducted surprise inspections of NFL team medical staffs on Sunday as part of an ongoing investigation into prescription drug abuse in the league.  The Post's Sally Jenkins explains what happened and why.

Cassidy Headed for a Landslide in Louisiana Runoff  —  A new Magellan Strategies poll in Louisiana finds Bill Cassidy (R) crushing Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) in their runoff race for U.S. Senate, 57% to 41%.  —  “The president has got to learn that he lost this last election round.

The man whose memory failure helped save Bill Clinton's presidency  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE HILLARY CLINTON BILL CLINTON TWITTER SOCIAL MEDIA  —  This weekend, dozens of former top Clinton White House officials will gather in Little Rock to mark the tenth anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Library.

SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare [VIDEO]  —  President Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants will harm “the wages of blue-collar Americans” and “put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”