CIA Interrogations Saved Lives  —  The Senate Intelligence investigators never spoke to us—the leaders of the agency whose policies they are now assailing for partisan reasons.  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee has released its majority report on Central Intelligence Agency detention and interrogation in the wake of 9/11.

Harvard Business School Professor Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food  —  Ben Edelman (left) and Ran Duan (right)  —  Ben Edelman is an associate professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit.

Source: Rolling Stone Deputy Editor Tendered Resignation; Wenner Declines  —  Deputy managing editor offered to resign in wake of UVA reporting brouhaha  —  Rolling Stone Managing Editor at Will Dana speaks onstage at the New York Public Library on October 17, 2013.

Congress Will Say D.C. Can Legalize Pot, But Can't Tax or Regulate It  —  D.C. mayor and council will be blocked by spending bill from taking additional steps on marijuana law.  —  Congress will prevent the District of Columbia from writing regulations to expand its recently passed ballot …

Harry Reid makes push for nominees  —  Senate Democrats plan to squeeze every last drop out of their majority, threatening to extend the lame duck to approve key nominees of President Barack Obama before turning over Senate control to Republicans in January.

Issa To Gruber: ‘Are You Stupid?’  —  House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) cut right to the chase in his questioning of MIT professor Jonathan Gruber's comments on the “stupidity of the American voter” at a Tuesday oversight committee hearing.

Cops swarm Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue, shoot knife-wielding man after student gets stabbed (VIDEO)  —  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT NYPD anti-terror officers swarmed Chabad-Lubavitch in Crown Heights after Israeli student Levi Rosenviat, 22, was stabbed during prayer early Tuesday.

Congressional Leaders Reach Deal on Spending  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders reached a deal Tuesday on a more than $1 trillion spending package that would fund most of the federal government through the current fiscal year.  —  But because negotiations on the package dragged over policy details …

Rick Perry, hungry for redemption, says he's a ‘substantially different’ candidate  —  AUSTIN — The man who could be president is ambling through the Texas governor's mansion on his own, whistling “Frosty the Snowman” as he approaches the parlor room to greet a reporter.

FBI Files Charges Against President Of Company Behind West Virginia Chemical Spill  —  Gary Southern, president of Freedom Industries, takes a sip of water at a press conference on the chemical spill.  —  The former president of the company that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 West Virginians …