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.

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 …

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 …

The Jonathan Gruber hearing was a zany coda to Darrell Issa's tumultuous tenure  —  A gaffe, under the oft-cited Michael Kinsley rule, is when somebody in Washington accidentally speaks the truth.  But what happens when frankness leads you to say something so monumentally stupid …

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.

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.

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.