JPMorgan CEO helped whip votes  —  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made calls to lawmakers on Thursday urging them to support the “cromnibus” spending bill, House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told reporters.  —  Dimon's involvement came amidst progressives enraged …

Issa Subpoenas ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber  —  Last night, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., subpoenaed ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber for all documents and communications with federal, state, or local government employees related …

Leaked Emails Reveal Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication  —  The end result: kudos at the studio and an email to Dowd after it published saying, “you're amazing.”  —  New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd speaks during a taping of Meet the Press at the NBC studios.

Michel du Cille, Post photojournalist who won Pulitzer three times, dies at 58 … Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients …

Torture Is Who We Are  —  A country, like a person, is what it does.  —  Torture, declared President Obama this week, in response to the newly released Senate report on CIA interrogation, is “contrary to who we are.”  Maine Senator Angus King added that, “This is not America.  This is not who we are.”

Dogs in Heaven?  Pope Francis Leaves Pearly Gate Open  —  Pope Francis has given hope to gays, unmarried couples and advocates of the Big Bang theory.  Now, he has endeared himself to dog lovers, animal rights activists and vegans.  —  Trying to console a distraught little boy whose dog had died …

Veteran Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale dead at 43  —  Dominic Di-Natale, a globetrotting journalist whose work at Fox News Channel and other news organizations took him to Usama bin Laden's compound, demonstrations in Egypt's Tahrir Square and, more recently, to the scene of racially charged riots in Ferguson, Mo., has died.

Nonemployed: The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind  —  The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind  —  Many men aged 25 to 54 have decided that low-wage jobs will not improve their lives.  Their absence from the work force has consequences for the nation.

ISIS issues guidelines for sex slavery  —  Shares -  —  Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have kidnapped thousands of women and girls in their raids on non-Sunni Muslim towns and villages across northern Syria and western Iraq.  —  Many of the captives are believed to be sold …

Ed Rendell trash-talks ‘pathetic’ Chris Christie's Cowboys loyalty  —  (CNN) — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Gov. Chris Christie's unapologetic love for the Dallas Cowboys is “pathetic,” adding that it's rooted in a “basic inferiority complex.”  —  “If you are a Jerseyite …

New Questions Raised About Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story … The college students described as friends of the alleged rape victim Jackie in an explosive Rolling Stone article revealed their identities to ABC News today, and said that some of the magazine's story is false.

Rand Paul And Apple Have The Same Strategy  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Apple both seem to understand the marketplace.  —  Apple is betting bipartisan concern about intrusive government snooping will help sell phones, and Paul is creating a pretty impressive presidential campaign based on the same play.