Gunmen Kill 12 at Paris Offices of Satirical Newspaper Charlie Hebdo  —  PARIS — Masked gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire in the offices of a French satirical newspaper on Wednesday in Paris, the police said, killing 12 people and then escaping in a car.

Boehner takes revenge  —  Foes find themselves losing plum committee posts.  —  John Boehner is getting revenge.  —  He secured his third term as speaker Tuesday afternoon, losing 25 votes on the House floor to three relatively unknown members of the House Republican Conference.

OK, So What Really Happened to Harry Reid?  —  We wrote here about Harry Reid's supposed close encounter with a piece of exercise equipment, which handed him in the hospital.  The equipment was later claimed by Reid's office to be an elastic exercise band.  This is how the accident allegedly happened:

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Soaring Bond Prices May Sound an Economic Warning  —  The United States economy is accelerating, unemployment is falling and wages are even beginning to creep higher.  —  Yet a huge bond market with a strong track record for predicting economic problems is flashing a warning sign right now.

Explosion outside NAACP in Colorado deliberate, FBI says  —  An explosion outside an NAACP office building in Colorado on Tuesday morning that rattled neighbors was caused deliberately, officials say.  —  An improvised explosive device was detonated against the exterior wall of the NAACP building …

How Congress, President Obama can get things done  —  McConnell: Not opposed to negotiating with the Pres. 05:52  —  Story highlights … (CNN)Yesterday, members of the 114th Congress took the oath of office and ushered in a new Republican majority.  It's a fresh beginning for our country, and I'm optimistic.

In U.S., Uninsured Rate Sinks to 12.9%  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate among U.S. adults for the fourth quarter of 2014 averaged 12.9%.  This is down slightly from 13.4% in the third quarter of 2014 and down significantly from 17.1% a year ago.

The Troll's Lawyer  —  A virulent Jew-hating hacktivist and a burned-out, unemployed lawyer teamed up to challenge a sweeping computer crime law.  Here's how they beat the Feds.  —  Tor Ekeland met his Client Number One at Trinity Place Bar, a downtown Manhattan watering hole built into an old bank vault, in 2011.

An Aging Europe in Decline  —  “I'VE fallen and I can't get up.”  —  These words, shouted by an elderly woman, were made famous in a medical alert device ad in the 1990s.  In 2015, they might be Europe's catchphrase.  —  As the United States economy slowly recovers …

This Ingenious Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water  —  I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.  They made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated.  A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

Ben Carson's History Book Plagiarizes SocialismSucks.Net And Many Other Sources  —  “If it is determined that additional citations or attribution are required, the appropriate revisions will be made in subsequent printings.”  —  Ben Carson Facebook  —  Several sections of potential …

Kirsten Gillibrand gears up for another round  —  The senator plans new push for changes in military command structure.  —  AP Photo  —  A dozen colleagues promised Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in March that if the Pentagon didn't shape up, they would reconsider her proposal to take sexual assault cases out of the chain of command.

New GOP Congress Fires Shot At Social Security On Day One  —  With a little-noticed proposal, Republicans took aim at Social Security on the very first day of the 114th Congress.  —  The incoming GOP majority approved late Tuesday a new rule that experts say could provoke an unprecedented crisis …

Exclusive interview: Obama says cheap gas won't last  —  Washington - — President Barack Obama is warning Americans that cheap gas prices won't last indefinitely, and he's standing by his support of small, fuel-efficient vehicles.  —  “I would strongly advise American consumers to continue …