Terror Attack on Charlie Hebdo Newspaper in Paris Kills 12  —  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.  —  President François Hollande …

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.

McConnell promises dramatic change  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told colleagues on the first full day of the new Congress to expect a dramatic change from his predecessor, Democratic leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).  —  He pledged he would decentralize power in the Senate …

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:

Exclusive: Bill Cosby Co-Star Tony Winner Phylicia Rashad Speaks Out for First Time, Defends Her Friend  —  EXCLUSIVE It was just happenstance: I ran into Tony winner Phylicia Rashad today at Paramount's super elegant lunch for the movie “Selma” at the Metropolitan Club.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Pneumatic Fever  —  The Supreme Court doesn't want to rush into embracing new technology.  But it shouldn't crawl either.  —  Next to the ball drop in Times Square, the most exciting moment of New Year's Eve is when the chief justice releases his year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary …

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 …

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.

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.