Charlie Hebdo staff vow to publish next week with 1m print run  —  Writer for satirical magazine says ‘stupidity will not win’ as Google pledges to donate €250,000 to support the publication  —  Surviving staff members of Charlie Hebdo have vowed to publish the satirical weekly next Wednesday …

Dems' Big Conundrum In GOP Senate: How To Deploy The Filibuster?  —  When Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) took to his chamber's floor on Wednesday he warned that the now minority Senate Democrats “had no intention of just rolling over” but added that the “gratuitous obstruction …

Grand jury recommends criminal charges against Attorney General Kathleen Kane  —  The special prosecutor and grand jury investigating allegations that Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane leaked secret information to a newspaper have found evidence of wrongdoing and recommended that she be criminally charged …

It's All Right with Sam  —  Samuel A. Alito Jr. may be the least recognizable of Supreme Court justices.  I doubt if one American in a thousand could pick him out of a lineup.  Those who do know the name, if not the face, of the 64-year-old justice most likely lump him with the other conservatives …

Extended Tamir Rice shooting video shows officers restrained sister  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland police officers forced Tamir Rice's 14-year-old sister to the ground, handcuffed her and placed in the back of a Cleveland police car steps away from her wounded 12-year-old brother.

Manchin: Keystone veto threat ‘not the way a democracy works’  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Thursday he was disappointed that the White House threatened to veto his legislation approving the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing the president's move was “not the way a democracy works.”

Most of America's rich think the poor have it easy  —  There is little empathy at the top.  —  Most of America's richest think poor people have it easy in this country, according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center.  The center surveyed a nationally representative group …

Do Americans Have a ‘Right to Rise’?  —  If Jeb Bush is trying to show Republicans that he's conservative enough to be their nominee, he has a strange way of showing it.  Consider the manifesto of his newly created political action committee, The Right to Rise.

Ben Carson Apologizes For Plagiarism In Book  —  The book's publisher says it will update future printings.  “I apologize, and I am working with my editors to rectify the situation,” Carson tells BuzzFeed News.  —  Ben Carson Facebook  —  Dr. Ben Carson apologized Thursday for instances …

The King, the Conspiracies, and the American Dream  —  Elvis Presley would have turned 80 today.  Letting go of him meant reckoning with part of a nation's identity.  —  “I have seen Elvis in the supermarket,” the letter said.  —  It was sent from Bay City, Michigan, to the columnist Ann Landers, who published it in 1988.

Terror suspects in Charlie Hebdo massacre were on U.S. ‘no fly’ list  —  Yahoo News 1 hr ago  —  The two brothers wanted in the terror attack on a French weekly that killed 12 people Wednesday had long been viewed by U.S. officials as potential terror suspects, prompting them to be placed on a …

People know the consequences: Opposing view  —  Why did France allow the tabloid to provoke Muslims?  —  Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone.  Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression …

The Bill de Blasio Marijuana Rumors are Coming from Cops  —  For the bulk of his tenure, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has been dogged by rumors that he and his wife consume marijuana with some frequency.  Yesterday, at a press conference in Brooklyn, he told a Daily Caller reporter that …

The Effect of Eliminating the Affordable Care Act's Tax Credits in Federally Facilitated Marketplaces  — Related Topics: - Health Care Reform, - Health Insurance Markets, - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act  —  DOWNLOAD FREE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT  —  Use Adobe Acrobat Reader version 7.0 or higher for the best experience.

The Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act  —  ABSTRACT  —  I examine the impact of state policy decisions on the early impact of the ACA using data through the first half of 2014.  I focus on the individual health insurance market, which includes plans purchased through exchanges as well as plans purchased directly from insurers.

Suburbs and the New American Poverty  —  NORCROSS, Ga.—Every weekday around 3:15 p.m., a big, yellow school bus stops on Pelican Drive outside Norcross Extended Stay, near the intersection with Best Friend Drive.  —  Dozens of children file out, carrying their heavy backpacks away …

Lindsey Graham: Obama's Policies ‘Getting a Lot of People Killed’  —  While discussing the ramifications of Wednesday's terrorist attack at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said President Barack Obama's policies and campaign promises are …

The New World Order  —  The Republican White House field is scrambled earlier than expected  —  Well, that didn't last long!  By that, we mean our pre-Christmas ordering of the GOP presidential field.  We shouldn't be surprised.  Politics never takes a long holiday break anymore.

Dean Baquet addresses NYT's republication of anti-Semitic cartoons  —  New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet decided that his paper would not publish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad primarily because he did not want to insult the paper's Muslim readers.