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 …

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 …

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 …

Roberts's Frost  —  A few hours before the ball dropped in Times Square, the Supreme Court released Chief Justice Roberts's year-end report on the federal judiciary.  —  The report is a gem, as are so many of the chief's writings, and its discussion of the court's conservative approach …

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 …

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.

California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer to Retire  —  Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, one of the chamber's most tenacious liberals, announced Thursday she will not seek re-election in 2016 to a fifth term.  —  A staunch supporter of abortion rights, gun control and environmental protections …

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.”

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.

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 …

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.

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.

The GOP's Staten Island headache  —  National Republicans fear revival of Garner tensions.  —  National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming New York City special congressional election, as the party is poised to nominate a figure who could thrust the contest …

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 …

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.