Who would Americans like to see on the campaign trail in 2016?  —  Shares -  —  The list of potential candidates for the presidency in 2016 is immense.  The list of declared contenders, though, is nonexistent.  —  If the latest CBS News poll is any indication, Americans would like to see a number …

Obama to Propose Capital Gains Tax Hikes to Benefit Middle Class  —  Senior White House officials say President Obama will use his state of the union to float several new economic ideas, including tax hikes on capital gains and wealthy inheritances, and new fees on the largest financial firms …

McConnell's cunning Keystone game  —  Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) strategy for defeating Democrats in the final two years of the Obama administration is clear: divide and conquer.  —  Last week, the Senate majority leader got 10 Democrats to vote with the GOP for a motion to continue debate …

Senator: Have to assume sleeper cells in US  —  A key U.S. senator said Sunday that Americans have to assume there are some “sleeper cells” within the U.S. that would like to carry out a terror attack.  —  Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he was not aware of any specific cells …

France Was Attacked by Islamic Fundamentalism  —  Paris — “To misname things is to add to the world's unhappiness.”  Whether or not Albert Camus really did utter these words, they are an astonishingly apt description of the situation in which the French government now finds itself.

U.S.-built Ebola treatment centers in Liberia are nearly empty as outbreak fades  —  TUBMANBURG, Liberia — Near the hillside shelter where dozens of men and women died of Ebola, a row of green U.S. military tents sit atop a vast expanse of imported gravel.  The generators hum …

Pope Francis planning to address joint session of Congress, organizer says  —  Pope Francis is planning to address a joint session of Congress and visit the White House during a trip to Washington, D.C. in September, one of the archbishops organizing the pontiff's trip said.

NYC may yank terrorism report to appease mosque ‘spying’ critics  —  Zale Thompson, a man who heeded online calls by ISIS for jihad, attacked two NYPD officers with a hatchet in October.  —  In top-secret talks to settle federal lawsuits against the NYPD for monitoring mosques …

Uproar after Miss Israel's selfie with Miss Lebanon  —  Miss Lebanon Saly Greige (left) is in hot water after she posed in a picture with Miss Israel Doron Matalon.  —  A Lebanese beauty queen pleaded self-ie defense after a Facebook pic of her posing with an Israeli pageant competitor caused outrage …

Focus on growth for the middle class  —  Lawrence Summers is a professor at and past president of Harvard University.  He was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and economic adviser to President Obama from 2009 through 2010.  —  The most challenging economic issue ahead of us involves …

Hating Good Government  —  It's now official: 2014 was the warmest year on record.  You might expect this to be a politically important milestone.  After all, climate change deniers have long used the blip of 1998 — an unusually hot year, mainly due to an upwelling of warm water in the Pacific …

N.S.A. Breached North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack, Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — The trail that led American officials to blame North Korea for the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November winds back to 2010, when the National Security Agency scrambled …