Unhinged Woman Climbs Onstage At Iowa Freedom Summit, Starts Rambling Incoherently  —  At the “Iowa Freedom Summit,” Sarah Palin delivered a one of her strangest speeches yet and even Scott Conroy from RealClearPolitics, described it as the “strangest speech I've ever seen Sarah Palin deliver.”

Scott Walker takes Iowa by storm  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Scott Walker's stock is soaring after a triumphant return to Iowa.  —  The Wisconsin Republican governor delivered a pitch-perfect speech to a room packed with influential Hawkeye State conservatives on Saturday …

12 keys to the GOP presidential race right now  —  DES MOINES — As the Freedom Summit marks the unofficial start of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign here in Iowa, the race is already too sprawling, with too many characters and too many crosscurrents, to have a single theme.

Jewish outrage as ship named after SS war criminal arrives in Europe  —  As Holocaust day nears, anger erupts at arrival in Rotterdam of the Pieter Schelte, the world's largest vessel  —  Leaders of Jewish communities and Holocaust memorial groups in Britain and the Netherlands have reacted …

De Blasio, Obama and a Flawed Vision of Liberalism  —  MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO recently got some good news in his standoff with the Police Department.  In the first major poll conducted after the high-profile murder of two patrolmen, 69 percent of New Yorkers said they objected to police officers' turning …

Brazil finds coffee protein with morphine effect  —  14 hrs ago  —  Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian scientists have discovered a protein in coffee that has effects similar to pain reliever morphine, researchers at the state University of Brasilia (UnB) and state-owned Brazilian Agricultural …

‘This Week’ Transcript: White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough  —  Below is the rush transcript for “This Week” on January 25, 2015.  It may contain errors and will be updated.  —  Below is the full transcript of the “This Week” interview with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.

4chan founder ‘Moot’ bids farewell: ‘This is it for me.  This is goodbye’  —  Addressing more than 40,000 people, Christopher Poole, who is known as ‘Moot’, said he felt deeply proud of the community he had created  —  Christopher Poole, the founder of the anarchic image-board site 4chan …