Rudy Giuliani: My Bluntness Overshadowed My Message  —  Whether you agreed with me or not, I hope this can be the basis of a real conversation about national leadership.  —  There has been no shortage of news coverage—and criticism—regarding comments I made about President Obama at a political gathering last week in New York.

‘No Doubt’ President Obama Loves His Country, Says Sen. Lindsey Graham  —  Potential Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham has “no doubt” that President Obama loves his country, refuting comments made by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani earlier this week.

Ken Silverstein resigns from Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, blasts ‘dishonest’ leadership  —  Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein has resigned from First Look Media's The Intercept after 14 months, saying he and others were hired “under what were essentially false pretenses [by being] …

Jeb Bush's Brainless Trust  —  WASHINGTON — I had been keeping an open mind on Jeb Bush.  —  I mean, sure, as Florida governor, he helped his brother snatch the 2000 election.  And that led to two decade-long botched wars that cost tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.

Retired White Plains cop dead after killing two daughters, family dogs: officials  —  The high school in the small Westchester town shaken by a former police officer's murder of his two teenage daughters continued to come to grips with the unspeakable tragedy Sunday and was scheduled to open …

The milk of human kindness came before intelligence: Skulls of early humans show they developed compassion up to 3million years ago - before they could even speak  — Study suggests kindness and compassion came before intelligence, and may have helped early humans develop reasoning skills and speech

Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher  —  For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity.

Former CBS Correspondent Takes Apart Bill O'Reilly's Argentina Story  —  CNN's Brian Stelter spoke to former CBS correspondent Eric Engberg about his recent post questioning Bill O'Reilly's version of events on his reporting in Argentina.  Stelter asked Engberg at the end of the segment …

Straight Talk for White Men  —  SUPERMARKET shoppers are more likely to buy French wine when French music is playing, and to buy German wine when they hear German music.  That's true even though only 14 percent of shoppers say they noticed the music, a study finds.