Hillary Clinton breaks silence on email controversy  —  She calls on the State Department to release her emails.  —  After two days of silence, Hillary Clinton weighed in on the controversy surrounding her use of a personal email address during her tenure as secretary of state late on Wednesday night …

Roberts will uphold ObamaCare  —  In this “friend of the court” column, I suggest with 90 percent confidence that Chief Justice John Roberts, who remained virtually silent during oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, will join a majority of justices to uphold the subsidy provision of the Affordable Care Act.

Release Detail  —  March 5, 2015 - Walker, Bush In Tight Race Among U.S. Republicans, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Clinton Sweeps Dem Field, With Biden In The Wings  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, with 18 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 16 percent …

Ringling Bros. Circus to give up elephant acts in 3 years  —  12 photos  —  POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively that growing public concern …

Kathleen Matthews likely to run for Van Hollen's seat  —  Kathleen Matthews, Marriott International's executive vice president and chief global communications and public affairs officer, and wife of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, is planning to run for the seat of Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).

Michael Brown's parents announce civil lawsuit in death  —  3 photos  —  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lawyers for the parents of an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson said Thursday that they would file a civil lawsuit in Michael Brown's death.

Knife-wielding attacker slashes face of U.S. ambassador in South Korea  —  (Reuters) - U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert underwent two-and-a-half hours of surgery after he was slashed in the face by a Korean nationalist in an attack at a breakfast forum in Seoul on Thursday to discuss Korean reunification.

Speculation over successor after Iran's Khamenei reportedly hospitalized in serious condition  —  Media blitz on Khamenei's health raises questions abo...  Khamenei on Twitter: No cure for barbaric Israeli reg...  Iran's Khamenei: 'Increasing global hatred of Israel ...

ONE LAST ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’ Q&A WITH MIKE SCHUR  —  ON HILLARY CLINTON, THE SWANSON BROTHERS, HARRIS WITTELS, AND MORE

Sheriffs sue Colorado over legal marijuana  —  DENVER — Sheriffs from Colorado and neighboring states Kansas and Nebraska say in a lawsuit to be filed Thursday that Colorado's marijuana law creates a “crisis of conscience” by pitting the state law against the Constitution and puts an economic burden on other states.