Billboard honoring KKK founder on display near Selma bridge on anniversary of historic march  —  WelKKKome to Selma!  —  Within sight of the bridge where President Obama will commemorate the 1965 Bloody Sunday march is a billboard set up by a group dedicated to honoring Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.

The Iowa Ag Summit: 10 takeaways  —  The GOP's top contenders try to thread the needle on farm policy, ethanol mandates.  —  The politics of ethanol have shifted enough over the last 15 years that several Republican presidential candidates felt comfortable - at an agricultural summit in Iowa Saturday …

Black Teen Tony Robinson Shot Dead by Cop in Madison, Wisconsin, Was Unarmed  —  The 19-year-old black man who was shot dead Friday during a confrontation with a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, was unarmed, police said Saturday.  —  He was identified as Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. …

Obama weighs in on Hillary Clinton's private emails  —  Shares -  —  President Obama only learned of Hillary Clinton's private email address use for official State Department business after a New York Times report, he told CBS News in an interview.  —  CBS News senior White House correspondent …

Rand Paul says same-sex marriage ‘offends’ him  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) (Washington Blade photo by Lee Whitman)  —  Potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul said on Friday affording the distinction to marriage to same-sex couples “offends myself and a lot of other people.”

Jeb Bush, Confronted by DREAMer, Compares Obama Orders to Decrees of ‘Latin American Dictator’  —  Jeb Bush joined the elite, uncomfortable club of possible 2016 presidential candidates confronted by immigration reform supporters who want legal recognition for the undocumented.

Cruz: Menendez probe politically motivated  —  Des Moines, Iowa — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) suggested Saturday that the Justice Department's criminal corruption charges against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) are political retribution against the New Jersey Democrat for opposing the White House's negotiations with Iran.

Nigeria's Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State  —  Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), according to an audio statement.  —  The message, which has not been verified, was posted on Boko Haram's Twitter account and is believed to be by the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau.

We were wrong to try to ban racism out of existence, says former equality chief  —  A former equality chief has branded his years working to stamp out racial discrimination as ‘utterly wrong’.  —  Writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips said efforts made under the Blair government turned anti-racism into an ‘ugly new doctrine’.