In Selma, GOP Lawmakers Explain Why They Don't Support John Lewis' Bill To Restore Voting Rights Act  —  Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) says hasn't read the bill to restore the Voting Rights Act.  —  CREDIT: Alice Ollstein  —  SELMA, ALABAMA — Dozens of members of Congress …

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 …

GOP struggles to get the votes  —  Just don't call him “The Hammer.”  —  Seven months on the job, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise's wobbly vote-counting operation looks nothing like that of one of his predecessors, Tom DeLay of Texas, whose iron grip on his caucus made him one of the most respected …

Huckabee: Clinton evokes ‘The Godfather’  —  Hillary Clinton continued to get hammered on Sunday for her decision to use a personal email service during her time leading the State Department  —  “There's a protocol that she didn't follow,” said former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee on “Fox News Sunday.”

Boko Haram Generates Uncertainty With Pledge of Allegiance to Islamic State  —  With thousands of fighters and some parts of northeastern Nigeria under its control, Boko Haram is believed to be the largest jihadi group to pledge fidelity to the Islamic State.

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 …

‘This Week’ Transcript: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell  —  Below is the rush transcript for “This Week” on March 8, 2015.  It may contain errors and will be updated.  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: We are going to turn now to the former Secretary of State General Colin Powell.  He joins us now from Washington.

American Flag Ban Vetoed by UC Irvine Campus Leaders  —  A University of California Irvine student executive cabinet on Saturday vetoed a resolution banning the American flag from the lobby of the student government offices, KNBC-TV reported, noting a post on the school's website.

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.

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’.

BREAKING: Teen dead after officer-involved shooting in Madison  —  UPDATE (WKOW) — Madison Police Chief Mike Koval says an officer shot and killed a 19-year old black man after a struggle in a home on Williamson St.  —  A large crowd gather at the scene of the shooting late Friday evening …