Republican Idiocy on Iran  —  After helping to ignite a firestorm over a possible nuclear agreement with Iran, Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, is now sort of acknowledging his error.  “Maybe that wasn't exactly the best way to do that,” he said on Fox News on Tuesday.

Kerry teaches Rubio the basics about the Middle East  —  At the recent CPAC gathering, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a likely Republican presidential candidate, seemed to stumble on one of the basic facts of the Middle East.  “The reason Obama hasn't put in place a military strategy to defeat ISIS …

Democrats See No Choice but Hillary Clinton in 2016  —  They shrug off questions about Hillary Rodham Clinton's email habits.  They roll with the attacks on her family's foundation, the big checks from foreign governments, the torpid response of her not-yet-campaign.

Hillary says ‘personal’ messages were deleted from email account  —  The political storm over Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account intensified Tuesday as she revealed that more than 30,000 “personal” messages have been erased from the server in her home.

Two police officers shot in Ferguson, Missouri, after chief quits  —  (Reuters) - Two police officers were shot during a protest outside Ferguson, Missouri, police headquarters early on Thursday, police said, just hours after the city's police chief quit following a damning U.S. Justice Department report into his force.

2 Officers Are Shot Amid Protests Outside Ferguson Police Station  —  FERGUSON, Mo. — Two police officers were shot here early Thursday morning as gunfire rang out in front of the police station, throwing into panic what had been a spirited — and at times tense — but largely peaceful night of protests.

Two officers shot, seriously injured outside Ferguson police department  —  Two police officers were seriously injured in a shooting early Thursday outside the Ferguson, Mo., police department amid new protests following the resignation of the town's embattled police chief.