Ted Cruz to announce presidential bid Monday  —  Senator will be first declared GOP candidate  —  Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce Monday that he will run for president of the United States, accelerating his already rapid three-year rise from a tea party insurgent in Texas into a divisive political force in Washington.

Israel: Beware of Obama  —  First he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, slashes the military, throws open the borders, doubles the debt and nationalizes the Internet.

Elizabeth Warren, run for the White House  —  Why Senator Warren should campaign to be president  —  LESS THAN three years into her Senate term, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has established herself as the country's leading advocate for working and middle-class families.

In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas  —  KATHERINE BYRON, a senior at Brown University and a member of its Sexual Assault Task Force, considers it her duty to make Brown a safe place for rape victims, free from anything that might prompt memories of trauma.

Islamic State calls on backers to kill 100 U.S. military personnel  —  (Reuters) - Islamic State has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its “brothers residing in America” to kill them.

Chris Wallace Grills CIA Head: Why Won't You Call ISIS ‘Islamic Extremists’?  —  For months now, the Obama administration has made it very clear that they have no intention of referring to ISIS as “Islamic extremists.”  President Obama has rejected that label, and so has CIA Director John Brennan.

Dems want to empower Boehner  —  House Democrats fighting for leverage in the GOP Congress are hoping they can empower an unlikely ally: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).  —  Democrats are outnumbered by more than 50 members - and have almost no power to bring bills to the floor.