Cruz made 2016 announcement speech without a teleprompter  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made his speech announcing that he would run for the presidency without the assistance of a teleprompter, his spokesman said Monday.  —  Cruz delivered his roughly half-hour announcement speech at evangelical Liberty University in Virginia.

Wisconsin Decides Not to Enforce Voter ID Law  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to a Wisconsin law that requires prospective voters to provide photo identification before casting their ballots.  —  Officials in Wisconsin said they would not enforce the law …

Netanyahu Apologizes; White House Is Unmoved  —  JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel apologized on Monday for making what were widely condemned as racist comments last week in saying that Arab citizens were voting in “droves.”  —  But even as he spoke with a group …

Dershowitz Rips Obama on Iran: Couldn't ‘Negotiate a One-month Lease’  —  Famed defense attorney and retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz ripped President Barack Obama in an address to a conference of pro-Israel activists in Los Angeles on Saturday evening.

An Interview With George Zimmerman - March 2015  —  In an interview conducted in Orlando by Howard Iken, George Zimmerman discusses his viewpoint on events now that the Justice Department has declined to file charges against him  —  Duplication without prior permission prohibited.

Argentine archaeologists find secret Nazi lair in jungle  —  Stone structures in the remote region of Misiones are thought to be the ruins of a hideout build by Nazis, in case their leaders needed to flee Germany  —  A team of Argentine archaeologists investigating a series of ruins in the jungle …

Could Liberal Disgust With Campus Brownshirts Be Reaching Critical Mass?  —  You know campus radicalism—the kind that openly oppresses in the name of ending oppression—is going too far when even The Nation magazine takes notice.  Nation writer Michelle Goldberg reports about the case …

In Clinton Emails on Benghazi, a Rare Glimpse at Her Concerns  —  WASHINGTON — It was a grueling hearing.  A month after the September 2012 attack on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, House Republicans grilled a top State Department official about security lapses at the outpost.

Oil Giant BP Drops Membership With ALEC  —  The oil-and-gas super company is just the latest big firm to leave the conservative group in recent months.  —  Major oil-and-gas corporation BP announced Monday it is parting ways with the American Legislative Exchange Council, marking just the latest …

Here are the first lawsuits to challenge the FCC's net neutrality rules  —  An industry trade group and a small, Texas-based Internet provider are among the first to mount a legal challenge to the federal government's new net neutrality rules.  —  On Monday, USTelecom …

Don't You Forget About Me: The John Hughes I Knew  —  To mark the 30th anniversary of The Breakfast Club, P.J. O'Rourke remembers the wit, wisdom, and politics of his friend John Hughes.  —  Somehow—while we Senior Teens in our forties, fifties and sixties weren't paying attention …

Journalists have to decide what to do about candidates who are climate change denialists  —  Claims that climate science is a hoax, that human action is not a factor: these are not defensible positions in a normal debate.  They are ways of saying — and saying to the press — hey, the evidence doesn't matter.

Britain's Terrible, No-Good Economic Discourse  —  The 2016 election is still 19 mind-numbing, soul-killing months away.  There is, however, another important election in just six weeks, as Britain goes to the polls.  And many of the same issues are on the table.

Last Slide  —  Controversial religious freedom legislation that could protect business owners who don't want to provide services for same-sex couples is poised to become law in Indiana.  —  The Republican-controlled Indiana House approved the measure this afternoon on a 63-31 vote, largely along party lines.

Any Republicans who vote against higher defense spending should be fired  —  Let's talk a bit about which House Republican incumbents are going to draw primary opponents in 2016.  Make a note: Those GOP representatives who vote against upping Pentagon spending this week are at the top of a list …

Charlottesville police find no evidence in U-Va. sexual assault case  —  Police say that an investigation has found no evidence to support a discredited Rolling Stone story about a gang rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house on the campus of the University of Virginia.  (Reuters)