The Orwellian Obama Presidency  —  Under Mr. Obama, friends are enemies, denial is wisdom, capitulation is victory.  —  The humiliating denouement to America's involvement in Yemen came over the weekend, when U.S. Special Forces were forced to evacuate a base from which they had operated against the local branch of al Qaeda.

Report: Israel spied on Iran-U.S. talks and shared information with lawmakers  —  Israel obtained sensitive information about the nuclear talks between Iran and the United States and turned it over to members of Congress, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

Ted Cruz Cannot Be Serious  —  The big news of the day is that Senator Ted Cruz is officially running for president.  Not setting up an exploratory committee or any of that perfunctory foreplay, but actually running.  “It is a time for truth.  It is a time for liberty,” he said in a 30-minute speech at, yeah, Liberty University.

Cruz: I'm a natural born American  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Monday that despite being born in Canada he is still a natural born citizen by birth and qualified to run for president.  —  “I was born in Calgary.  My parents — as a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth …

Democrats cheer: Run, Ted, run  —  The launch of Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential bid Monday has prompted an outpouring of excitement and delight — from Democrats.  —  To liberal activists, the firebrand Texan is much too far to the right for the nation at large and too extreme to even win the Republican nomination.

No survivors expected after plane carrying 150 crashes in French Alps  —  DEVELOPING: No survivors are expected among the 150 people aboard a passenger plane that went down in the French Alps Tuesday morning, said the French president, who called the crash “a tragedy that has occurred on our land.”