Walker Shines in New Hampshire  —  Nashua, N.H.  —  Scott Walker was feeling it.  —  He'd been speaking for a little more than ten minutes, telling stories about his battles in Wisconsin to a crowd of Republicans nodding their heads in enthusiastic agreement.

Big Idea: California Is So Over  —  California's drought and how it's handled show just what kind of place the Golden State is becoming: feudal, super-affluent and with an impoverished interior.  —  California has met the future, and it really doesn't work.

Granny Get Your Gun  —  WASHINGTON — THE most famous woman on the planet has a confounding problem.  She can't figure out how to campaign as a woman.  —  In 2008, Hillary Clinton took advice from two men — Bill Clinton and Mark Penn — and campaigned like a man.

why I quit The Daily Show  —  Stewart's decision to retire as host of the satirical news show after 16 years has left liberal America in mourning.  So why is he leaving just before an election - and what will happen when he steps out from behind the desk?  —  here was no one moment …

Slaughter on the beach: ISIS behead and shoot Ethiopian Christians in sickening new propaganda video  — Video seems to show militants in Libya holding one group of at least 16 captive on a beach and 12 others in a desert  — Before the killings a masked fighter in black brandishes …

Checking Charlie Hebdo's Privilege  —  A LIVING cartoonist lecturing his murdered peers makes for a curious spectacle, but that's what transpired at journalism's George Polk Awards a week ago.  The lecturer was Garry Trudeau, of “Doonesbury” fame; his subject was the cartoonists for Charlie Hebdo …

Flag fracas at Valdosta State  —  Protesters walk on Stars and Stripes; veteran banned from university for taking flag from demonstrators  —  VALDOSTA — A military veteran was detained but not charged by Valdosta State University police after she approached a group of protesters on campus …

FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000  —  The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

Dan Aykroyd: ‘America Is Flat-Out Gun Crazy’  —  Dan Aykroyd has a history with law enforcement, including years of service on an auxiliary police committee in Harahan, Louisiana, and while he's “proficient with a firearm,” he told “The HuffPost Show” on Friday that officers need “more training in the less lethal alternatives.”

Reagan shooter Hinckley closer to permanent freedom  —  The last man to shoot an American president spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community.  —  He likes taking walks, plays guitar and paints, eats at Wendy's and drives around in a Toyota.

Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State  —  An Iraqi officer planned Islamic State's takeover in Syria and SPIEGEL has been given exclusive access to his papers.  They portray an organization that, while seemingly driven by religious fanaticism, is actually coldly calculating.  —  Aloof.