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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

‘Free-range’ flap fans the flames of a national debate on parenting  —  Montgomery County police said that a call came in to check on the children's welfare shortly before 5 p.m. (Montgomery County Police)  —  Long before the Meitivs of Silver Spring clashed with Montgomery County …

Hundreds Feared Dead After Boat Filled With Migrants Capsizes in Mediterranean  —  SIENA, Italy — Rescuers searched for survivors on Sunday after a boat with hundreds of migrants trying to reach Italy capsized in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya.  —  Twenty-eight survivors and 24 bodies …

McCaul, Chaffetz: Flying mailman exposed security crack  —  Two top House committee chairmen said on Sunday a rogue mailman who landed a small gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn last week exposed a security vulnerability that could help terrorists.  —  “It exposed a vulnerability that …