The Disastrous Clinton Post-Presidency  —  The best-case scenario: They screwed everything up.  —  Shares  —  The qualities of an effective presidency do not seem to transfer onto a post-presidency.  Jimmy Carter was an ineffective president who became an exemplary post-president.

Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal … Fourteen months after unveiling a $45.2 billion merger that would create a new Internet and cable giant, Comcast Corp. is planning to walk away from its proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said.

Ted Cruz Is Guest of Two Gay Businessmen  —  Senator Ted Cruz has positioned himself as a strong opponent of same-sex marriage, urging pastors nationwide to preach in support of marriage as an institution between a man and a woman, which he said was “ordained by God.”

Native Actors Walk off Set of Adam Sandler Movie After Insults to Women, Elders  —  Approximately a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler's newest film production, The Ridiculous Six, on Wednesday.

Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch as Attorney General After Long Delay  —  WASHINGTON — After one of the nation's most protracted cabinet-level confirmation delays, the Senate Thursday approved Loretta E. Lynch to be attorney general.  She is the first African-American woman to hold the position.

Senate GOP Leaders Endorse Bill To Extend Obamacare Subsidies To 2017  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate's top five Republican leaders have cosponsored legislation to extend until 2017 the Obamacare insurance subsidies that may be struck down by the Supreme Court this summer.

Video shows DWI suspect knocked unconscious during arrest  —  ROUND ROCK, Texas — Video captured by a man inside the Wing Stop on East Palm Valley in Round Rock Tuesday afternoon shows Officer Ben Johnson arresting Viviana Keith.  —  The video shows Johnson and Keith talking …

Cameron to unveil plans for England-only income tax from 2016  —  PM's new manifesto set to underline Tories' determination to squeeze ‘weakening’ of Ukip voters' resolve in the south of England  —  David Cameron will place himself at the head of English nationalism by promising …

Boehner Opens Door to House Subpoena of Clinton's E-mail Server  —  In his ceremonial office in the Capitol building, the speaker flared with outrage at Clinton's conduct, asserting she broke the law by failing to use a government e-mail account as secretary of state.  —  t MarkHalperin

Not The Onion: China Cracks Down on Funeral Strippers  —  As the headline suggests, this is a real thing: Chinese families often hire strippers to dance graveside at funerals.  And now the Chinese government wants that to stop.  —  The Wall Street Journal's China Real Time blog reported Thursday …

U.S. drone strike killed al-Qaeda hostages, including American  —  This video showing Warren Weinstein, a U.S. contractor held by al-Qaeda militants, was released in 2013.  The full 13-minute video was sent anonymously by e-mail to several journalists who have reported from Afghanistan.  (As-Sahab/AFP)

World War O  —  Obama took office vowing to end America's wars.  Now we're in at least five, and U.S. officials are unsure what to do about it.  —  Getty  —  President Barack Obama's expression of remorse on Thursday for the death of two hostages in a U.S. drone strike underscored …

Steve King unveils radical court scheme  —  Under the American system of government, elected legislators are responsible for writing laws.  If those statutes are legally controversial, they're challenged in the courts and evaluated by judges.  It's Civics 101.

In fundraising, Jeb is on defense  —  Weekend confab comes as some Bush donors fear his funding edge is slipping.  —  This weekend in Miami Jeb Bush will huddle with a group of his top donors at a brand new “nature-centric,” $700-a-night South Beach hotel, replete with four pools …

Scott Lively: Only ‘Pitchforks And Torches’ Can Stop Gay Marriage  —  Anti-LGBT pundit Scott Lively argues in a column today that the only way to stop the legalization of gay marriage is to form an “angry mob” that will take to “the streets, pitchforks and torches held aloft …

Scientists find missing link in Yellowstone plumbing: This giant volcano is very much alive  —  Yellowstone National Park is the home of one of the world's largest volcanoes, one that is quiescent for the moment but is capable of erupting with catastrophic violence at a scale never before witnessed by human beings.