Famed ‘A Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash, wife killed in taxi crash, police say  —  File photo: Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash (right) and his wife Alicia sit on a coach inside their inside their home in 2009.  Nash, a senior research mathematician at Princeton University …

Driving Uber Mad  —  WASHINGTON — ON a reporting expedition to Los Angeles recently, I realized I could stop renting cars.  —  I would never again have to brave the L.A. freeway behind the wheel.  I would never have to obsess, like the characters in the “Saturday Night Live” skit …

Can Feingold come back from defeat?  —  By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel  —  For almost two decades, Russ Feingold had a winning image in Wisconsin politics — the liberal maverick.  He galvanized Democrats, won independents and made small but critical inroads among Republicans.

Las Vegas tycoon Sheldon Adelson to face graft accusations in US court  —  The owner of Sands casino fails in his attempt to have allegations of links to Chinese organised crime aired in Macau  —  A judge in Las Vegas has ruled that a lawsuit involving accusations of graft and organised crime ties …

The Making of a Great Ex-President  —  Though deeply engaged in his presidency — battling for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and against ISIS — Barack Obama is also casting an eye beyond Jan. 20, 2017, when his post-presidency begins.  We've learned that his presidential library will be in Chicago …

Iraq veteran's remarkable recovery 7 photos  —  Murphy served two tours in Iraq with the Army's 101st Airborne Division's 187th Infantry Regiment.  —  Hide Caption 2 of 7  —  Murphy patrols the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq, in an undated photo.  —  Hide Caption 3 of 7

'Don't let the secular progressives drive God out,' Carson tells GOP  —  GOP presidential contender Ben Carson on Saturday urged conservatives to remain resolute when government challenges their religious liberties.  —  “Don't let the secular progressives drive God out of our lives,” …

The Tolerant Jeweler Who Harbored an Impure Opinion of Same-Sex Marriage  —  I  —  n the American Conservative yesterday, Rod Dreher related the following story: … One could be forgiven for wondering how we are all supposed to keep up.  Last month, as Indiana's rather tame religious-freedom legislation …

No pay, no play!  Poor kids banned from school carnival  —  PS 120 in Queens held its fun-day carnival for students whose families could shell out $10 - but banished those of modest means to the auditorium.  —  No party for the poor.  —  PS 120 in Flushing held a carnival for its students on Thursday …

Secret Pentagon report reveals West saw ISIS as strategic asset  —  Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion’ … A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch …

WATCH: Virginia Cop Uses Pepper-Spray, Taser on Unresisting Black Man Having Stroke  —  He says he did nothing wrong.  —  Saying he did nothing wrong, a Virginia police officer resigned from the Fredricksburg Police Department after body-cam video showed him using his Taser, and then pepper-spray …