GOPer Wants Police Chief Who Released Duggar Offense Report To Be Fired  —  A Republican lawmaker on Saturday called for the termination of the police chief who released a 2006 offense report alleging that Josh Duggar, of TLC's “19 Kids and Counting,” molested five underage girls when he was a teenager.

Twitter Suspends Troll Chuck Johnson — Are Its New Guidelines Actually Working?  —  Notorious Twitter troll Chuck Johnson was placed in time-out Sunday — at least temporarily — and it looks like the company's new policy on violent threats was the reason.  —  Twitter suspended Johnson …

Charter Near Deal for Time Warner Cable at $195 a Share  —  Charter Communications Inc. is near an agreement to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $55.1 billion in cash and stock, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  Charter will pay about $195 a share, with $100 in cash …

SPECIAL REPORT U.S. MILITARY AND CIVILIANS ARE INCREASINGLY DIVIDED  —  Jovano Graves' parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.  —  But their son refused his parents' pleas to try college.

B.B. King's Daughters Allege He Was Poisoned  —  Two B.B. King heirs who've been most outspoken about the blues legend's care in his final days are accusing King's two closest aides of poisoning him, but the attorney for King's estate is calling the claims ridiculous.

The Big Meh  —  Remember Douglas Adams's 1979 novel “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”?  It began with some technology snark, dismissing Earth as a planet whose life-forms “are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

Islamic State crisis: Iraq will take back Ramadi ‘in days’ - PM Abadi  —  The Iraqi city of Ramadi could be taken back from Islamic State (IS) militants “in days”, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has told the BBC.  —  But he said more support was needed from international coalition partners.

Student vet with PTSD suspended, labeled ‘threat’ to peers after requesting to meet with non-Muslim counselor  — Jeremy Rawls, a former active-duty Marine and senior at Mississippi College was recently suspended and labeled a threat to himself and other students after requesting to meet with a non-Muslim counselor.

The 2016 political report: Walker emerges from Southern confab as GOP front-runner  —  OKLAHOMA CITY — The annual Southern Republican Leadership Conference provided a glimpse into the state of the Republican base and the presidential field.  —  The conference revealed a Republican base that is …

Art Garfunkel on Paul Simon: ‘I created a monster’  —  Forty-five years after Simon & Garfunkel split up, the singer is still consumed with bitterness  —  I hear Art Garfunkel before I see him, singing to himself as he drifts across the hotel lobby in a blue T-shirt, heading for the lifts.

Chart of the Day: America is More Liberal Than Politicians Think  —  Here's a fascinating tidbit of research.  A pair of grad students surveyed 2,000 state legislators and asked them what they thought their constituents believed on several hot button issues.

Cleveland Reaches Settlement With Justice Department Over Police Conduct  —  CLEVELAND — The city of Cleveland has reached a settlement with the Justice Department over what federal authorities said was a pattern of unconstitutional policing and excessive use of force, people briefed on the case said Monday.