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 …

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 …

Lindenhurst family receives racially charged letter in mailbox, told to leave town … LINDENHURST, N.Y. (PIX11)- Suffolk County police are investigating a possible hate crime targeting an African-American family in Lindenhurst.  —  Ronica Copes, a resident of the suburban neighborhood …

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 …

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.

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 …

GOP turns to Tea Party to win trade powers for Obama  —  House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and GOP leaders have turned to some unlikely allies to rally support for a key trade bill: Tea-Party conservatives, including some prominent names from the raucous House Freedom Caucus.

Afghans Form Militias and Call on Warlords to Fight Taliban  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Facing a fierce Taliban offensive across a corridor of northern Afghanistan, the government in Kabul is turning to a strategy fraught with risk: forming local militias and beseeching old warlords for military assistance …

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

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 …