This is an emotional time and we all need to think through these issues with a care that recognizes the need for change but also respects the complicated history of the Civil War.  The Confederate Battle Flag has wrongly been used for racist and other purposes in recent decades.

A Special Announcement From Bobby Jindal  —  My name is Bobby Jindal, and I am running for President of the United States of America.  There were three people I think you would agree my wife Supriya and I had to tell first. … Puppy  —  My daughter Selia cut to the chase: she wanted a puppy.

Anesthesiologist trashes sedated patient — and it ends up costing her  —  These audio clips are excerpts from conversations between a gastroenterologist, an anesthesiologist and a medical assistant during a colonoscopy.  This was entered as evidence in a lawsuit filed by the patient for defamation and medical malpractice.

Fox dumps Sarah Palin  —  Fox News will not renew its contract with Sarah Palin, whose bombastic appearances have been a cable staple since the former Alaska governor's failed run on John McCain's ticket in the 2008 presidential election cycle.  When asked for comment, a Fox News spokesperson confirmed …

Chilling letters from ‘The Watcher’ force NJ family to flee $1.3M dream home  —  WESTFIELD, N.J. - It was a million-dollar dream home for one New Jersey family, located in picturesque Westfield, New Jersey — until the letters started showing up.  —  The threatening notes were signed …

Obama Tosses Heckler From LGBT Event: 'You're In My House' … President Obama had a heckler tossed from a White House reception in celebration of LGBT pride month after the woman refused to stop interrupting the president.  —  “Listen, you're in my house,” Obama said, to the applause of the crowd …

Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave roots could be dropped from PBS after he is slammed by broadcaster for ‘breaching standards’  —  The Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave-owning ancestors has been condemned for breaching a broadcaster's standards and his future with PBS thrown into doubt.

Judge blocks federal fracking rule  —  A federal judge in Wyoming has temporarily blocked implementation of the Obama administration's regulations for hydraulic fracturing on federal land, hours before they were set to take effect.  —  The late Tuesday decision in the U.S. District Court …

Small Ohio Town Is Focus of FBI Probe After Strange Deaths and Disappearances … The FBI is now helping to investigate a string of disappearances and murders that have taken place in a small Ohio town over the past 13 months.  —  Six women have vanished in the town of Chillicothe since …

Supreme Court Guide: Six Big Decisions Remain  —  The Supreme Court is scheduled to issue decisions Thursday, with six major cases remaining on the docket, and is expected to release opinions again on Friday and perhaps next week.  Still to be decided are the health-law subsidies and gay-marriage cases …

The Controversy Over the Confederate Flag Has Reached Hazzard County  —  The studio behind the classic TV show won’t license any images of the General Lee with the Stars and Bars.  —  6.6k  —  Shares  —  6.2k  —  The studio behind The Dukes of Hazzard has become the latest corporate giant …

'I am sorry for the lives that I've taken': Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stuns court as he APOLOGIZES to his victims as he is sentenced to death  — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was today formally sentenced to death for the 2013 attacks in federal court in Boston

Lindsey Graham: Charleston Shooter Showed ‘Mideast Hate’ (VIDEO)  —  Republican presidential candidate and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday appeared to compare the white gunman who killed nine people last week at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina with Islamic radicals.

‘Gone with the Wind’ should go the way of the Confederate flag  —  If the Confederate flag is finally going to be consigned to museums as an ugly symbol of racism, what about the beloved film offering the most iconic glimpse of that flag in American culture?

Five Hostages  —  Families whose children were held captive in Syria felt that U.S. officials had abandoned them.  So they secretly joined forces. … BUY THE PRINT » … The five hostages, from left: Kayla Mueller, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, James Foley, and Theo Padnos.

Fox News guest: ‘Liberals created this kid that shot up this church’ (Updated)  —  Last week on CNN, a South Carolina lawmaker recklessly blamed “things like Fox News” for inspiring Dylann Roof to allegedly shoot up the Emanuel AME church in Charleston.  —  This morning, the wacky Charleston …

The man who sleeps in Hitler's bed  —  Kevin Wheatcroft has quietly amassed the world's largest collection of Nazi memorabilia.  Now he wants to share it with the world.  What is behind this dark obsession?  —  hen he was five years old, Kevin Wheatcroft received an unusual birthday present …