Senate smackdown: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee efforts squelched by leaders  —  The rift between Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz widens.  —  Ted Cruz arrives for the Sunday Senate session on Capitol Hill.  Ted Cruz just wanted a roll call vote on Sunday.  Instead, he got a smackdown.

'I'm No Longer Afraid': 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn't Listen … More has changed in the past few years for women who allege rape than in all the decades since the women's movement began.  Consider the evidence of October 2014 …

Bobbi Kristina Dead — Whitney Houston's Daughter Dies at 22  —  Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's daughter Bobbi Kristina has died at the age of 22.  —  She passed away outside Atlanta in the hospice care facility where she's been since June 24 ... when her family decided to take her off all meds.

Chief Keef's hologram concert shut down by police in Hammond  —  Rapper Chief Keef appeared — via hologram — at a Hammond music festival Saturday night, but his performance was shut down by police within minutes.  —  The concert, planned as a benefit for a toddler and a friend of the rapper's …

Hillary Clinton Outlines Climate Change Proposals  —  Hillary Clinton on Sunday set two “bold national goals” to combat climate change, promising that if she's elected president, she would set the United States on a path toward producing enough clean renewable to power every home in America within a decade.

Turkey and U.S. Agree on Plan to Clear ISIS From Strip of Syria's North  —  BAGHDAD — Turkey and the United States have agreed in general terms on a plan that envisions American warplanes, Syrian insurgents and Turkish forces working together to sweep Islamic State militants from a 60-mile-long strip …

Two weeks to go: Republicans scramble to make debate stage  —  The race is on for the final spots on stage for the first Republican debate.  —  With the highly-anticipated showdown less than two weeks away, candidates with low polling numbers are in a high-stakes scramble to qualify …

Reince Priebus: GOP candidates should pledge not to make third-party bids  —  Republican candidates for president should pledge not to run as a third-party candidate, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Monday.  —  The remarks come days after current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump hinted …

The television election  —  Despite all the hype about tools like Snapchat and Meerkat, the 2016 campaign will be dominated by a technology that's been around for decades: TV.  —  Getty  —  This was supposed to be the presidential campaign that ends the dominance of TV ads — the snapchat election, the livestreaming election.

Lawmakers Say Iran Unlikely to Address Suspicions of Secret Weapons Program  —  U.S. administration says full disclosure about program's history isn't critical to verify future commitments  —  An Obama administration assessment of the Iran nuclear deal provided to Congress has led a number …

Huckabee: Obama marching Israelis ‘to the door of the oven’  —  Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential hopeful calls Iran deal ‘idiotic’ and slams Obama's foreign policy as ‘the most feckless in American history.’  —  Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee …