Marco Rubio, absentee senator  —  The Florida senator leads the 2016 pack — in playing hooky from his day job to campaign.  —  At last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Marco Rubio attacked the Obama administration for failing to secure the release of American hostages in Iran.

'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.

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 …

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 …

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.

2 Stabbed, 1 Fatally, At Frederick Co. Prayer Counseling Center  —  FREDERICK, Md. (WJZ)—Authorities in Frederick County are investigating after a man was stabbed to death at a prayer counseling center on Sunday night.  —  The Frederick County Sheriff's Office described a gruesome scene …

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 …

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.

New California: Mass Immigration Turning Virginia Blue  —  A remarkable transformation is underway in the Commonwealth of Virginia.  —  The birthplace and final resting place of George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson—and once one of the most reliably-red of red states …