Top Clinton aide accused of receiving overpayments at State Department  —  State Department investigators concluded this year that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's closest aides, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules governing vacation and sick leave during her tenure as an official in the department.

The Iran hearings have shown how the Republican Party can no longer be trusted with the presidency.  —  If Republicans win the White House next year, they'll almost certainly control the entire federal government.  Many of them, running for president or aspiring to leadership roles in Congress …

BREAKING NEWS: Cecil the lion's brother Jericho shot dead by poachers in Zimbabwean park  —  Cecil the lion's brother Jericho has been shot dead in a park in Zimbabwe.  —  Johnny Rodrigues, Chairman for Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said in a statement: 'It is with great sadness and regret …

Small Pool of Rich Donors Dominates Election Giving  —  Fewer than four hundred families are responsible for almost half the money raised in the 2016 presidential campaign, a concentration of political donors that is unprecedented in the modern era.  —  The vast majority of the $388 million …

The FBI has subpoenaed lewd text messages between Subway's Jared Fogle and a former Subway franchisee  —  The FBI has subpoenaed an affidavit containing alleged texts between former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle and a former female Subway franchisee in which Fogle says he paid for sex with a 16-year-old girl …

Video of Lenexa PD arrest goes viral, sparks concerns  —  LENEXA, Kan. - A video that shows two Lenexa police officers making an arrest has gone viral and sparked concerns on social media.  —  John Sherman said he was at the Winstead's restaurant, located near 95th Street and Quivira …

What's happening to this heroic Navy officer from the Chattanooga shooting will make your blood BOIL  —  I never like to be reactionary and follow anything that may just be hyperbole or conspiracy theory.  That's why I held off on addressing this issue until I got confirmation — which came Friday afternoon via text message.

Joe Biden in 2016: What Would Beau Do?  —  WASHINGTON — A PATTERN of cutting corners, a patina of entitlement and inevitability, has led to this.  —  Destroying digital messages and thwarting official investigations while acting all innocent about wiping out sensitive material.

The College That Hates ‘Americans’  —  A University of New Hampshire speech guide explains why just about every adjective—including “American”—is somehow problematic.  —  The administrator who added a confusing, tin-eared Bias-Free Language Guide—a 4,500-word assault on the English language …

Obama Appointee And Bundler Blocks More Video Releases By Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting  —  A federal judge late Friday granted a temporary restraining order against the release of recordings made at an annual meeting of abortion providers.  The injunction is against the Center for Medical Progress …

Of Lions and Men: Mourning Samuel DuBose and Cecil the Lion  —  LIKE many others, I was stunned by the story of the Minnesota dentist who hunted and killed a 13-year-old lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe.  It was a brutal, senseless thing.  —  The story has gone viral because it offers a strange alchemy …

Exclusive: Donald Trump's companies have sought visas to import at least 1,100 workers  —  Donald Trump is staking his run for U.S. president in part on a vow to protect American jobs.  But this month, one of his companies, the elite Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Florida, applied …

Turns out Obamacare is a government takeover  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  During the legislative debate over the passage of President Obama's healthcare law, supporters of the program were sensitive to any suggestion that it represented a government takeover of the healthcare system.