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.

Sources: Grand jury indicts Attorney General Ken Paxton  —  McKINNEY — A grand jury has indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on multiple felony charges, according to several sources who are familiar with the complaints.  —  The charges will be unsealed in McKinney on Monday about noon …

Jericho, Cecil the lion's brother, killed  —  The brother of Cecil the lion, whose death sparked widespread outrage this week, was killed by a hunter Saturday afternoon in Zimbabwe, a local conservation group said.  —  “I'm very disappointed.  I'm heartbroken,” Zimbabwe Conservation Task …

Assailant in Garland, Texas, attack bought gun in 2010 under Fast and Furious operation  —  Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, Nadir Soofi walked into a suburban Phoenix gun shop to buy a 9-millimeter pistol.

Texas Already Defunded Planned Parenthood — Here's What Congress Can Learn From It  —  As Congress seeks to end all taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, lawmakers and health care professionals in the state of Texas, who took similar action in recent years, have some advice on how to make that transition …

The Unbearable Nuttiness of Mike Huckabee  —  Oh go home, you old fundamentalist fool, before you embarrass the Republicans any more.  —  “Playing the Hitler card” is an infallible sign that a politician has run out of intelligent, substantive and plausible ways to criticize an opponent.

Clinton aide and confidante was overpaid at State Dept.  —  State Department investigators have concluded that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 while working at the State Department, the Washington Post reports.

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 …

Christie: Elizabeth Warren is ‘taking over’ Democratic Party  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie believes Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is dominating her party's political message.  —  Christie argued Friday that Warren is overshadowing other Democrats with her progressive rhetoric during a town hall in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

South Florida woman first to receive bionic eye in Florida  —  Carmen Torres diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at 18 years old … MIAMI -  —  Growing up, Carmen Torres didn't think much about her vision until the age of 18, when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition in which vision gradually declines over time.