New NBC News/Survey Monkey Poll: Donald Trump Still in the Lead After Debates  —  If Donald Trump's comments about Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly are hurting his standing in the Republican primary, it's not showing in the numbers.  —  According to the latest NBC News Online Poll conducted by SurveyMonkey …

‘Black Lives Matter’ and the G.O.P.  —  Only one candidate in last week's Republican presidential debate was asked to directly address the Black Lives Matter movement and that candidate was Gov. Scott Walker.  —  Moderator Megyn Kelly asked Walker:  —  “Governor Walker …

1 person shot during protests late Sunday in Ferguson  —  Updated at 3:10 a.m. with father identifying shooting victim.  —  FERGUSON  • A peaceful day of protest and remembrance dissolved into chaos late Sunday when a man fired multiple shots at four St. Louis County plainclothes detectives in an SUV.

Hero SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS maniac  —  A HERO SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son.  —  ALAMY  —  An SAS sniper took out the ISIS executioner just in time

Sam Brownback's brother accused of terrorizing rural neighbors  —  Joann Peine, social worker by profession and farm wife by marriage, ended a period of soul-searching by asking a Linn County District Court judge to issue protection orders for stalking against Jim Brownback and his stepdaughter.

Ex-NATO supreme commander rips Obama over military cuts  —  Former NATO Supreme Commander James Stavridis criticized President Obama, his former boss, for recent cuts to military spending while U.S. troops are still engaged on multiple fronts around the world.

Capitalists, Arise: We Need to Deal With Income Inequality  —  I'M scared.  The billionaire hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones is scared.  My friend Ken Langone, a founder of the Home Depot, is scared.  So are many other chief executives.  Not of Al Qaeda, or the vicious Islamic State …

U.S. consulate in Turkey targeted as wave of attacks kills eight  —  The U.S. consulate in Istanbul came under gunfire on Monday and at least eight people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankara launched a crackdown on Islamic State, Kurdish and far-left militants.

U.S.A., Land of Limitations?  —  YAMHILL, Ore. — We like to boast of America as the “land of opportunity,” and historically there is truth to that.  —  “We have never been a nation of haves and have-nots,” Senator Marco Rubio once declared.  “We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves …

More twists and turns in Hillary's email saga  —  On Friday, things began heating up again in the legal proceedings regarding Hillary Clinton's emails.  Readers will recall the Judge Emmet Sullivan, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., had ordered the State Department to ask Clinton …