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 …

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.

‘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 …

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.

It's Not the First Time Donald Trump Has Flirted With a Third-Party Run  —  Over nearly two decades, Donald J. Trump has given more than a little thought to a third-party presidential candidacy.  How serious he is about it for 2016 is about to be tested.  —  Mr. Trump, who in early polls …

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 …

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.

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 …

G.O.P. Candidates and Obama's Failure to Fail  —  What did the men who would be president talk about during last week's prime-time Republican debate?  Well, there were 19 references to God, while the economy rated only 10 mentions.  Republicans in Congress have voted dozens of times to repeal …

CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS EXCLUSIVE: President Barack Obama on the P+5 Iran deal  —  CNN's FAREED ZAKARIA GPS features an interview with President Barack Obama who presses his case for support of the nuclear deal negotiated between the U.S., its allies, and Iran, for a global exclusive interview in the Map Room at the White House.