France train shooting crew left passengers to take terrorist down  — Train staff on board train which was the scene of a foiled terrorist attack accused of abandoning passengers  — A man named in reports as Ayoub el-Qahzzani opened fire on train which had more than 550 passengers on board

Jeb Bush Super PAC Sends Mailer To 86,000 Iowans With Jeb's Head On A Black Body  —  Jeb Bush has been lagging in the polls, trailing Donald Trump by a wide margin nationally and in early states.  —  Nevertheless, he's still considered one of the most likely eventual nominees by pundits and political experts.

Ellen Page Confronts Ted Cruz on Gay Rights at Iowa State Fair  —  While Sen. Ted Cruz was grilling pork chops at the Iowa State Fair today, actress Ellen Page, wearing a hat and sunglasses, snuck her way up to the grill and asked the GOP presidential candidate about “the persecution of gays in the workplace and LGBT rights.”

Maybe This Time Really Is Different  —  Historical context is a great asset.  But is history always an accurate guide?  Does past performance always give us the best predictor of future outcomes?  —  This election season provides a fascinating frame to see if the polarization in politics …

Read TIME's cover story and watch Trump's take on the Clintons, his opponents and how to change American politics  —  There are some things you just can't do in politics, not at the presidential level, anyway.  —  This is a game like any other, with rules honed over decades by the pros …

Why Conservatives Should Care About Ferguson  —  Last Saturday I made a first-ever visit to the down town Dallas Police Department to fill out a report.  I had never been to a police department before.  My only image of one was the police station I had seen on the television series Hill Street Blues.

Pennsylvania becomes fifth state to find no Planned Parenthood wrongdoing  —  Pennsylvania has found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood in the state after a review, according to a letter from the state health department.  —  That decision makes it the fifth state to announce that they have found …

Scott Walker: I don't have time for Black Lives Matter — let's talk about ‘things that matter’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Campaigning in New Hampshire, where he finds himself tied in the polls with also-rans Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker …

Hillary Clinton's Woes Pushing Joe Biden to Reach Out to Those Who Could Back a Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — As Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign struggles with sliding poll numbers, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s exploration of a presidential candidacy is taking on a new seriousness.

Inspector Clouseau was unavailable (4)  —  Omri Ceren emails an update over the IAEA side deal with Iran on Parchin.  I think that readers who have followed this important story so far will find this of interest as well.  Omri writes:  —  As was more or less inevitable …

Sasha Petraske, Bar Owner Who Changed Cocktail Culture, Dies at 42  —  Sasha Petraske, the founder of the influential New York cocktail bar Milk & Honey and many other polished drinking spots across the world, was found dead on Friday in Hudson, N.Y. He was 42 and had recently moved temporarily …

Mr. Trump's immigrant-bashing rhetoric breeds violence  —  DONALD TRUMP'S rapidly expanding catalogue of bombast is already a weighty tome, and it's a fool's errand to take each of his utterances seriously.  Still, his loathsome comment on Wednesday, in which he excused violence …