Sanders blasts ‘disastrous’ Obama trade deal  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) labeled a new trade deal finalized by the Obama administration on Monday as “disastrous,” and said he would work to defeat it.  —  Sanders, the Vermont senator leading Hillary Clinton in polls of the early-voting state …

Dems release closed-door Benghazi testimony  —  Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Monday revealed portions of the transcript of previously secret testimony from a closed-door briefing with a former top aide to Hillary Clinton in an escalation of the partisan bickering on the panel.

PissForEquality: Feminists Fall for Hoax Campaign, PEE on Themselves  —  Feminists have fallen for a hoax campaign that encourages them to pee on themselves in the name of equality.  They are using the hashtag #PissForEquality.  —  The troll hoax was created by 4chan.

The meteorology behind South Carolina's catastrophic, 1,000-year rainfall event  —  The rains are tapering off in South Carolina after a disastrous weekend that brought over two feet of rain and catastrophic flooding.  Dams have been breached, rivers are at record flood stage …

Boehner: House to Vote for Speaker Oct. 29, Other Jobs After  —  With House Republicans in disarray over their leadership, Speaker John Boehner on Monday scheduled the House election to replace him for Oct. 29 and delayed votes for lower-level posts until after that.

Donald Trump Sees a ‘Collapse’ in a G.O.P. Campaign Without Him  —  Donald J. Trump predicts a “major collapse” in the Republican campaign and a “depression” for the television industry should he prematurely exit the presidential race.  —  In a recent interview, Mr. Trump offered …

MSNBC to Undergo More Changes, NBC News Chief Andrew Lack Says  —  Senior TV Editor @bristei  —  NBCUniversal isn't finished tinkering with MSNBC.  —  While the cable-news network's daytime schedule has largely been reworked since February, there are likely more changes to come …

Sheriff: 5th grade boy kills 8-year-old neighbor with shotgun  —  (WBIR - WHITE PINE) The Jefferson County sheriff said that an 11-year-old boy shot and killed an 8-year-old girl who lived next door.  —  Authorities were called to Robin Road in White Pine around 7:30 p.m. Saturday on a report of a shooting.

White House: Obama Preparing More Executive Actions on Gun Control  —  The White House confirmed that President Obama was preparing a series of executive actions on gun control to match his recent passion on the issue after the latest mass shooting in Oregon.

Scandal Erupts in Unregulated World of Fantasy Sports  —  A major scandal is erupting in the multibillion-dollar industry of fantasy sports, the online and unregulated business in which players assemble their fantasy teams with real athletes.  On Monday, the two major fantasy companies …

In 1968 Robert F. Kennedy called for gun control, in Roseburg (video)  —  The Oregonian/OregonLive By The Oregonian/OregonLive  —  On May 27 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy stopped in Roseburg during his campaign swing through Oregon.  He stood on the steps of the Douglas County Courthouse …

First on CNN: Trump sent prank care package to Rubio  —  Atlanta (CNN)Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on Sen. Marco Rubio with a special delivery for his rival: “Trump Ice Natural Spring Water.”  —  Trump has previously trained his fire on Rubio, claiming he has the worst voting attendance record …

Two Edina elementary schools hire recess consultant  —  Two Edina elementary schools, worried about the politics of the playground, are taking an unusual step to police it: They have hired a recess consultant.  —  Some parents have welcomed the arrival of the firm Playworks …

Gov. Brown signs controversial assisted-suicide bill  —  Caught between conflicting moral arguments, Gov. Jerry Brown, a former Jesuit seminary student, on Monday signed a measure allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients who want to hasten their deaths.

Gun control and magical thinking  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  No television appearance elicits more angry comments from viewers than one in which the simple point is made that the “common sense gun control measures” (advocated petulantly by a president without …

Carly Fiorina's first political campaign had a surprising problem: Money … Famed California pollster Joe Shumate was found dead in his home one month before Election Day 2010, surrounded by sheets of polling data he labored over for the flailing Senate bid of Carly Fiorina.

‘We Are Apes:’ Abortionist Blasts Atheist Recording to Drown Out Christians' Pro-Life Pleas  —  NORFOLK, Va. — An abortionist in Virginia recently blasted an atheist message from his facility to drown out the Christians who were preaching the gospel outside and pleading with women not to kill their children.

Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes In on Two Engineers  —  Company investigation focuses on two men elevated after Winterkorn was made CEO  —  WOLFSBURG, Germany—Two top Volkswagen engineers who found they couldn't deliver as promised a clean diesel engine for the U.S. market …

Mother of Oregon Gunman Wrote of Keeping Firearms  —  ROSEBURG, Ore. — When a downstairs neighbor of Laurel Harper learned there was a gunman on the loose at Umpqua Community College here, he ran up to tell her, knowing that her son, Christopher Harper-Mercer, was a student there.

Multiple Firings After Racially Charged Facebook Remarks Mocking a Black Child Go Viral  —  A viral Facebook post made by a man named Gerod Roth and its accompanying racists comments, has resulted in multiple firings.  —  Gerod Roth, who went as Geris Hilton on Facebook …

Mike Huckabee: Mass shootings are ‘not so much a gun problem... we have a problem with sin’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee asserted on Monday that gun safety laws could not curb mass shootings because the real problem was “sin and evil.”

Air France Workers Rip Shirts From Top Managers in Jobs Protest  —  HR, long-haul executives escape over fence as meeting stormed  —  Air France executives were forced to flee with their clothes in tatters after workers stormed a meeting at Charles de Gaulle airport in protest at 2,900 planned job cuts.

Bloody Baltimore: No end seen to post-Freddie Gray spike in homicides, shootings  —  Baltimore's bloody summer ended with a barrage of bangs, as the rate of homicides and gun crimes continued to spike in the wake of the racially charged case of Freddie Gray, whose death in police custody left citizens angry and cops demoralized.

This Is What Voter ID Laws Looks Like When They Hit Real People  —  Wisconsin once again has to defend its voter ID law in federal court, this time responding to a challenge to the law's exclusion of veterans' IDs, technical college IDs, and out-of-state drivers' licenses.

Kasich's War on Ohio Minorities  —  Much like voter ID laws have little to nothing to do with voter fraud and everything to do with stopping black people from voting, so is the anti-welfare movement about stopping black and brown people from receiving government monies, while preserving it for whites when possible.

On Guns, Fear Is Winning  —  An exasperated — and frustrated — President Obama said of the gun massacre last week in Oregon:  —  “Somehow this has become routine.  The reporting is routine.  My response here at this podium ends up being routine.  The conversation in the aftermath of it.