Fiorina: 'I'm distinctly horrifying to liberals'  —  <p>Carly Fiorina says she thinks she is "distinctly horrifying to liberals" because of the prospect that she could beat Hillary Clinton in a general election, hours after a poll was released showing her besting the Democratic front-runner …

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 …

Exclusive: Biden himself leaked word of his son's dying wish  —  <p>Joe Biden has been making his 2016 deliberations all about his late son since August.</p><p>Aug. 1, to be exact — the day renowned Hillary Clinton-critic Maureen Dowd published a column that marked a turning point …

Donald Trump vows to win: 'I'm not going anywhere'  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump forcefully rejected the idea Tuesday that he might be considering getting out of the race as his lead in the polls has contracted in recent weeks.  —  “I'm not going anywhere, I'm leading every poll …

Why Marco Rubio's Chances Are Rising  —  A lot has changed since April, when Marco Rubio announced his presidential bid.  Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was the top candidate of mainstream conservative activists and donors.  Jeb Bush seemed like a fund-raising juggernaut with natural appeal …

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Obama's trade deal faces stiff headwinds  —  The White House's announcement Monday of an international trade deal covering 40 percent of the world's economy sets the stage for a bruising, months-long congressional battle that is already spilling into the 2016 presidential race.

Oregon Killer's Mother Wrote of Troubled Son and Gun Rights  —  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.

Obama to visit Roseburg Friday  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will travel to Roseburg, Ore. on Friday to meet with the families of victims of the mass shooting at a community college there last week, White House officials said.  —  The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity …

Five Questions About the Bombing of a Hospital in Kunduz  —  On Saturday, at 2:08 A.M. local time, an American AC-130 began to bomb a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), in Kunduz, Afghanistan.  According to accounts from doctors and nurses …

U.S. Sees Russian Drive Against CIA-Backed Rebels in Syria  —  White House noncommittal about coming to aid of its allies  —  Tension builds as Russia targets CIA-backed rebels in Syria and violates Turkish airspace, drawing a rebuke from the U.S. State Department.  Mark Kelly reports.  —  By

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.

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.

Police in California Killed More Than 610 People Over 6 Years … The ACLU of Southern California has been working to understand how many people have been killed by law enforcement in America's most populous state.  What they found is alarming.  Over a six-year period that ended in 2014 …

Foreign governments ready cash grab on U.S. earnings  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Opposition to foreign taxes on American investment and hard work has been coded into our national DNA for almost 240 years.  Yet almost two and a half centuries after resolving …

Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity  —  ‘Being emotional is manly in my opinion’  —  The size of G.I. Joe's biceps and Arnold Schwarzenegger's guns in the Terminator movies is proof that the dominant form of masculinity is out of control.

Is Donald Trump right to call NAFTA a “disaster”?  —  Recently, Donald Trump made a strong claim about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in an interview on CBS 60 Minutes:  —  “It's a disaster. ...  We will either renegotiate it, or we will break it.  Because, you know, every agreement has an end. ...

Road rage suspect points gun at car, police let him go free  —  A motorcycle driver who was caught on camera pulling out a gun and pointing it at another driver Sunday was allowed to go free, and a witness wants to know why.  —  It happened on State Highway 54 in Coweta County near the Fayette County line.

NO COMMENTS ALLOWED ON REDDIT'S NEW NEWS SITE ‘UPVOTED’  —  Reddit's got problems.  It can be a hotbed of hostility and harassment—even for loyal users.  For the uninitiated, it's hard to understand, use, or even see the appeal.  And if you're an advertiser, nobody would blame you for staying away …

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.

Publisher Promises Revisions After Textbook Refers to African Slaves as ‘Workers’  —  Last week Coby Burren, a Houston teenager, was reading a textbook in his high school geography class when he came upon a map of the United States that caught his attention.

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 …