Ex-staffer: Benghazi committee pursuing ‘partisan investigation’ targeting Hillary Clinton  —  Major Bradley Podliska's exclusive TV interview with CNN will air Sunday at 9 a.m. on CNN's “State of the Union.”  —  Washington (CNN)A former investigator with the House Select Committee on Benghazi …

Why Ben Carson is right about Jews, the Holocaust and guns  —  Dr. Ben Carson recently asserted that if guns had not been confiscated from Jews then Hitler would have had more trouble orchestrating the Holocaust.  —  Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director of the Anti-Defamation Leauge …

BREAKING: California Will Automatically Register Millions Of Voters  —  On Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that will allow the state to automatically register millions of residents to vote, using their DMV records.  —  Starting in 2016, every eligible California citizen …

Clinton's support slides ahead of first Democratic debate  —  Reuters/Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton delivers remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 38th annual Awards Gala in Washington October 8, 2015.  REUTERS/Yuri ...more Gripas less

Jeremiah Wright: ‘Jesus was a Palestinian’  —  The controversial religious leader Jeremiah Wright compared Native Americans to Palestinians at the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March on the National Mall on Saturday, going so far as to assert that “Jesus was a Palestinian.”

Blasts kill scores at peace rally in Turkey in sign of worsening instability  —  BEIRUT — Two bomb blasts ripped through crowds at a rally of peace activists in the Turkish capital Saturday, killing scores, in a reminder of the growing conflicts Turkey faces both at home and across the border in war-torn Syria.

The Real Obama Doctrine  —  Henry Kissinger long ago recognized the problem: a talented vote-getter, surrounded by lawyers, who is overly risk-averse.  —  Even before becoming Richard Nixon's national security adviser, Henry Kissinger understood how hard it was to make foreign policy in Washington.

Armed Robbery Suspect Tries Using Uber as Getaway Car, Police Say  —  A 23-year-old man suspected of armed robbery tried to take an Uber car to help him get away after he held up a store outside Baltimore, police said.  —  The suspect, Dashawn Terrell Cochran, was at a store in Parkville …

Study: Democrats Moving Left Faster Than Republicans Moving Right  —  At least since the 2010 midterms, it's been a liberal talking point that Republican extremism is to blame for political polarization and gridlock.  In the old days, the argument goes, Republicans were a moderate party …

The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election  —  Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House.  —  They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women, and by black and brown voters.

Israeli air strike, bomb attack as Palestinian unrest widens  —  Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed a pregnant woman and her toddler, as a Palestinian woman set off a bomb in the West Bank Sunday in the first such attack in over a week of violence.