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 …

Wanted: a Tea Party Speaker  —  IN an earlier, cozier Washington, D.C., John Boehner could have been the kind of House speaker whose memory is held dear by high-minded chin strokers on Sunday morning television programs: An icon of sadly bygone bipartisanship, a cutter of the grandest bargains, a man who, by God, made legislation move.

2 Outside Reviews Say Cleveland Officer Acted Reasonably in Shooting Tamir Rice, 12  —  Two outside investigators looking into the death of Tamir Rice have concluded that a Cleveland police officer, Tim Loehmann, acted reasonably in deciding last year to shoot when he confronted …

Clinton's camp says she ‘could have a serious meltdown’  —  U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton  —  Hillary is furious — and while Clinton advisers think that may save her, it's making the lives of those who work for her hell.  —  “Hillary's been having screaming …

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.

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 …

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.

Time Celebrates 'How Che Guevara Didn't Let Asthma Affect His Ambitions'  —  Share it Tweet it  —  Jennifer Latson paid tribute to communist thug Che Guevara on the anniversary of his death in a gushing Friday item on Time magazine's website.  Latson marveled how the Argentinian radical …