Nudes Are Old News at Playboy  —  Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.  —  In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine …

Latest Unease on Right: Ryan Is Too Far Left  —  WASHINGTON — Far-right media figures, relatively small in number but potent in their influence, have embarked on a furious Internet expedition to cover Representative Paul D. Ryan in political silt.  —  In 2012 when Mitt Romney picked Mr. Ryan …

Bernie Sanders Isn't Socialist Enough for Many Socialists  —  The organized left is atwitter with talk of the Vermont senator's candidacy.  Much of it is negative.  —  How to define the political philosophy Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders?  —  On Meet the Press on Sunday …

Rift in Obama administration over Putin  —  <p>Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria is creating new rifts inside an exhausted and in some cases demoralized Obama national security team, where officials pushing for bolder action see the president as stubbornly unwilling to assume new risk …

Dan Rather's Big Lie hits the big screen  —  There are many things that real people do to become the subject of sympathetic movies.  Make a flawless emergency landing in the Hudson River with a disabled jet full of passengers.  Survive a devastating storm atop Mt. Everest.

Is the Jersey Devil in Galloway Township?  |  Paranormal Corner  —  Little Egg Harbor resident Dave Black captured this photo in Galloway.  He believes it may be the Jersey Devil.  What do you think?  (Photo provided by Dave Black)  —  For more than 200 years, people living …

Top Clinton aide worked on Abu Dhabi project while at State  —  Hilary Clinton's former chief of staff spent some of her time at the State Department working part time to build a campus for New York University (NYU) in Abu Dhabi.  —  Cheryl Mills disclosed the details of the special arrangement …

Hope fades on Obama's vow to bring troops home before presidency ends  —  In meeting after meeting this spring and summer, President Obama insisted that the last American troops in Afghanistan would return home by the end of his presidency, definitively ending the longest war in American history.

Amateurs in the Oval Office … The presidency, it's often said, is a job for which everyone arrives unprepared.  But just how unprepared is unprepared enough?  —  Political handicappers weigh presidential candidates' partisanship, ideology, money, endorsements, consultants, and, of course, experience.

AP Exclusive: Clinton server's software had hacking risk  —  1 photo  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton's home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers …

Obama: Those taking religion seriously are often suspicious of others  —  President Obama lamented the rancorous, divided state of U.S. politics in a wide-ranging interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson.  —  In the unusual discussion, Obama revealed …

Florida woman Periscopes while drunk driving  —  LAKELAND, FL - Lakeland police believe a local woman is lucky to be alive today after going on a drunk driving trip she recorded and broadcast live on her own phone.  On Saturday, LPD took in 911 calls about a possible drunk driver using …

A ‘Cancer’ on the Clinton Candidacy  —  <p>Halfway through her long and humbling summer, Hillary Clinton ran into an old friend who wanted to know how she was bearing up under the pressure of near-daily revelations about the use of her private email server during her time in the State Department.

Documents, former players point to Steve Sarkisian's alcohol use at Washington  —  Steve Sarkisian's strange behavior in the days surrounding high-pressure, high-profile college football games isn't unique to his time at USC.  —  Some regarded the coach's conduct, specifically the use of alcohol …