Paul Singer, Influential Billionaire, Throws Support to Marco Rubio for President  —  One of the wealthiest and most influential Republican donors in the country is throwing his support to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a decision that could swing millions of dollars in contributions behind …

Rules of Next Republican Debate Are Unveiled  —  Republican presidential candidates will not give opening statements at the next debate, hosted by the Fox Business Network, but they will have more time to respond to questions — 90 seconds in their initial answer, and a 60-second rebuttal …

White House Aims to Stop Release of Obama-Clinton Emails  —  WASHINGTON — The White House will try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, citing longstanding precedent invoked by presidents of both parties …

Obama to Boehner: 'Man, I'm gonna miss you'  —  President Barack Obama placed a call to John Boehner on his penultimate day as Speaker, telling the Ohio Republican he was sorry to see him go.  —  “He said, 'Boehner, man, I'm gonna miss you,' ” Boehner recalled in an interview broadcast Friday on Fox News.

Black Lives Matter protesters interrupt Hillary rally  —  Protesters with the Black Lives Matters movement interrupted a Hillary Clinton rally in Atlanta on Friday, where she planned to unveil her criminal justice reform plan.  —  Members of the civil rights group in the crowd chanted …

Chief Operating Officer Leaves Jeb Bush Campaign  —  The highest-ranking official known to lose her job in Jeb Bush's flagging campaign is Christine Ciccone, the campaign's chief operating officer.  —  News of Ms. Ciccone's departure comes a week after the Bush campaign announced a re-organization …

America's Most Dangerous Political Taboo  —  Political taboos, campaign dealbreakers and electoral glass ceilings are crumbling.  Members of Congress are openly gay and bisexual, there's a black man in the White House, and a woman may be next.  Voters have accepted all sorts of behavioral warts …

The Commerce Department's GDP numbers don't make any sense  —  Marijuana must be legal in Washington because the folks at the Commerce Department have to be smoking a lot of it.  —  Commerce announced on Thursday that the nation's third-quarter gross domestic product expanded by just a 1.5 percent annual rate.

6 injured in chemistry classroom fire at Woodson High in Fairfax  —  A chemistry demonstration at a Fairfax County high school went out of control Friday morning, with a flash of flame engulfing a group of students, leaving two with serious burns and also sending three others to the hospital.

Former Congressman: I'm Quitting GOP  —  In a panel discussion at the University of Colorado after the recent Republican debate, I was asked by a student why she should be a Republican.  The question forced me to ask myself the same thing.  —  I gave the young woman the standard talking points …

Obama to Send Special Operations Forces to Syria to Help Fight ISIS  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will deploy a small number of American Special Operations forces to Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Syria, a United States official said.  —  The White House is expected to make the announcement on Friday, the official said.

WUSA9: Lottery clerks selling themselves winning tickets … WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - A man who sold himself a $1,000,000 winning D.C. Lottery ticket is just one of many retailers a WUSA9 investigation found winning the lottery at rates statisticians say border on impossible.

Fatal collapse at NYC building  —  One person was killed and another seriously injured when a ceiling collapsed Friday in a building under renovation at West 38th Street, sources said.  —  The injured person was trapped in the rubble at 25 W. 38th Street, sources said.