Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson dies at 73  —  Fred Thompson, a former U.S. senator for Tennessee, GOP presidential candidate, Watergate attorney and longtime “Law and Order” star, has died.  —  Mr. Thompson, 73, died on Sunday from after a recurrence of lymphoma, according to a statement issued from the Thompson family.

It's Time For Jeb To Go  —  Until now, I have taken a benign view of Jeb Bush's presidential candidacy.  I have said from the beginning that he has zero chance of getting the Republican nomination, but he was a good governor and he has as much right to seek the nomination as anyone else.

GOP contenders demand greater control over crucial debates  —  Several Republican presidential campaigns began mapping out new demands Sunday for greater control over the format and content of primary debates, which have attracted big audiences and become strategically critical for the 2016 cycle's expansive field of contenders.

Hillary Clinton's rogue agenda: Why Sid Blumenthal matters  —  Hillary Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal Photo: (Left) ZumaPress, (right) EPA  —  After the media inexplicably dubbed Hillary Rodham Clinton the “winner” of the Benghazi hearings, her apologists dismissed a line of questioning into her unofficial adviser, Sidney Blumenthal.

Police: Customer with concealed carry license kills robber; 6 wounded in other shootings  —  A robbery was thwarted at a Southwest Side corner store Saturday night when a patron with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed robber, authorities said.

Read the letter that Ben Ginsberg drafted for the GOP summit  —  At the start of a meeting Sunday night between 12 of the 14 leading Republican presidential campaigns, GOP lawyer and dealmaker Ben Ginsberg distributed a draft of a letter that could be sent to any media sponsor.

The Democrats in Opposition  —  They can become the party of working Americans and win.  Or they can appease Wall Street and lose.  —  Where should the Democrats go now?  Losing both houses of Congress frees them to function as an opposition party, not just to the Republicans …

Girls must choose career or motherhood, says top head  —  Leading headteacher tells schoolgirls they need to choose between career or motherhood  —  Teachers must tell girls that they need to choose between their careers and motherhood instead of misleading them with the “lie” …

In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’  —  Deborah L. Pierce, an emergency room doctor in Philadelphia, was optimistic when she brought a sex discrimination claim against the medical group that had dismissed her.  Respected by colleagues, she said she had a stack …