How the Missouri football team just took down its university president  —  For the past week, a graduate student at the University of Missouri has been on a hunger strike, hoping to force the school system's president to resign his position over a perceived failure to address racist incidents on campus.

My Ben Carson Days  —  I attended a three year high school from 1978 to 1981.  I took the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test ("PSAT") in tenth grade, and I checked off a box in the PSAT application inviting colleges to send me their literature.  I was contacted by the United States Military Academy …

SeaWorld to end theatrical killer whale show  —  SeaWorld intends to phase out its longstanding theatrical killer whale show at its San Diego park next year as part of a comprehensive strategy unveiled Monday to re-position the embattled company amid persistent criticisms of how it treats its orcas.

Despair, American Style  —  A couple of weeks ago President Obama mocked Republicans who are “down on America,” and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good Grumpy Cat impression.  He had a point: With job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s, with the percentage of Americans covered …

Jeb Bush On Whether He'd Kill Baby Hitler: ‘Hell Yeah, I Would!’  —  “You gotta step up, man.”

Clinton making gender a focus of her presidential bid  —  As the Democratic presidential candidates prepare for their second debate next weekend, a disputed moment of alleged sexism from the first exchange has come to symbolize a sharper and more personal confrontation between Hillary Rodham Clinton …

U-Va. fraternity files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone  —  The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine, which published an article in 2014 that alleged a freshman was gang raped at the house during a party.

Obama Tells Netanyahu Their Differences Must Be Narrowed  —  He says split is mostly on ‘narrow issue’ of the Iran deal  —  Netanyahu says shared goals will keep the alliance strong  —  President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that while their differences …

Sotomayor rips Supreme Court for letting cops get away with a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to violence  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  In a powerfully written dissent, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized the thinking of some of her fellow justices …

Only three states score higher than D+ in State Integrity Investigation; 11 flunk  —  Trouble in America's statehouses: secrecy, questionable ethics and conflicts of interest  —  In November 2014, Arkansas voters approved a ballot measure that, among other reforms, barred the state's elected officials from accepting lobbyists' gifts.

Yale Classmate: We Did The Prank Test That Ben Carson's Talking About  —  A former staff member of the Yale Record says that he recalls many of the details of a prank that Dr. Ben Carson wrote about in an autobiography.  —  The incident has been the subject of media coverage in recent days …

Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz's Father's Story of Fighting for Castro  —  MATANZAS, Cuba — Since he was a boy, Senator Ted Cruz has said, all he wanted to do was “fight for liberty” — a yearning that he says was first kindled when he heard his father's tales of fighting as a rebel leader …

Appeals court keeps block on Obama immigration  —  A federal appeals court has rejected President Barack Obama's effort to move forward with a series of executive actions he announced last year seeking to give quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants.

Vitter Addresses Prostitution Scandal  —  Sen. David Vitter addresses his past indiscretions with a prostitute in a new ad: “I failed my family.”  —  TwitterFacebookLinkedin

Here's Hillary Clinton's big 2016 challenge, in one chart  —  As many have already observed, one of the big questions that will help decide whether Hillary Clinton wins the White House next year is this: Can Clinton turn out the coalition that helped power Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 wins at the same levels that the president did?

Hugh Hewitt Tries To Explain Media Bias To Morning Joe  —  This morning there were some minor fireworks on Morning Joe, as Hugh Hewitt and Joe Scarborough duked it out over Ben Carson, Hillary Clinton and media bias in general.  —  Joe argues that there is simply no way that the press …