Deans, faculty members call for Loftin's dismissal  —  The same day University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe announced his resignation, the deans of nine different MU colleges requested the dismissal of Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.  —  In a letter sent Monday to Wolfe and the UM Board of Curators …

Hillary Clinton rebukes charter schools  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sounded less like a decades-long supporter of charter schools over the weekend and more like a teachers union president when she argued that most of these schools “don't take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don't keep them.”

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

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 …

Appeals court keeps block on Obama immigration actions  —  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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Bush Allies Threaten Wave of Harsh Attacks on Rubio, an Ex-Mentee  —  The cash-rich group aiding Jeb Bush's White House run has filmed a provocative video casting his rival Marco Rubio as ultimately unelectable because of his hard-line stand against abortion.

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.

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.

Sen. Tom Cotton: Social Security benefits cause people to ‘spiral downward’ into heroin addiction  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested on Monday that population decline and drug abuse in poor areas could be the result of too many people on Social Security disability.

Meet The Mizzou Media Professor Who's Trying To Ban Media Coverage  —  After desperately trying to gin up media coverage of student protests at the University of Missouri, one of the school's media professors is now furiously trying to “muscle” the press off campus to prevent …