Jeb Bush Allies Threaten Wave of Harsh Attacks on Marco 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.

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 …

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 undocumented 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 …

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

Reid rips Grassley over Clinton-Abedin probe  —  Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is demanding that Sen. Chuck Grassley drop his hold on dozens of State Department nominations, arguing the Iowa Republican is wasting money to try to bring down Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

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 …

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.”

Republican Candidates Push Bold Tax Plans  —  Proposed changes go well beyond the party's previous platforms and ensure the issue will play a central role in the general election  —  Republican presidential candidates are competing to propose dramatic changes to tax policy that go well beyond …

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

FBI steps up interviews in Clinton email probe  —  Even as Hillary Clinton tries to put questions about her private email server behind her, the FBI has stepped up inquiries into the security of the former Secretary of State's home-made email system, and how aides communicated over email, POLITICO has learned.

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.

Donald Trump: ‘Maybe we should boycott Starbucks’  — “If I become president, we're all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, I can tell you,” Trump told a crowd in Springfield, Illinois  —  Washington (CNN)Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump weighed in on the day's controversy on Monday …

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.

The New Intolerance of Student Activism  —  Professor Nicholas Christakis lives at Yale, where he presides over one of its undergraduate colleges.  His wife Erika, a lecturer in early childhood education, shares that duty.  They reside among students and are responsible for shaping residential life.