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 illegal immigrants.

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.”

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 …

How Much Will Obama Extract from Israel in His Last Year?  —  Much ink has been spilled blaming the state of U.S.-Israel relations on the poor personal rapport between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu.  The fact is that huggable Barney the Purple Dinosaur could have been Israel's elected leader …

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 …

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

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.

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.

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 …

For GOP Candidates, the Best Bet Is for Instability  —  Front-runners Donald Trump and Ben Carson defy party history, but establishment candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio may yet emerge  —  It may seem an odd thing to say on the verge of the fourth Republican presidential debate …

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.