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.

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 …

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.”

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.

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

Bush, Carson Under Pressure Ahead of Critical Fourth Debate  —  The two candidates will be among the most closely watched as session gets underway in Milwaukee.  —  McCormickJohn  —  As he stood next to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in a high school gymnasium in suburban Milwaukee late Monday afternoon …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …