NRA-Backed Legislator: We Can't Take Syrian Refugees Because It's Too Easy For Them To Buy Guns  —  A Texas state legislator wants the U.S. to stop allowing Syrian refugees into the country.  His reasoning: They might be able to buy guns in his state.  —  Rep. Tony Dale (R) …

Russia Says Bomb Downed Plane in Egypt and Intensifies Attacks on ISIS  —  MOSCOW — Hours after confirming for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb brought down a Russian charter jet over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt more than two weeks ago, killing all 224 people aboard, Russia joined France in bombing Islamic State targets in Syria.

Charlie Sheen reveals he's HIV positive in TODAY Show exclusive  —  Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer.  —  “It's a hard three letters to absorb.  It's a turning point in one's life,” the 50-year-old actor said.

Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is...  That's right - for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph: , officially called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji, though you may know it by other names.  There were other strong contenders from a range of fields …

Trump: I'll ‘go to war’ with Cruz if he rises higher  —  Donald Trump said Monday he is capable of turning on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in their competition for the GOP's 2016 presidential nomination.  —  “If he catches on, I guess we'll have to go to war,” he told host Joe Kernen on CNBC's “Squawk Box.”

Why Al Gore won't endorse Hillary Clinton  —  At least four times in the past year, Al Gore has passed up opportunities to endorse Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, brushing off questions from People magazine and other media outlets with the admonition that it's still too early …

Sick taunts of the Paris mastermind: Jihadist boasts of freely crossing Europe's borders and mocks police who had him in their clutches  — ISIS jihadi Abdelhamid Abaaoud has shuttled between Syria and Europe, exploiting the migrant crisis on EU borders  — The mastermind …

Justice Antonin Scalia Questions Logic Behind Gay Rights Protections  —  The Supreme Court's decisions protecting gay rights were not rooted in the Constitution, and their logic could as easily apply to child molesters, Justice Antonin Scalia told a room filled with first-year law students at Georgetown University on Monday.

Marco Rubio Says GOP Rivals Tried to Weaken U.S. Intelligence Efforts … WASHINGTON-Days after the Paris terrorist attacks heightened homeland security concerns, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio leveled pointed charges Monday at a pair of Republican presidential rivals who backed efforts to overhaul U.S. bulk collection of phone records.

Clinton ‘often confused’ says staffer in email  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was “often confused,” according to a 2013 email from her longtime aide Huma Abedin.  —  The comment, which is likely to attract attention from Clinton's critics on the presidential campaign trail …

Sanders hesitates on socialism speech  —  Bernie Sanders' ballyhooed speech on socialism is now on indefinite hold.  —  Details about how Sanders would pay for his proposed single-payer national health insurance program to provide Medicare for all Americans have yet to be fleshed out …

CNN's Christiane Amanpour Gives Surprisingly Brutal Review of Obama's Islamic State Claims at G-20 Summit  —  CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, long criticized by conservatives claiming liberal bias, had surprisingly sharp words for President Barack Obama following his remarks …