Whisper Campaigns And “Zipper Problems”: How Jeb Bush's Allies Tried — And Failed — To Stop Marco Rubio  —  On the night of the 2010 midterm elections, a portly, silver-haired Jeb Bush stood on a stage in the courtyard of Miami's luxe Biltmore Hotel, appearing to choke back tears.

Cruz Condemns Colorado Shooting, Rejects Anti-Abortion Link … Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.  —  NEWTON, Iowa — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is condemning the fatal shooting of three people at a Planned Parenthood location in Colorado but also aggressively pushing …

Dear Basketball  —  PHOTOGRAPH BY WALTER IOOSS JR./THE PLAYERS' TRIBUNE … I knew one thing was real:  —  I fell in love with you.  —  A love so deep I gave you my all —  From my mind & body  —  To my spirit & soul.  —  As a six-year-old boy  —  Deeply in love with you

Monday Classes and Activities at Hyde Park Campus Canceled Due to Threat  —  To: University of Chicago Campus Community  —  The University was informed by FBI counterterrorism officials today (Sunday) that an unknown individual posted an online threat of gun violence against the University of Chicago …

Ex-US Intelligence Chief on Islamic State's Rise:  —  ‘We Were Too Dumb’  —  Interview Conducted By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark  —  Without the Iraq war, Islamic State wouldn't exist today, former US special forces chief Mike Flynn openly admits.  In an interview …

State sues prisoners to pay for their room, board  —  Melvin Moore is a paroled inmate being sued by the Illinois Department of Corrections to recoup the costs of incarceration. … The $31,690 Johnny Melton received to settle a lawsuit over his mother's death was going to help him start life anew after prison.

Addicted to Distraction  —  ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue.  I simply couldn't marshal the necessary focus.  —  I was horrified.

Northern Ireland law on abortion ruled ‘incompatible with human rights’  —  Belfast high court ruling could lead to women being allowed to have abortions in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, rape and incest  —  A high court judge, in a historic ruling, has found that Northern Ireland's almost outright ban …

Op-Ed Bill McKibben: What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth  —  Demonstrators make their way down Sixth Avenue in New York during the People's Climate March on Sept. 21, 2014.  —  Starting Monday, diplomats and scientists, activists and heads of state …

Hispanic Republican leaders shun Donald Trump  —  Prominent Hispanic Republicans are holding out hope that business mogul Donald Trump won't win the party's presidential nomination.  —  They are worried that his incendiary rhetoric on immigration will sour Latinos on the GOP and sink the party's chances of taking back the White House.

Clinton opened State Department office to dozens of corporate donors, Dem fundraisers  —  WASHINGTON - As secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton opened her office to dozens of influential Democratic party fundraisers, former Clinton administration and campaign loyalists …

Anti-ageing drug could let you live to 120 in good health  — Ageing - Health - Health & Wellbeing - Your Health  —  The world's first anti-ageing drug will be tested on humans next year in trials which could result in people being able to live healthily well into their 120s.