Poll: 68% of Trump's supporters would vote for him if he bolts the GOP  —  Donald Trump is defending his controversial plan regarding Muslim immigration.  The billionaire business mogul and Republican presidential front runner is facing backlash after calling for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

Reince Priebus condemns Trump on Muslim ban  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Tuesday condemned Donald Trump's proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.  —  “I don't agree,” Priebus said.

This Girl Whose Entire Family Got Killed In An Act Of Arson Just Wants Cards For Christmas  —  Safyre Terry of New York is asking people to help her make this Christmas a little more merry.  Normally, Christmas is a holiday associated with family, but for Safyre, that just isn't possible.

Potential Power Shift as Court Weighs ‘One Person One Vote’  —  WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide “what kind of democracy people wanted,” as Justice Stephen G. Breyer put it during an argument over the meaning of the constitutional principle of “one person one vote.”

First on CNN: San Bernardino shooter may have planned a 2012 attack, officials say  —  Sources: Farook planned another attack years ago  —  (CNN)Investigators believe San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook may have been plotting an earlier attack in California with someone else, two U.S. officials said.

Forsyth County first grader dragged nearly a mile by school bus  —  FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — A child was dragged by a school bus for nearly a mile in Forsyth County on Monday afternoon.  —  According to Highway Patrol, the incident was dispatched as a “child drug by school bus” at 3:43 p.m. Monday.

Donald Trump cancels Katie Couric interview  —  Donald Trump canceled a scheduled interview with Katie Couric on Tuesday amid the ongoing controversy over his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States, a Yahoo News spokesperson confirmed.  —  “He just abruptly canceled last night …

‘Spinning up as we speak’: Email shows Pentagon was ready to roll as Benghazi attack occurred  —  As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.

Andre Carson, one of 2 Muslims in Congress, attributes death threat to ‘toxic environment’  —  Rep. Andre Carson partly attributed a death threat he's received to politicians' ‘fanning the flames of bigotry.’  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Andre Carson, one of two Muslim members of Congress …

Biden Calls Trump's Comments on Muslims a ‘Dangerous Brew’  —  Vice president says Clinton sure winner if Trump GOP Nominee  —  Biden won't endorse in Democratic race before primaries  —  Vice President Joe Biden said Donald Trump's call to stop Muslims from coming to the U.S. is dangerous …

Exploring Fiber for Chicago and Los Angeles  —  Today, we're inviting Chicago and Los Angeles to explore bringing Google Fiber to their cities.  As we've explored bringing Fiber to other metros across the U.S., we've worked to refine our checklist and prepare for building our network in different places.

Hasta la Vista, Socialism!  —  We have chronicled the catastrophic collapse of socialism in Venezuela here and in many other posts.  Government control over the economy, beginning with liberal hero Hugo Chavez and continuing under his successor, Nicolás Maduro, resulted in poverty …

Douglas Tompkins, 72, North Face Founder, Dies in Kayaking Accident  —  Douglas Tompkins, a noted conservationist and the founder of the clothing brands North Face and Esprit, died Tuesday after a kayaking accident on General Carrera Lake in the Patagonia region of southern Chile.  He was 72.

Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius  —  Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor's Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody.

Inside The Sad, Strange Family Feud That Helped Sink Rand Paul  —  Among the many early obituaries for Rand Paul's presidential campaign that have lately littered the internet, one story has remained largely untold: the intensely personal father-son rivalry that helped derail the younger Paul's presidential ambitions — twice.

Is an immigration ban on Muslims unconstitutional?  —  Probably not.  The Supreme Court has held consistently, for more than a century, that constitutional protections that normally benefit Americans and people on American territory do not apply when Congress decides who to admit and who to exclude as immigrants or other entrants.

Severed pig's head left at N. Phila. mosque  —  Philadelphia police, the FBI, and the city's Human Relations Commission launched investigations Monday after a worker at a North Philadelphia mosque found a severed pig's head outside its door.  —  Surveillance video outside the Al Aqsa Islamic Society …