Trump rises, Carson collapses in Post/ABC poll  —  Donald Trump has hit his highest level of support yet in a new Washington Post/ABC News poll of registered Republicans out Tuesday: 38 percent.  —  Despite the widespread blowback over Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. …

All LAUSD schools closed after bomb threat called in to board member, police say  —  All Los Angeles Unified School District campuses were closed Tuesday morning after a bomb threat was called in to a board member, police said.  —  It is unclear when the threat was made and to which school board member …

Trump Campaign Rally Erupts In Chaos And Ugly Confrontation  —  LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump's campaign rally had only been underway for a few minutes Monday night when the first angry eruption occurred.  —  The Republican frontrunner had invited a supporter up to the stage to recount how his son was killed by an undocumented immigrant.

Disgruntled Guest Rams Truck Into Oklahoma Hotel Desk, Just Missing Two Women  —  Stunning video released Monday shows an angry man ramming his pickup truck through the lobby and into the front desk of an Oklahoma hotel as two women dive for safety at the last second.

First Truth, Now Chappaquiddick  —  Some time ago-several decades, actually-a group of us at my law firm formed a Chappaquiddick Book Club.  We read three or four books on the fatal car accident that should have ended Ted Kennedy's public career.  The facts are much worse than most people realize …

The Cruz Imposture  —  The Texas senator's foreign policy is closer to Obama's than he lets on.  —  Not everything in Ted Cruz's foreign policy speech on Thursday at the Heritage Foundation was awful.  There was enough intellectual heft in there to suggest that the senator from Texas …

In Defense of Philanthrocapitalism  —  When Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, announced that he would be donating ninety-nine per cent of his Facebook stock to a new nonprofit organization, he got his share of positive headlines.  But the move was also dismissed as a tax-avoidance scheme …

Multiculturalism is a sham, says Angela Merkel  —  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy has attracted praise from all over the world.  Time magazine and the Financial Times newspaper recently named her Person of the Year, and delegates applauded her for so long at her party's convention on Monday that she had to stop them.

Inside the 2016 black market for donor emails  —  Scott Walker has begun selling access to his email list to pay off his leftover presidential debt, renting out the email addresses of hundreds of thousands of supporters to former rivals, including Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.

Terrorism Fears Drag Down Obama's Support in New Poll  —  The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., have vaulted terrorism and national security to become the American public's top concern, and they've helped drive President Barack Obama's job rating to 43 percent …

State Department sued over refugee plan  —  A conservative legal watchdog is suing the State Department to obtain documents about its work with aid organizations to resettle refugees in the United States.  —  Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit, months after failing to obtain the records through a Freedom of Information Act request.

On ‘Princess Bride’ Portrayals, Mandy Patinkin Thinks Ted Cruz Doesn't Get It  —  In recent days, the actor Mandy Patinkin, who played the master swordsman Inigo Montoya in the classic 1987 film “The Princess Bride,” has received emails from friends alerting him to pictures on the Internet …

Liberal Hispanic activists assail Rubio, Cruz as ‘traitors’ to their culture  —  Liberal Hispanic groups have launched a new campaign designed to turn Latino voters against the two Cuban-American Republicans who have risen to the top tier of the GOP presidential field …

Syrian refugees in Norway had execution images on mobile phones  —  Hundreds of asylum-seekers entering Norway were discovered to have images of ‘executions’ and ‘severed heads’ on their mobile phones.  —  The revelation comes amid heightened fears that ISIS is exploiting the migrant crisis …

Judge acquits Chicago police commander of abuse charge despite DNA evidence  —  Glenn Evans, one of the Chicago Police Department's 22 district commanders, is accused of chasing a suspect, Rickey Williams, into a building, shoving the barrel of his service weapon “deep down” his throat …

Leading a Nation Takes Years Off Life, Study Suggests  —  New research may offer a consolation prize for whichever presidential nominee comes up short next November: Losing could mean a longer life.  —  Whether heads of government die prematurely is a long-debated question, and research has yielded conflicting results.

Missouri Bill Would Strip Scholarships If Athletes Strike  —  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A state legislator is proposing that student athletes should lose their scholarships if they go on strike, a response to a threat by University of Missouri football players not to play over criticism …

EPA's water-rule blitz was ‘covert propaganda,’ GAO says  —  The EPA broke the law with its social media campaign promoting a controversial Obama administration water rule that has drawn fierce resistance from farming, development, oil and other industries, government watchdogs said Monday.

Chicago Teachers Union votes to back strike  —  Sign-up for Chicago Sun-Times newsletters. … Nearly every one of the thousands of Chicago teachers who cast ballots last week to determine whether they could go on strike voted to do so, blowing past a 75 percent approval mandated by the state.