Clinton Most Admired Woman for Record 20th Time  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Americans again name Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama the woman and man living anywhere in the world they admire most.  Both win by wide margins over the next-closest finishers, Malala Yousafzai for women and Pope Francis and Donald Trump for men.

Ben Carson on the brink: ‘A process like this is pretty brutal’  —  Two days before Christmas, with his presidential campaign fading fast, Ben Carson sought to take control at his manse in the countryside west of Baltimore.  —  A video crew was in the front living room preparing to film a campaign ad.

Meadowlark Lemon, Harlem Globetrotters' Dazzling Court Jester, Dies at 83  —  Meadowlark Lemon, whose halfcourt hook shots, no-look behind-the-back passes and vivid clowning were marquee features of the feel-good traveling basketball show known as the Harlem Globetrotters for nearly a quarter-century …

Disappearing Presidential Candidates  —  Hey, remember Scott Walker?  That corn-fed, Kohls-shopping, union-busting, unintimidated governor of a blue state who had a real shot at next July's nominating convention?  —  He's probably sitting in his Madison, Wisconsin, office right now reading …

‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Samuel L. Jackson ('The Hateful Eight')  —  The 67-year-old, whose films have grossed more than any other actor's in history, opens up about reuniting with Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee, Oscars “bulls**t,” his stutter, the N-word, cops and the “hate” of his golfing buddy Donald Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: Queens student claims cops wrongfully arrested, beat him for walking dog without leash  —  A 25-year-old college student says he was wrongfully arrested and beaten by Queens cops for walking his puppy outside his home without a leash.  —  Nicholson Gregoire stepped outside …

THIS WEEK'S COVER: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH CASTS A SPELL AS DOCTOR STRANGE IN EW'S FIRST LOOK ISSUE  —  This week's First Look issue of Entertainment Weekly offers a very early peek at Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel's new superhero film, Doctor Strange (out Nov. 4).  How early?

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Officers in Tamir Rice Case, Prosecutor Says  —  An Ohio Grand Jury has declined to indict two police officers in the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot dead by a Cleveland police officer last year, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty said today.

Step inside the mansion built for Jesus' return  —  Even Jesus has been priced out of Manhattan.  —  In Riverdale, The Bronx, on the second highest peak in all five boroughs, sits a mansion fit for a king — and we don't mean LeBron James.  —  The house, variously known as Chapel Farm …

191 million voters' personal info exposed by misconfigured database  —  A misconfigured database leaking the personal information of over 191 million voters was reported to DataBreaches.net by researcher Chris Vickery.  This report includes some of the results of an investigation by Vickery …

Special Report: Pentagon thwarts Obama's effort to close Guantanamo  —  In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country.  If they succeeded …

Don't Let Hillary Draft Your Daughter  —  For over 40 years, Hillary Clinton has been pushing to put women in combat and now she's close to succeeding—whether women like it or not.  —  Your daughter or granddaughter could soon be compelled to register with the Selective Service at the age of 18 alongside all American males.

The terrorists and demagogues want us to be scared.  We mustn't give in  —  It's not easy to resist the threats and the hysteria that surround us, but we must do, as fear is the greatest danger to open society  —  pen societies are always endangered.  This is especially true of America …

Huckabee: I Never Defended Or Supported Josh Duggar  —  Huckabee in May: “Josh's actions when he was an underage teen are as he described them himself, ‘inexcusable,’ but that doesn't mean ‘unforgivable.’”  —  Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee …

Go Live Elsewhere, We're Cutting Carbon Here  —  The Newhall Ranch project near Los Angeles is green but not green enough for the antidevelopment crowd.  —  Earlier this month California Gov. Jerry Brown promised to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.