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.

No charges for Cleveland police officers in shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice  —  After more than a year of investigation, a Cleveland grand jury declined to bring charges against either of the two police officers involved in the November 2014 shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was playing with a toy weapon in a park.

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.

Bush challenges Trump to one-on-one debate  —  Jeb Bush on Monday challenged Republican front-runner Donald Trump to a one-on-one debate.  —  Speaking to a gathering at the Forum Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Bush was asked by the moderator what he would say to Trump if he were to walk in the room at that moment.

‘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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

State Dept. counts ‘bringing peace’ to Syria as a 2015 win  —  The State Department is counting “bringing peace” to Syria as one of its wins in 2015.  —  A boastful recap of the State Department's accomplishments, written by spokesman John Kirby, includes the bold subheadline of “Bringing Peace …

Public document complicates Christie's pro-life conversion story  —  The story of how Gov. Chris Christie converted from being pro-choice to pro-life 20 years ago is touching and deeply personal, and he tells it frequently at town hall meetings.  —  It goes like this: In 1995 …

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 …

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?

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 …

Puerto Rico police officer shoots and kills three fellow officers  —  An officer from the Puerto Rico Police Department is in custody after taking three fellow officers hostage, then fatally shooting them, officials said Monday.  —  The shooting, which took place in the police station in Ponce …

Sixty thousand New Yorkers sign up for ‘tiny house’ development: 265 square foot apartments with retractable beds attract huge wave of interest... but would you pay up to $3,000 a month for this?  —  More than 60,000 people have applied to live in new apartments the size of garages in Manhattan.

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 …