El Chapo Speaks  —  A secret visit with the most wanted man in the world … It's September 28th, 2015.  My head is swimming, labeling TracPhones (burners), one per contact, one per day, destroy, burn, buy, balancing levels of encryption, mirroring through Blackphones, anonymous e-mail addresses …

Poll: Neck-And-Neck 2016 Races in Iowa, New Hampshire  —  Three weeks until the first presidential nominating contest, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are running neck and neck in Iowa, while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are also locked in a tight race in the Hawkeye State.

Economist: GOP may win 47 states in general election  —  Supply-side economist Arthur Laffer is predicting Republicans will win the White House in a landslide this year, regardless of the nominee.  —  “I would be surprised if the Republicans don't take 45, 46, 47 states out of the 50,” …

‘I went to join Isis in Syria, taking my four-year-old.  It was a journey into hell’  —  Sophie Kasiki is one of the few women to escape from Raqqa, the stronghold of Islamic State  —  Sophie Kasiki stared at the photograph of a young English-speaking boy in a camouflage uniform …

Paul: Cruz eligibility may reach SCOTUS  —  Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday pressed questions about GOP presidential rival Ted Cruz's eligibility to be president, saying he believes that the issue will have to be resolved by the Supreme Court if Cruz gets elected president.

ABC severs debate partnership with Union Leader  —  ABC is cutting off their partnership with the New Hampshire Union Leader for the Republican primary debate on Feb. 6, an ABC spokesperson has confirmed.  —  The paper was set to have a co-branding relationship for the debate …

CNN's Cooper Lets Slip: White House Press Corps ‘Agrees’ With Obama  —  Share it Tweet it  —  Ooops.  CNN's Anderson Cooper seemingly let slip on Thursday night what anyone who has a watched a presidential press conference already knows, but journalists are usually loath to admit …

Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country  —  Once in a while—not quite often enough to be a crisis, but just often enough to be a trope—people in the United States will freak out because a huge number of highly popular websites and services have suddenly gone down.

Gas prices could drop toward $1 a gallon  —  In some gas stations around the country, the price of a gallon of regular has dropped below $1.42.  AAA and GasBuddy, two organizations that follow gasoline prices, say that gasoline prices below $2 will not be unusual in most of the United States.