Last Slide  —  If there's one thing Democrats and Republicans agree on this year, it's the fact that the next president will face enormous challenges.  —  Domestically, this president must work with Congress in confronting the issues of immigration, health care, increased threats to national security …

Trump: I could shoot people in streets and not lose support  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump thinks there's not much he could possibly do to erode his support.  —  Lauding his fans' loyalty at a campaign event in Sioux Center, Iowa, on Saturday, Trump said he could kill people and still be popular.

Bloomberg, Sensing an Opening, Revisits a Potential White House Run  —  Galled by Donald J. Trump's dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clinton's stumbles and the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side, Michael R. Bloomberg has instructed advisers …

REPORT: Locals Fled Pool After Migrants Masturbated Into Jacuzzi, Defecated Into Kid's Pool, Invaded Girls Changing Rooms  —  A German swimming bath has banned migrants from entering the premises after a group of men went on an obscene rampage, laughing in the faces of pool staff when challenged about their grotesque behaviour.

Good Samaritan fatally shot by man he was trying to help in Catawba County  —  Authorities say Marvin Jacob Lee, 27, in jail charged with murder  —  Lee's car was stuck when helpers arrived to give car a push  —  As helpers called police to help, suspect began to fire a pistol

Rubio early-state strategy comes with potential risks  —  Marco Rubio's campaign appears to be coalescing around a unique and potentially risky strategy to catch fire in the GOP presidential primary, one that isn't predicated on success in either Iowa and New Hampshire.

Road Travel Ban to Go Into Effect in New York City as Massive Winter Storm Hits East Coast  —  A massive winter storm clobbered a huge swath of the eastern United States on Saturday, pounding cities such as Washington and New York with snow and stranding hundreds of motorists from Kentucky to Pennsylvania on icy interstates.

Biden: U.S. and Turkey prepared for military solution in Syria  —  Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday said the U.S. and regional ally Turkey are prepared to seek a military solution in Syria to try to solve the nation's five-year-long civil war.  —  Speaking after a meeting …

The Contempt That Poisoned Flint's Water  —  Even before the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, was found to be tainted with lead—before water from some areas tested at more than twice the level considered to be toxic waste, and public-health officials said that every last child in the city …

Trump Spokeswoman: Malcolm X Is ‘My Idol,’ Republicans Are Racist  —  Since joining the Trump campaign as a national spokeswoman in November, Katrina Pierson has served as an attack dog of sorts for Donald Trump, attempting to expose his critics and opponents as faux conservatives …

Why the Justice Department Won't Work with the FBI on Clinton's E-mail Case  —  nother day, another double-take reading the New York Times.  —  The latest shoe in the investigation of Hillary Clinton's scandalous mishandling of classified information dropped heavily this week.