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 …

Glenn Beck endorses Cruz, tears into Trump  —  Conservative commentator Glenn Beck on Saturday endorsed Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz for the White House.  —  Beck compared Cruz to the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, and gave him a compass that belonged to the first one, George Washington.

The shoes are raining down in Hillary's e-mail mess  —  It's easy to see why some feel numbed by the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal.  Damning new “shoes” are dropping . . . well, fast and furious, to cite yet another administration outrage (see below).

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

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.

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 says he could shoot people and still wouldn't lose voters  —  Sioux Center, Iowa (CNN)Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street.  —  “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue …

Bloomberg seriously considering White House bid  —  Washington (CNN)Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seriously considering a possible independent presidential run and is looking at making a decision sometime in March, two sources familiar with Bloomberg's thinking told CNN on Saturday.

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.