Ted Cruz Sets His Sights on Marco Rubio, Not Donald Trump, in New Hampshire  —  NASHUA, N.H. — Ted Cruz and his team are smarting over the attention paid to the third-place finisher in Iowa, Marco Rubio, joking that “bronze is the new gold.”  —  When Mr. Cruz fields questions from voters …

Sanders and Clinton Get Substantive.  That's Where They Go Wrong.  —  Thursday night's Democratic debate in New Hampshire was, all commentators agreed, unusually substantive.  Bernie Sanders has clearly gotten the idea that he might actually win this thing, and decided it was time to actually …

Iraqi migrant rapes a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Vienna and tells police it was a ‘sexual emergency’ because he hadn't had sex in months  —  A 10-year-old boy was so brutally raped by an Iraqi migrant in a swimming pool cubicle that he had to be hospitalised for his injuries.

Trent Lott: I'd have thrown out Cruz for ‘liar’ speech  —  Trent Lott (R-Miss.) says he would take a hard line with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) if he was still running the Senate.  —  Cruz, a presidential candidate, assailed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a floor speech last year …

Twitter To Introduce Algorithmic Timeline As Soon As Next Week  —  A Tweetstorm is brewing in San Francisco.  —  Say hello to a brand new Twitter.  The company is planning to introduce an algorithmic timeline as soon as next week, BuzzFeed News has learned.

Clinton email scandal: Why it might be time for Democrats to draft Joe Biden  —  The Hillary Clinton email issue is developing into a real whodunit, complete with Clintonesque legal semantics.  “I never sent or received any material marked classified,” she said with respect to the discovery …

House votes to make ballot collection a felony  —  PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers approved a measure Thursday that would make felons out of people who return the early ballots of others to the polls.  —  The 34-23 House vote, with every Democrat present opposed, was propelled by arguments that the current system is ripe for fraud.

Benghazi committee Dems gave thousands in bonuses while blasting probe's cost  —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (C) as ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings (R) looks on as she arrives to testify before the House Select Committee …

DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties  —  Amid the chaos of the 2009 holiday travel season, jihadists planned to slaughter 290 innocent travelers on a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan.  Twenty-three-year old Nigerian Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab intended …

Illegal immigrant is arrested over murder of American nanny in Austria after she took him in to stop him being deported - and is revealed to have raped underage girl  — Lauren Mann, 25, was found half-naked, face-down on a mattress at her apartment in Austrian capital last month