The Risk I Will Not Take  —  Americans today face a profound challenge to preserve our common values and national promise.  —  Wage stagnation at home and our declining influence abroad have left Americans angry and frustrated.  And yet Washington, D.C., offers nothing but gridlock and partisan finger-pointing.

Sanders's comment on white people and poverty creates social media stir … stumbled on a question at Sunday's debate over whether white Americans can empathize with blacks, stating that white people don't know what it's like to be poor.  —  “When you are white, you don't know what it's …

Cruz to Unveil Senate Endorsements This Week  —  Ted Cruz's colleagues may loathe him, but they seem to have found somebody else they dislike more.  With the prospect of Donald Trump's nomination looming over the GOP, Cruz is set to unveil endorsements from more than four senators this week …

Some Rubio advisers say get out before Florida  —  Washington (CNN)A battle is being waged within Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's campaign about whether he should even remain in the Republican presidential race ahead of his home state primary on March 15, sources say.

Seeing Trump as vulnerable, GOP elites now eye a contested convention … PARK CITY, Utah — The presentation is an 11th-hour rebuttal to the fatalism permeating the Republican establishment: Slide by slide, state by state, it calculates how Donald Trump could be denied the nomination.

Rebecca Bradley's Published Writings Reveal Opinions That Cross Line Into Hate Speech  —  One Wisconsin Now Uncovers State Court Justice's ‘Venomous’ Homophobia, Calls for Her Resignation

More Latinos Seek Citizenship to Vote Against Trump  —  DENVER — Donald J. Trump's harsh campaign rhetoric against Mexican immigrants has helped him win a substantial delegate lead in the Republican primary, but it is also mobilizing a different set of likely voters — six of them alone in the family of Hortensia Villegas.

Newt: Romney speech ‘vitriolic and nasty’  —  Newt Gingrich on Monday blasted Mitt Romney's speech denouncing Donald Trump as “vitriolic and nasty,” calling it a sure indicator that the 2012 Republican nominee would never be accepted as a consensus party choice at a hypothetical contested convention this summer in Cleveland.

Woman in ‘Mystery Machine’ mini van leads police on pursuit  —  Suspect still at large  —  REDDING, Calif. -  —  A Shasta County woman led law enforcement officers on a pursuit in a mini van painted to look like the ‘Mystery Machine’ from the Scooby Doo cartoon.

Why Nancy Reagan Didn't Want Ronald to Run for a Second Term  —  President Ronald Reagan was running for a second term, and Nancy Reagan was worried.  The president's tight little circle of White House advisers and political strategists were confident as long as Reagan's Democratic opponent …

Trump challenged over ties to mob-linked gambler with ugly past  —  Robert LiButti, top left, and Donald Trump, right.  (Photo illustration: Yahoo News, photos, state of New Jersey, William Thomas Cain/Getty Images, Ron Galella/Getty Images)  —  The daughter of a reputed New Jersey mob figure …

Americans Really Don't Like Immigration, New Survey Finds  —  Sixty-one percent say it jeopardizes the nation.  —  Sixty-one percent of Americans agree that “continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States,” according to a new poll commissioned by management consulting firm …

Ex-ADL chief: Trump's ‘raise your hand’ gambit was deliberate, Nazi-style ‘fascist gesture’  —  Abe Foxman calls episode ‘about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America’; says Republican candidate knew exactly what he was doing

Lust for Destruction  —  When people try to make sense of this topsy-turvy, norm-busting election year, one of the key mistake they make is to assume that the dynamics that operate for Donald Trump in the Republican primary will operate in a general election.  They won't.

27 giant profitable companies paid no taxes  —  Death and taxes are supposed to be two certainties of life.  But a few companies have at least escaped the taxes part.  Investors, though, don't seem all that impressed.  —  There are 27 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 …