Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos  —  The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading news organizations after four generations.

The Hidden Motivation Behind GOP Threats to Boycott NBC, CNN  —  The Republican Party threatened Monday to pull 2016 Republican primary debates from CNN and NBC if they do not drop plans for special programs on potential 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton—a move that could help …

Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans  —  (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across …

Rep. Ted Yoho Praises Birther Conspiracy, Calls Obamacare Racist Against White People  —  UPDATE: More of Yoho's far-right comments here.  —  Speaking at a town hall meeting earlier this month, Florida Republican congressman Ted Yoho promised that he would support possible birther legislation floated …

Howard Kurtz responds to Tina Brown  —  Howard Kurtz says he will “take the high road” in response to Newsweek editor Tina Brown's public attack on him earlier today, in which she admitted that Kurtz had been fired for “serial inaccuracy.”  —  “I'm going to take the high road and say I'm proud …

Wendy Davis: 'I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case'  —  Texas state senator Wendy Davis spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday afternoon about her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting late-term abortion, her life story, and her future in politics.

Rick Perry shows up in new glasses at RedState gathering  —  NEW ORLEANS - Rick Perry didn't look like the same politician of two years ago at the RedState conservative blogger conference on Saturday.  For one thing, when the Texas governor showed up in New Orleans, he was wearing black horn rimmed glasses …

Qaeda Leader's Edict to Yemen Affiliate Is Said to Prompt Alert  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al Qaeda …

House GOP Weighs Defunding ACORN In 13th Vote To Block Funds To Defunct Organization  —  WASHINGTON — When House GOP leaders abruptly shelved a bill to fund standard federal transportation and housing programs last Wednesday, one of the legislation's few uncontroversial provisions …

Beauty Queen Arrested For Throwing Homemade Bombs  —  (KUTV) Miss Riverton, crowned in June and set to compete in the Miss Utah pageant, was arrested early Saturday morning along with her three friends after allegedly throwing homemade bombs at people and homes.

Rep. Gohmert: Closing embassies made US look ‘like a bunch of cowards’  —  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Monday that the Obama administration is making the United States look “like a bunch of cowards” by closing 19 embassies amid intelligence reports about possible terrorist attacks.

Exclusive: Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an ‘emergency’  —  TOKYO - Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday.

Obama to Seek Limited U.S. Mortgage Role  —  President Would Boost Private Lenders and Ultimately Replace Fannie, Freddie  —  By - NICK TIMIRAOS and - CAROL E. LEE -  —  WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will call for a continued but limited government role to backstop the U.S. mortgage market …

Boston bomber ‘had far-right papers’  —  What was behind Boston bombing?  Hilary Andersson reports  —  One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in the run-up to the attack, BBC Panorama has learnt.

Dead people gave nearly $600K to campaigns since 2009  —  WASHINGTON — The dead can't vote, but they can give money to politicians.  —  Thirty-two people listed on federal campaign records as “deceased” have contributed more than $586,000 to congressional and presidential candidates …

Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity  —  Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network.