BREAKING: Beheading Suspect Fired After Argument Over Stoning Women  —  Hometown paper reveals details about suspect in the Oklahoma murder.

TRAFICANT VIDEO, PRINT TRIBUTE |  Funeral details to come Monday  —  YOUNGSTOWN - A spokeswoman for the family of James A. Traficant Jr. confirmed that the former congressman died today at St. Elizabeth Health Center.  —  Heidi Hanni, the family spokeswoman, said no details about Traficant's death …

The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist  —  We're being had.  Again.  —  For six years, President Obama has endeavored to will the country into accepting two pillars of his alternative national-security reality.  First, he claims to have dealt decisively with the terrorist threat, rendering it a disparate series of ragtag jayvees.

Iowa Poll: Joni Ernst now leads Bruce Braley for Senate  —  The ground under Bruce Braley has shifted.  The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate is 6 points behind his GOP rival, Joni Ernst, according to The Des Moines Register's new Iowa Poll of likely voters.  The Register  —  CONNECT

3rd-Party Names May Tip Scale as 2 Parties Battle for Control  —  WASHINGTON — In an election year shaped by voter anger toward the political establishment, the outcome of an unusually large number of close Senate and governor's races could be determined by the outsize role of third-party candidates.

Justice Department tells Ferguson police to stop wearing bracelets  —  (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Friday to order its officers not to wear bracelets in support of the white policeman who shot to death an unarmed black teenager last month, sparking protests.

Secret Service fumbled response after gunman hit White House residence in 2011  —  The gunman parked his black Honda directly south of the White House, in the dark of a November night, in a closed lane of Constitution Avenue.  He pointed his long, semiautomatic rifle out of the passenger window …

Al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen say fire rocket toward U.S. embassy  —  (Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group said it launched a rocket toward the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, wounding several guards, to retaliate for a purported U.S. drone strike in a northern province of Yemen the day before.

Court urged to let Ohioans vote early  —  Arguing that early voting is necessary to continue to deal with the “unprecedented disaster” at the polls in Ohio in 2004, several civil rights advocacy groups urged the Supreme Court on Saturday to permit Ohioans to start casting their ballots next Tuesday for this year's general election.