Obama Weighs Options to Close Guantanamo  —  Any Move to Override Congressional Ban on Bringing Detainees to U.S. Would Spark Fight  —  The White House is drafting options that would allow President Barack Obama to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by overriding …

Oregon's first lady admits illegal marriage to Ethiopian immigrant  —  Oregon first lady Cylvia Hayes admitted Thursday she illegally married an Ethiopian immigrant because she needed money and he needed help to stay in the United States.  —  Hayes said she married 18-year-old Abraham Abraham …

By The Denver Post Editorial Board  —  (Kathryn Scott Osler, Denver Post file)  —  Congress is hardly functioning these days.  It can't pass legislation that is controversial and it often can't even pass legislation on which there is broad agreement.  Its reputation is abysmal …

Courts Strike Down Voter ID Laws in Wisconsin and Texas  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday evening stopped officials in Wisconsin from requiring voters there to provide photo identification before casting their ballots in the coming election.  —  Three of the court's …

EBOLA PATIENT'S TEMPERATURE SPIKED TO 103 DEGREES … DALLAS (AP) — Thomas Eric Duncan's temperature spiked to 103 degrees during the hours of his initial visit to an emergency room - a fever that was flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital's record-keeping system, his medical records show.

Pregnant teens who joined ISIS: We've made a huge mistake  —  The two teens are believed to be married, pregnant and living in the Islamic State-controlled city of Raqqa.  —  The teenage girls who abandoned their families in Austria to become jihadis for ISIS feel they've made a terrible mistake …

Wendy Davis is running one of the nastiest campaign ads you will ever see  —  Wendy Davis is almost certainly not going to be the next governor of Texas.  Apparently, though, she's willing to try just about anything to alter that reality.  —  Witness her new ad that begins with this visual.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014  —  The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is to be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.

Bride-to-be 'becomes pregnant after having sex with dwarf stripper on hen night... and husband only realises when she gives birth'  —  A bride-to-be became pregnant after having sex with a dwarf stripper on her hen night, it has been claimed.  —  The woman had to confess to cheating …

Amazon Must Be Stopped  —  It's too big.  It's cannibalizing the economy.  It's time for a radical plan.  —  Before we speak ill of Amazon, let us kneel down before it.  Twenty years ago, the company began with the stated goal of creating a bookstore as comprehensive as the great Library of Alexandria …

U.S. taxpayers paid $486 million for Afghan air fleet.  DOD sold it for scrap.  —  The Defense Department destroyed nearly half a billion dollars worth of defective Italian aircraft that U.S. taxpayers bought for Afghanistan and then sold the scrap for $32,000, according to an agency watchdog.

Gay Republican congressional candidate accused of sexual harassment  —  San Diego (CNN) — Charges of sexual misconduct, plagiarism and burglary have pitted a former staffer against a high-profile congressional candidate just weeks before the midterm elections.

South Dakota Senate candidate lives in D.C.  —  Larry Pressler, who is running for Senate in South Dakota as an independent, has his principal residence in Washington, according to District of Columbia tax records.  —  Pressler, who served as a Republican in Congress from 1975 to 1997 …

Secret Deficit Lovers  —  What if they balanced the budget and nobody knew or cared?  —  O.K., the federal budget hasn't actually been balanced.  But the Congressional Budget Office has tallied up the totals for fiscal 2014, which ran through the end of September, and reports that the deficit plunge …

Deadly Force, in Black and White  —  by Ryan Gabrielson , Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara  —  Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts - 21 times greater i, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings.

Obama: You Can't Get Ebola ‘Sitting Next to Someone on a Bus;’ CDC: ‘Avoid Public Transportation’  —  (CNSNews.com) - Speaking in a video message to residents of West African countries currently experiencing outbreaks of Ebola, President Barack Obama dispensed advice on how residents can avoid the disease …

Army War College Revokes Sen. John Walsh's Degree  —  The U.S. Army War College revoked Democratic Sen. John Walsh's master's degree after an investigation completed Friday concluded he plagiarized a research paper required to graduate, a college spokeswoman said.

Ads Paid for by Secret Money Flood the Midterm Elections  —  More than half of the general election advertising aired by outside groups in the battle for control of Congress has come from organizations that disclose little or nothing about their donors, a flood of secret money that is now at the center …