Court to rule on health care subsidies  —  The Supreme Court, moving back into the abiding controversy over the Affordable Care Act, agreed early Friday afternoon to decide how far the federal government can extend its program of subsidies to buyers of health insurance.

Obama's expected pick for Attorney General  —  Washington (CNN) — Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, is expected to be President Barack Obama's pick for Attorney General, U.S. officials briefed on the matter told CNN.  —  An announcement is expected in the coming days …

Mpls.  Mayor Flashes Gang Sign with Convicted Felon; Law Enforcement Outraged  —  5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has obtained a photo of Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges posing with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign.  —  The man in the photo is a twice-convicted felon for drug selling …

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin: People Just Don't Believe Obama Cares  —  West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin told TIME Thursday that President Barack Obama has lost his emotional connection with the American people.  —  “There's an old saying my grandmother would say …

Jobs Data Show Steady Gains Even as Voters Signal Anxiety  —  Three days after voters expressed their discontent with the state of the economy, the government on Friday reported strong signs of improvement, estimating that employers added 214,000 jobs in October, while the official jobless rate dropped …

McConnell: If Rand Paul runs for president, 'he'll be able to count on me'  —  LOUISVILLE — There were only two things Mitch McConnell didn't want to talk about Thursday — whether he will run for re-election in 2020 and his eventual legacy.  —  In his first one-on-one interview since …

Senate Democrats plan a legislative rush before power shifts to the GOP  —  Before ceding full control of Congress to the GOP in January, Senate Democrats are planning to rush a host of critical measures to President Obama's desk, including bills to revive dozens of expired tax breaks and avoid a government shutdown for another year.

Ed Gillespie concedes Virginia Senate race  —  Washington (CNN) — Republican Ed Gillespie conceded the Virginia Senate race Friday to incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner.  —  Gillespie said at a Friday afternoon news conference that he had called Warner “congratulating him on his re-election” …

Triumph of the Wrong  —  The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet midterms to men of understanding.  Or as I put it on the eve of another Republican Party sweep, politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Joni Ernst spokeswoman resigned after OWI arrest  —  Gretchen Hamel, a campaign spokeswoman for Joni Ernst's U.S. Senate campaign, was arrested on Oct. 29 for operating while intoxicated and resigned the morning after the incident.  —  West Des Moines police found Hamel passed out behind …

Steal This Article  —  Late one evening in September, I opened my locker at the gym and was surprised to find my phone ringing.  I was about to become collateral damage in today's take-no-prisoners political culture.  —  BuzzFeed was reporting that the “jobs plan” of the Democratic nominee …

MCINTURFF-HARRINGTON MORNING CONSULT COLUMN (11-6-14): THE ACA WAS NOT A SIGNIFICANT VOTE FACTOR THIS ELECTION  —  Public Opinion Strategies' Election Night Poll shows that the ACA was not as much of a vote factor in 2014 as it was in 2010.  —  Here is what we knew going into Election Day 2014:

In defeat, Obama tells GOP: My mandate is bigger than yours  —  WHITE HOUSE BARACK OBAMA 2014 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS GEORGE W. BUSH VIDEO  —  President Obama did something extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, in his post-election news conference Wednesday: He claimed a mandate on behalf of voters who didn't vote.