New NBC News/Survey Monkey Poll: Donald Trump Still in the Lead After Debates  —  If Donald Trump's comments about Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly are hurting his standing in the Republican primary, it's not showing in the numbers.  —  According to the latest NBC News Online Poll conducted by SurveyMonkey …

‘Black Lives Matter’ and the G.O.P.  —  Only one candidate in last week's Republican presidential debate was asked to directly address the Black Lives Matter movement and that candidate was Gov. Scott Walker.  —  Moderator Megyn Kelly asked Walker:  —  “Governor Walker …

It's Not the First Time Donald Trump Has Flirted With a Third-Party Run  —  Over nearly two decades, Donald J. Trump has given more than a little thought to a third-party presidential candidacy.  How serious he is about it for 2016 is about to be tested.  —  Mr. Trump, who in early polls …

Hero SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS maniac  —  A HERO SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son.  —  ALAMY  —  An SAS sniper took out the ISIS executioner just in time

Sam Brownback's brother accused of terrorizing rural neighbors  —  Joann Peine, social worker by profession and farm wife by marriage, ended a period of soul-searching by asking a Linn County District Court judge to issue protection orders for stalking against Jim Brownback and his stepdaughter.

Capitalists, Arise: We Need to Deal With Income Inequality  —  I'M scared.  The billionaire hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones is scared.  My friend Ken Langone, a founder of the Home Depot, is scared.  So are many other chief executives.  Not of Al Qaeda, or the vicious Islamic State …

U.S.A., Land of Limitations?  —  YAMHILL, Ore. — We like to boast of America as the “land of opportunity,” and historically there is truth to that.  —  “We have never been a nation of haves and have-nots,” Senator Marco Rubio once declared.  “We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves …

More twists and turns in Hillary's email saga  —  On Friday, things began heating up again in the legal proceedings regarding Hillary Clinton's emails.  Readers will recall the Judge Emmet Sullivan, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., had ordered the State Department to ask Clinton …

1 person shot during protests late Sunday in Ferguson  —  Updated at 3:10 a.m. with father identifying shooting victim.  —  FERGUSON  • A peaceful day of protest and remembrance dissolved into chaos late Sunday when a man fired multiple shots at four St. Louis County plainclothes detectives in an SUV.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS EXCLUSIVE: President Barack Obama on the P+5 Iran deal  —  CNN's FAREED ZAKARIA GPS features an interview with President Barack Obama who presses his case for support of the nuclear deal negotiated between the U.S., its allies, and Iran, for a global exclusive interview in the Map Room at the White House.