Clinton Camp Senses Moment to Expose Benghazi Committee  —  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy unleashes the perfect talking point for Democrats pushing for the panel to be dismantled and investigated.  —  Hillary Clinton and her fiercest defenders couldn't have said it better themselves.

Secret Service official wanted to embarrass congressman  —  An assistant director of the Secret Service urged that unflattering information the agency had in its files about a congressman ­critical of the service should be made public, according to a government watchdog report released Wednesday.

Putin wants to humiliate Obama with airstrikes in Syria  —  Barack Obama extends his hand to Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the United Nations General Assembly.  —  The first thing to understand about Vladimir Putin is that he's not content just to win.  He has to destroy his opponents, foreign or domestic.

Crunch time for candidates  —  <p>Rand Paul has a place on the GOP debate stage — for now.</p><p>But the debate rules announced Wednesday by CNBC could end up spelling disaster for the Kentucky senator and several other high-profile candidates — including Gov. Chris Christie and former …

Kentucky Governor: Kim Davis' Statements Show ‘Absurdity’  —  Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear, urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, says her legal claims “demonstrate the absurdity” of her position.  —  In court documents filed late Tuesday …

'This wasn't an abortion': CNN forces anti-Planned Parenthood group to admit Fiorina was wrong  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  David Daleiden, the project lead Center for Medical Progress' anti-Planned Parenthood campaign, admitted on Wednesday that an alleged fetus on a table …

Improving Mobile Profiles  —  People visit Facebook profiles more than four billion times per day, and we're continually looking for ways to make profiles the best place for people to curate their online identities and connect with others.  —  Today, we're unveiling some new, mobile-friendly features for Facebook profiles.

Trump: If I win, I'll send Syrian refugees back  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says if he takes the White House, he will send back Syrian refugees coming to the U.S.  —  “I'm putting the people on notice that are coming here from Syria as part of this mass migration,” he told an audience in Keene, N.H.

Kissinger Biography Is Great, Says Pal of Author and Kissinger in New York Times  —  This Sunday, the New York Times Book Review will publish a review of the first volume of Niall Ferguson's authorized biography of Henry Kissinger, Kissinger: The Idealist.  The reviewer is Andrew Roberts.

Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not  —  You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online.  —  So the most surprising thing about Peeple …

Cougar sightings rattle residents  —  Big cats seen in Lucerne Valley, Hesperia

Congress averts government shutdown, Obama signs funding measure  —  Ending weeks of infighting, the U.S. Congress on Wednesday voted to avert a government shutdown just hours before a midnight deadline, passing a stop-gap measure to extend funding for federal agencies until Dec. 11.

Melania Trump, the Silent Partner  —  Lying prone on a rug adorned with the Great Seal of the United States, the woman who might someday be first lady is wearing high-heeled sandals and a crimson bikini.  —  The date is February 2000.  Donald J. Trump hasn't yet thrown his hat into the ring …