Trump's sorry night on ‘SNL’: An overhyped bummer for us all  —  Donald Trump's highly touted and almost certainly inappropriate hosting gig on NBC's “Saturday Night Live” turned out to be an anemic and halfhearted dud.  —  Once upon a time, not so long ago, there might be a lesson to learn …

Ben Carson Thinks You're the Crazy One  —  The real reason we should mock Ben Carson's pyramid theory?  Because it reveals a very dim view of humankind.  —  Of all the gifts that Ben Carson has given comedy writers and Twitter wags in the past weeks, it's his stubborn belief …

British extremists linked to jet bomb: London & Birmingham voices heard cheering disaster  —  BRITISH extremists were behind the bombing of a Russian jet over Egypt, intelligence experts believe.  —  GETTY  —  British extremists have been linked to the Russian jet bomb

The Dying of the Whites  —  STARTING around the turn of the millennium, the United States experienced the most alarming change in mortality rates since the AIDS epidemic.  This shift was caused, not by some dreadful new disease, but by drugs and alcohol and suicide — and it was concentrated …

Fiorina defends not correcting ‘black Muslim’ remark about Obama  —  Carly Fiorina is defending her decision not to correct a man who characterized President Obama as a “black Muslim” at a diner in New Hampshire.  —  Fiorina said it wasn't her job to defend the president, noting that he “isn't on the ballot.”

Mystery light over ocean was missile test … A mysterious light that streaked across San Diego's night sky Saturday, visible as far away as Reno, was a Trident missile test-fired by the Navy.  —  Navy Strategic Systems Programs conducted the scheduled Trident II (D5) missile test flight …

Marco Rubio's Use of Party Credit Card Reinforces a Picture of Messy Finances  —  Newly released credit card statements from the years when Senator Marco Rubio was a young Florida legislator on the fast track to leadership showed a pattern of falling behind on payments while he mingled …