Jeb Bush Allies Threaten Wave of Harsh Attacks on Marco Rubio, an Ex-Mentee  —  The cash-rich group aiding Jeb Bush's White House run has filmed a provocative video casting his rival Marco Rubio as ultimately unelectable because of his hard-line stand against abortion.

Meet The Mizzou Media Professor Who's Trying To Ban Media Coverage  —  After desperately trying to gin up media coverage of student protests at the University of Missouri, one of the school's media professors is now furiously trying to “muscle” the press off campus to prevent …

Donald Trump: ‘Maybe we should boycott Starbucks’  — “If I become president, we're all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, I can tell you,” Trump told a crowd in Springfield, Illinois  —  Washington (CNN)Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump weighed in on the day's controversy on Monday …

Out100 2015 Cover Revealed: President Barack Obama … The 44th President of the United States is our Ally of the Year—a president who came to office on a wave of euphoria, appeared to lose momentum halfway through, and has since rallied, helping us secure marriage equality …

FBI steps up interviews in Clinton email probe  —  Even as Hillary Clinton tries to put questions about her private email server behind her, the FBI has stepped up inquiries into the security of the former Secretary of State's home-made email system, and how aides communicated over email, POLITICO has learned.

Appeals court keeps block on Obama immigration actions  —  A federal appeals court has rejected President Barack Obama's effort to move forward with a series of executive actions he announced last year seeking to give quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of undocumented immigrants.

Even as House Speaker, Paul Ryan Sleeps in His Office  —  WASHINGTON — The speaker has no house.  —  Of all his unusual traits for his new role — relative youth, a love of Clif bars for lunch and an excessive interest in tax policy — the most notable may be Speaker Paul D. Ryan's insistence on sleeping in his Capitol Hill office.

Ben Carson's Roman fixation  —  Ben Carson doesn't have a detailed foreign policy platform, but he does have a clear worldview: the evangelical precept that the greatest danger facing America is moral and spiritual decline at home — a decline he often compares to a Roman Empire collapsing under …

Cronyism: For the Likes of Google, It is Really, REALLY Good to be a Friend of Obama  —  If President Barack Obama doesn't like you - his government tends to make your life really, REALLY miserable.  Ask Tea Party and conservative groups - when Obama's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) …

A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us  —  It's too easy, and also rash and risky, to criticize people on the basis of perhaps-out-of-context social media snippets.  —  So let me compliment someone!  You may already have seen the video below, shot this afternoon at the University of Missouri.

Republican Candidates Push Bold Tax Plans  —  Proposed changes go well beyond the party's previous platforms and ensure the issue will play a central role in the general election  —  Republican presidential candidates are competing to propose dramatic changes to tax policy that go well beyond …

Jeb Bush's Comeback Plan Looks Weaker Than Advertised  —  Though the Republican presidential candidate's team says they're focused on March contests, there are few signs of enthusiasm in those states.  —  michaelcbender  —  As Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush's poll numbers dropped …

Deans, faculty members call for Loftin's dismissal  —  The same day University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe announced his resignation, the deans of nine different MU colleges requested the dismissal of Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.  —  In a letter sent Monday to Wolfe and the UM Board of Curators …