Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH  —  Donald Trump has returned to the lead in Iowa while Ted Cruz has now surged past Ben Carson into second place.  Carson has slipped from a first-place tie into third.  —  While Iowa's Republicans generally feel Trump is ready …

Louisiana Just Voted to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care  —  Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn't even close.  The two-term senator lost the runoff election to Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards by double digits …

Trump doubles down: Thousands in NJ cheered on 9/11  —  GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is doubling down on comments that thousands of people in parts of New Jersey with large Arab populations cheered on 9/11.  —  Trump said at a rally on Saturday in Birmingham …

Trump advocates waterboarding enemy combatants  —  Donald Trump says if he's elected president, he'll bring back enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding for enemy combatants.  —  “I would bring it back, yes.  I would bring it back,” Trump said on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday.

Buchanan: Terror attacks bringing ‘retreat of liberalism’  —  Political commentator Pat Buchanan says the recent string of terrorist attacks are bringing about a “retreat of liberalism.”  —  “I think we are seeing a general retreat of liberalism in the United States and in Europe …

Five Syrians Stopped at Laredo International Bridge One  —  Five more Syrians have been stopped at a Laredo port of entry on Friday.  This brings the total number of Syrians seeking to enter the US through our city this week up to 13.  —  According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security …

Choose to Be Grateful.  It Will Make You Happier.  —  TWENTY-FOUR years ago this month, my wife and I married in Barcelona, Spain.  Two weeks after our wedding, flush with international idealism, I had the bright idea of sharing a bit of American culture with my Spanish in-laws by cooking a full Thanksgiving dinner.

DHS chief: No credible threat of terrorist attack in US  —  Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says there is no credible intelligence regarding an impending terrorist attack on U.S. soil.  —  “We have no specific credible intelligence about a threat of the Paris type directed at the homeland here …