Sound and Fury: The appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign collusion is a blow to the already-troubled presidency. It sets loose a hunting dog …

Freedom: President Obama Commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning,  originally known as Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who handed over a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks. She will be released this May rather than in 2045. A White …

Working: US incomes rose 5.2 percent in 2015, the biggest one-year jump in median household income since 1967. The median for 2015 was $56,516; good, but not all good. That’s still 2.4 percent lower than the peak in the 1990s. …

Iraq: Government forces appear to have at least temporarily blunted the march of Sunni Islamic militants headed toward Baghdad. Counter attacks by troops for the Shiite led government have actually reclaimed a little territory, the army claims. An Iraqi military …

Gas: President Obama is under pressure today to act after an apparent mass chemical attack in Syria. The Syrian military is suspected of a an attack yesterday that killed hundreds of people, including women and children, in a rebel held …