Advise and Dissent: Issuing his strongest condemnation yet of Donald Trump, President Obama yesterday urged Republicans to abandon their own presidential candidate. “The question they have to ask themselves is: If you are repeatedly having to say in very strong …

French Massacre: Twelve people are dead in Paris today in a massacre at the offices of the weekly French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Gunmen entered the offices in late morning, asking for some people by name, according to reports. Several …

Survivor: The talk of the nation is 7-year-old Sailor Gutzler, who survived a plane crash Friday night in western Kentucky and walked out of the chilly woods in shorts and bare feet. The two-engine Piper aircraft piloted by her father …

Nation: Tens of thousands of people, including police officers from across the country, are gathered in Brooklyn for the funeral today of New York police officer Wenjian Liu who was murdered with his partner Dec. 20th. Liu, the only child …

Cyber Spat: The US has slapped new sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for the hacking attack on Sony Pictures …. despite doubts among private sleuths that North Korea was actually behind it. The sanctions target 10 public officials and …

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chief of Police William Bratton should do the one thing they would never dare do to fix the attitude of their police force. They should fire a thousand cops.   In the midst …

AirAsia: The first bodies from AirAsia 8501 have been returned to Indonesia as recovery teams try to pick up as many as they can before they disappear into the sea. The first two unidentified bodies were carried in coffins marked …

Missing Jet: Search teams say they have found wreckage and bodies from AirAsia flight 8501 in the Java Sea off the coast of Borneo. Searchers say they can see what appears to be the shape of part of the fuselage …

Missing Jet: Investigators have no idea what happened to the missing AirAsia jetliner with 162 people on board. Some unidentified debris has been spotted. The head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said at a news conference in Jakarta, “Based …

Box Office: North Korea is directly blaming President Obama for the release of the movie The Interview. A statement from North Korea’s National Defense Commission says, “U.S. President Obama is the chief culprit who forced the Sony Pictures Entertainment to …