| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Giant NSA fishing expedition nets a minnow | | Given the political rhetoric surrounding the expiration of parts of the Patriot Act one would think that it was a disaster for counterterrorism efforts. CIA Director John Brennan told CBS' Face the Nation that "terrorist elements have watched very carefully what has happened here in the United States." Sen. Dianne Feinstein stated, "Our national security -- not to mention the safety of all Americans -- is at stake." |
| Today we are all Bidens | | In his moving tribute to Beau Biden, President Barack Obama wrote, "The Bidens have more family than they know." He is right. More family than they could possibly know. Today, we are all Bidens. |
| Anti-Muslim hate rally inspires good | | "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." |
| Proof that Hillary Clinton isn't inevitable | | Experienced members of Hillary Clinton's political team, especially veterans of the bruising 2008 Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses she lost to Barack Obama, know better than to scoff at the arrival of three lesser-known new candidates to the Democratic contest for president. |
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