Two Coast Guard members have been shot dead on an island off Alaska's coast, prompting the lockdown Thursday of their base and at least one nearby school.

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2 Coast Guard members killed in Alaska

Why won’t Mitt Romney let me like him? Every time I start to make peace with the idea of a Romney nomination, he goes and says something like this: “You know, it’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign if you’re willing to say really outrageous things… you’re going to jump up in the polls. I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support.” Read full article > >

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Don’t light your hair on fire, Mitt

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — More than a decade ago, before Gillette Stadium rose like a palace alongside Route 1 here, New England Patriots practice would close and the veterans would head back up the street to the cramped locker room in the base of old, embarrassing Foxboro Stadium, never home to the Super Bowl champs. A few young players lagged behind, working with position coaches, skeleton drills that amounted to the only competition of the week for those who had no chance of playing. Read full article > >

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Broncos vs. Patriots: Tim Tebow mania nearly makes Tom Brady an afterthought

Every president must make decisions that please or infuriate the base, but Obama’s turns look all the harsher because he rose on a campaign that had aspired to change Washington.

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News Analysis: Reality and a Campaign Add Edge to Obama’s Zigzags

KABUL — Afghan and U.S. troops foiled a complex attack by Taliban insurgents against a NATO-led base Saturday in Panjshir Valley in eastern Afghanistan, one of the few secure regions that so far has remained free of militants’ strikes. Armed with hand grenades, anti-tank rockets and assault rifles, a group of five attackers including at least two suicide bombers launched the pre-dawn raid on the base, perched in the foot of a hill near the only main road in the twisting valley. Read full article > >

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Afghan, U.S. forces repel Taliban raid on NATO base

President Obama’s support is eroding among elements of his base, and Republicans have not coalesced around a candidate, a New York Times/CBS News poll found.

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Obama’s Support Is Slipping, Poll Finds, But His Jobs Plan Is Well Received

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHARANA, Afghanistan — In this rugged province where news travels almost exclusively by radio, the man who calls himself DJ Abed Lawang is one of the biggest names on the airwaves, known for playing hit Pashto ballads, telling jokes and hosting a popular call-in show about farming practices. But there’s one key fact the disc jockey has never told his listeners: He is broadcasting from a studio on a U.S. Army base, delivering messages written by American military officers. He is one of more than 20 radio DJs in Paktika province, and dozens more across the country, who are engaged in what the U.S. military considers a crucial operation: persuading residents in an area dominated by insurgents to embrace Afghan and NATO forces. Read full article > >

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In Afghan fight, U.S. takes to the airwaves

Five foreign and five Afghan soldiers are killed in a Taliban suicide attack at an army base in eastern Afghanistan, one of the deadliest in months.

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Ten die in Afghan army base bomb

Thousands of supporters of Ivory Coast’s disputed President Laurent Gbagbo gather at an army base to enlist, as their rivals seize another town.

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Thousands ‘join Ivory Coast army’

Goldman Sachs also increased the base salary for its C.E.O. to $2 million for 2011.

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DealBook: Goldman Sachs Gives Blankfein a Big Raise

Separatist rebels in southern Thailand kill four soldiers in an unusually well-organised attack on an army base.

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Rebel onslaught on Thai army base

An Australian court finds three men guilty of plotting a suicide attack on a Sydney army base, with two co-defendants acquitted.

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Trio guilty of Sydney attack plot

Michael Steele has reached his tipping point: The Republican National Committee chairman, who is broadly unpopular among his base, will announce tomorrow whether he will seek reelection to a second term. Supporters say he’s unlikely to throw his hat in…

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Steele to Announce RNC Plans Monday

Will he be willing to stand up to his base?

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How Obama can get beyond the debt commission deadlock

Five militants wearing suicide vests and burkas attacked a U.N. compound on Saturday in the largest attack on a U.N. target in Afghanistan this year. After one man blew himself up at the gate, four other attackers entered the base and began a gun…

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Militants Killed in Attack on U.N. Compound