* Journalist Michael Hastings, who ended Gen. McChrystal's career with a revelatory 2010 profile, dies at 33. * Missing Michael Hastings. * Advice from Hastings to young reporters: "When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence." * Collected articles by Michael Hastings. * A survey finds today&
* Owners of 7-Eleven franchises in New York and Virginia charged with running a "modern day plantation system." * See also: Photographs of prisons that have been converted into stylish hotels. * Tips for arming rebels. * Report from inside the world of very expensive, "black-ops" online reputation
* After leaking more files, Snowden seems to have plenty more to give, and may continue pegging releases to news events. * Cosmopolitan magazine asks Snowden what message he'd like to leak to his girlfriend. * Seventy percent of America’s intelligence budget now goes to private contractors; half a million
* China calls speculation that Snowden spied for Beijing "completely groundless." * Russia says it won't allow no-fly zones over Syria, calls such sanctions a disrespect of international law. * The U.S. puts more children and teens in detention than any other developed nation—research shows it&
* Brief profiles of victims from this weekend's gun violence in Chicago, which left seven dead and 41 wounded. * More violent clashes in Istanbul; Erdogan talks of foreign conspiracy, blaming the BBC and CNN. * If you are Hawaiian, how do you seduce Barack Obama? Do you stroke his heart
* Crimes against women are more common in New Delhi than four of India's other metropolises combined. * Study suggests that, on an evolutionary level, menopause was caused by men's preference for younger women. * In a Father's Day protest, man defaces portrait of Queen Elizabeth in
* Supreme court rules 9-0 that human genes cannot be patented, but allows that DNA created in the lab may be protected under patent laws. * Profile of how Gen. Keith Alexander, militant about secrecy, has transformed the NSA into an aggressive power. * Nigeria has 1,042 deaths a year for
* Post-Manning and mid-Snowden, the Pentagon looks for new methods to detect suspicious behavior within its ranks. * Terrific profile of KYAnonymous, aka Deric Lostutter, the Anonymous member who declared war on Steubenville. * North Korea begins live streaming of approved programming to its Facebook page. * From July 22, 1941, the
* Caffeine withdrawal now registered as a mental health disorder, though medical professionals argue over the classification. * Excellent study done of women turned away from abortion clinics. * Governor Sam Brownback has turned Kansas into "an ultraconservative utopia" for Tea-Party policies. * Also by Binelli: Michigan's "Crack
* White House drops legal battle to keep age restrictions on the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill. * Ai Weiwei: NSA surveillance makes the U.S. resemble China, where a lack of privacy stifles creativity and individualism. * Nicaragua moves forward on a vague but seemingly decisive plan to build a
