* Seven executed bodies posed on plastic chairs with cryptic warning found near traffic circle in Uruapan, Mexico. * Related: Dentist rehydrates corpses to identify victims and investigate murders in crime-ridden Ciudad Juárez. * The untold side of the immigration story: Well-off families escaping violence in Mexico must prove the origins
* One reason to expect some kind of victory for marriage equality in this week's Supreme Court hearings: Justice Kennedy. * Republicans see fundraising opportunities in New York, Florida, and California if they back gay marriage. * From November 2012, Alex Ross on the gay community’s political progress in his
* Number of dead pigs found in two Chinese rivers rises to 16,000; authorities still say Shanghai's water is safe to drink. * E-cigarette sales doubled last year, and are expected to double again in 2013; "vaping" seen as smoking's next step. * Ta-Nehisi
* New data says the Universe is officially 13.82 billion years old, only 5% normal matter, and also a bit lopsided. * In Syria, the first suicide bombing to detonate in a mosque kills 42, including a prominent Sunni Muslim preacher. * Police in Moscow crack down on fake ambulances that carry
* Nor could I compare Obama favorably to Bush...most Iraqi Kurds prefer the muscle of a Republican in office. * Fifteen-year-old Nobel Peace Prize nominee returns to school after Taliban gunmen shot her in the head for supporting girls' education. * Reid: "The time for watered-down and
* U.S. asks for Rwanda's help shipping war-crimes suspect to The Hague; suspect suspected of knowing Rwanda's secrets. * Obama's limousine refuses to start after someone fills it with gas, not diesel. * According to records, adverse psychological reactions to combat never even approached the
* This week marks the 21st anniversary of Hezbollah's 1992 Israeli embassy bombing; modern Europe should pay heed. * Hamas launches program to teach Hebrew in Gaza schools, with neither a strategic nor conciliatory agenda. * Study finds truck drivers who consume caffeine are 63% less likely to crash than drivers
* More than a dozen car bombs and suicide blasts kill nearly 60 around Iraq on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion. * Five takes on whether America is better off now than it was when Saddam Hussein was in power. * Reed rejects Feinstein's assault-weapons ban
* Does it destroy a teenager’s life to take him off the path of being an adult rapist? * Excerpts from the RNC's surprisingly frank election postmortem. * International sanctions are leaving Iran's hospitals without supplies—surgeons are resorting to "old drugs." * FBI says it knows
* Few statistics exist for Syria's uprising, but Assad's army is estimated to be half its size, certain of the loyalty of only 50,000 soldiers. * Blogger who helped bring the Steubenville rape case to national attention explains her investigative process. * Rape is that unique crime in
