* If I could snap my finger and get rid of all the guns, I would. I think they're evil. ... People are making money off them, and people are dying. * North Korea says missiles are targeting Hawaii, Guam, and the mainland U.S.—more of a message to its
* Ellen DeGeneres's career viewed as litmus test for understanding America's progress on gay rights since 1986. * Arizona store won't sell Mark Kelly an assault weapon after learning he didn't intend to use it. * More than 3,000 people killed by guns in
* 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
The media has labored to stress the humility of the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church. But somehow they missed his taste for Burt Reynolds movies, and other signs of holy humbleness.
* 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
Celebrity breakups last an extremely long time. In most cases they seem to stretch well past the sell-by date of whatever relationship they were originally attached to.
How to play, how to win, and how to act like you won whether you did or not.
* 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
