Rodney King dead at 47  —  Los Angeles (CNN) — Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved, was found dead in his swimming pool Sunday, authorities and his fiancee confirmed.  He was 47.

Top GOP Pundit Bill Kristol Praises Obama Immigration Order As ‘The Right Thing To Do’  —  On Fox News Sunday this morning, host Chris Wallace asked Bill Kristol, a leading GOP pundit and apologist for the Iraq War, how he felt about President Obama's recent announcement that the Department …

C.E.O. Pay Is Rising Despite the Din  —  YOU call this a revolution?  —  Probably the most-heard complaint about big business these days, one seemingly tailored for the 99 percent, is how much money corporate C.E.O.'s routinely pull down.  Many ordinary Americans probably cheered when stockholders …

The Real Story Of Barack Obama  —  A new biography finally challenges Obama's famous memoir.  And the truth might not be quite as interesting as the president, and his enemies, have imagined.  —  David Maraniss's new biography of Barack Obama is the first sustained challenge to Obama's control …

Explain to me again why they are called “reporters”?  —  When Neil Munro shouted out a question to Obama yesterday as Obama was reading a statement in the Rose Garden about his unilateral thumbing of Congress and the American people in the eye, a firestorm of condemnation erupted among media-types on both the left and right.

‘Angry’ money gives funding edge to GOP and Romney  —  Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Cornwall Iron Furnace on June 16, 2012 in Cornwall, Pennsylvania.  Mr. Romney continues hs campaign swing through battle ground states …

New Law To Keep Booze Flowing For Democratic Convention  —  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Adding a twist to blue laws in an increasingly red state, North Carolina's Republican-led legislature is toasting a measure intended to keep the booze flowing at the Democratic National Convention.

Playbook: Prankster Mitt leaves note  —  How ya doin', Knucklesnorts?" http://mi.tt/LS1tAU  —  ROMNEY TO SCHIEFFER: “Europe is capable of dealing with their banking crisis if they choose to do so” ... PLOUFFE TO STEPHANOPOULOS: “This is within the power of the Europeans to act”

Broken Trust Takes Time to Mend  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA caused a stir recently when he said that “the private sector is doing fine” and pinned many of the nation's economic troubles on a decline in public-sector employment.  He cited some interesting numbers, but he didn't draw the right lesson …

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DNA Gives New Insights Into Michelle Obama's Roots  —  REX, Ga. — Joan Tribble held tightly to her cane as she ventured into the overgrown cemetery where her people were buried.  There lay the pioneers who once populated north Georgia's rugged frontier, where striving white men planted corn and cotton …

Beau Biden takes shot at Mitt Romney, hits Gov. Bev Perdue  —  Beau Biden, the son of the Democratic vice president, went “off script,” as he called it, to fire a shot a Republican Mitt Romney but hit Gov. Bev Perdue at the same time.  —  At the N.C. Democratic Party's annual fundraising dinner …

CONSERVATIVES LIKELY TO WIN GREEK ELECTION  —  UPDATE II:  —  It's starting to look like the conservatives are going to pull out the victory.  —  The latest wave of exit polls show New Democracy expanding its tiny lead of the left-wing SYRIZA coalition.  —  Whereas in the first exit poll …

Officials: Hamas ordered Grad attack on Israel at request of Muslim Brotherhood  —  It is unclear whether the rocket was part of an attempt to launch rockets at specific targets within Israel.  —  The remains of a rocket attack on Netivot in southern Israel.  Photo by Eliyahu Hershkowitz