Obama: 19 firefighters killed battling Arizona blaze are ‘heroes’  —  President Obama on Monday offered his condolences to the families of 19 firefighters who died battling a raging wildfire in central Arizona.  —  Obama praised the firefighters as “heroes — highly-skilled professionals who …

New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies  —  Exclusive: Edward Snowden papers reveal 38 targets including EU, France and Italy  —  Berlin accuses Washington of cold war tactics  —  US intelligence services are spying on the European Union mission in New York and its embassy in Washington …

New same-sex marriage challenge fails  —  Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy turned down at midday Sunday a request to stop same-sex marriages from occurring in California.  Without comment, and without seeking views from the other side, Kennedy rejected a challenge to action …

Millions flood Egypt's streets to demand Mursi quit  —  (Reuters) - Millions of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign in the biggest challenge so far to rule by his Muslim Brotherhood.

WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO - Syrian Jihadists behead Catholic priest  —  Jihadists are terrorizing Syrians and persecuting Christians.  —  Syrian terrorists have beheaded a Catholic priest who they accused of collaborating with the Assad regime.  Those accusations have not yet been verified.

Trump: ‘Terrible traitor’ Snowden embarrassing US  —  Real estate mogul Donald Trump said Monday that Edward Snowden was a “threat” and a “terrible traitor,” and urged American authorities to take extraordinary actions to capture him.  —  “This guy is a tremendous threat,” Trump told Fox News.

War On the Unemployed  —  Is life too easy for the unemployed?  You may not think so, and I certainly don't think so.  But that, remarkably, is what many and perhaps most Republicans believe.  And they're acting on that belief: there's a nationwide movement under way to punish the unemployed …

Immigration bill faces uncertain future in House  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The immigration debate is shifting to the Republican-led House, where lawmakers have shown little appetite for the large-scale, comprehensive approach their Senate colleagues embraced last week.

For Davis, Opportunity Knocks at Inopportune Time … Wendy Davis is never going to see a better moment for a statewide run for office, even though the odds of a Democrat winning statewide in Texas could not be worse.  —  She would almost certainly lose.  —  There are always more reasons not to run than to run.

How Patton Boggs got mired in an epic legal battle with Chevron over jungle oil pits  —  It's a monumental battle of wills, money and egos.  —  The oil giant Chevron, the third-biggest U.S. company by revenue, has sued Patton Boggs, the nation's premier legal and lobbying firm …

Goodbye, Google Reader.  Here are 5 alternatives  —  On Monday, fans of Google's popular Reader application will bid farewell.  —  Google shuts down Reader on July 1, citing a drop in usage and a shift toward a smaller selection of Google services.  —  If you're a Google Reader user, now's the time to export your subscriptions.