At Least 43 Die as Soldiers Said to Open Fire on Morsi Backers  —  By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and KAREEM FAHIM  —  CAIRO — Egyptian soldiers opened fire on hundreds of unarmed supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi early Monday as they were praying before dawn outside the facility …

Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.  —  Daniel Ellsberg is the author of “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.”  He was charged in 1971 under the Espionage Act for theft and conspiracy for copying the Pentagon Papers.  The trial was dismissed in 1973 after evidence …

Eliot Spitzer Is Nothing Like Anthony Weiner  —  He's a f**king steamroller.  —  Spitzer poses for a selfie after watching Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testify on Capitol Hill last July.  —  Via: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters  —  Eliot Spitzer's attempt to return to public life …

Schools Seeking to Arm Employees Hit Hurdle on Insurance  —  As more schools consider arming their employees, some districts are encountering a daunting economic hurdle: insurance carriers threatening to raise their premiums or revoke coverage entirely.  —  During legislative sessions this year …

The White House says you can sign up ‘without further verification.’  —  The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write.  On the heels of last week's one-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate to offer insurance to workers …

TV Is Americans' Main Source of News  —  Preferred news source varies by age, education, and politics, among other factors  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Television is the main place Americans say they turn to for news about current events (55%), leading the Internet, at 21%.

Analysis: George Zimmerman Probably Won't Be Convicted of Murder or Manslaughter — Here's Why  —  I drew a legal conclusion on “Good Morning America” Saturday that would have surprised the Dan Abrams who covered the George Zimmerman case leading up to, and shortly after, his arrest.

Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower's Law Firm  —  The offices of a Dallas law firm representing a high-profile State Department whistleblower were broken into last weekend.  Burglars stole three computers and broke into the firm's file cabinets.

“Why did you shoot me?  I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control  —  Overwhelming paramilitary force is on the rise  —  Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn't a bookie or a loan shark who killed him.  His local government killed him …

Texas Gov. Rick Perry to declare political plans  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to announce Monday plans for his political future, leaving open the question of whether he'll seek an unprecedented fourth term next year or try again to seek the White House.

Lautenberg's son blasts ‘show horse’ Booker as family endorses Pallone  —  The family of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) on Monday endorsed Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D) in the New Jersey Senate race and criticized frontrunner Cory Booker (D) as a glory-seeking “show horse” who lacks their father's work ethic.

Defining Prosperity Down  —  Friday's employment report wasn't bad.  But given how depressed our economy remains, we really should be adding more than 300,000 jobs a month, not fewer than 200,000.  As the Economic Policy Institute points out, we would need more than five years of job growth …

Hillary Clinton's answer to the has-been charge  —  Republicans in search of an attack line against Hillary Clinton have begun to cast her as a tired relic of the past — an implicit contrast to their own bench of up-and-comers like hip hop-listening Marco Rubio and libertarian-leaning Rand Paul.