BREAKING UPDATE: One Suspect In Custody After WWII Veteran Beaten To Death  —  BREAKING NEWS: Major crimes investigators have just confirmed that one teenager has been arrested in the beating death of WWII veteran Delbert Belton.  One suspect remains on the loose.  Charges of 1st degree murder and 1st degree robbery pending.

Transcript of President Obama's interview on “New Day”  —  (CNN) — OBAMA: All right.  We're ready?  OK.  —  CUOMO: All right.  Let's begin with why you're here in Syracuse, why you're doing this particular bus tour what do you believe you can do to help lower the cost of college …

Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself  —  The NSA whistleblower says: ‘I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent’  —  (Updated below)  —  The Independent this morning published an article - which it repeatedly claims comes from …

George Zimmerman Shops For Tactical Shotgun  —  SHOPS FOR TACTICAL SHOTGUN  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  George Zimmerman was on the hunt today — for a shotgun ... TMZ has learned.  —  Zimmerman went to Kel-Tec in Cocoa, Florida ... a gun manufacturing company.  We're told he was asking questions …

College Costs Will Keep Rising Under Obama Plan  —  Colleges' exploitation of young Americans through rapidly rising and increasingly exorbitant fees is a national scandal that can no longer be ignored.  In his college tour this week, President Barack Obama is speaking at length about what he intends …

NSA Analysts Intentionally Abused Spying Powers Multiple Times  —  Some National Security Agency analysts deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade, contradicting Obama administration officials' and lawmakers' statements that no willful violations occurred.

A New Strategy to Take on ObamaCare  —  A coalition of conservatives believes that ‘delay’ is more likely to succeed than ‘defund.’  —  The Republicans determined to defund ObamaCare are getting a little competition in the ideas department.  Maybe there's hope for progress against the president's health-care law after all.

Maddow's Dishonest Scare Parade on NC Voting  —  Last night the great David Webb filled in for Sean Hannity on Fox News.  Webb put on Allen West and Juan Williams to talk about urban malaise.  The visuals at Fox must have been too much for Rachel Maddow because she put up an hour long show designed to scare people about voting rights.

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies  —  • Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship  —  • Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA  —  • Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling

N.F.L. Pressure Said to Lead ESPN to Quit Film Project  —  Pressure from the National Football League led to ESPN's decision on Thursday to pull out of an investigative project with “Frontline” regarding head injuries in the N.F.L., according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.

Ben Affleck Is the New Batman  —  VIEW GALLERY … Ben Affleck is Batman.  —  The actor will replace Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in the upcoming untitled Batman-Superman feature for Warner Bros., the studio announced Thursday.  —  Affleck becomes the eighth actor to play the Caped Crusader …

Obama's Economy — We've Fallen And Can't Get Up  —  Economy: Household incomes are still down 4.4% since the recession ended four years ago.  Meanwhile, the unemployment picture may be even worse than we think.  The Obama “recovery” continues to impress.  —  According to a report released …

Can Hillary Clinton Survive Benghazi?  —  Well, sure: she's a Democrat.  That's the easy, cynical response, and let's face it-it's probably right.  Still, by any normal standard Benghazi would be considered a career-ending debacle.  Four men, including one of her own ambassadors …

Data crashes: inevitable and mostly harmless  —  When you look up the price of a stock on the Nasdaq stock exchange, you're not really looking up the price at which it's trading on that exchange.  All of the Nasdaq stocks trade on dozens of exchanges, all of which have the right to trade in those stocks.

Dems watch as Christie rolls  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has made little secret that he wants a resounding win in his reelection this year as a show of strength for his all-but-assumed 2016 presidential candidacy.  —  And Democrats appear perfectly willing to comply.

DHS employee spends spare time promoting race war against ‘whites’  —  Shown here is an image from the War on the Horizon website.  —  A Department of Homeland Security manager in charge of buying weapons and ammunition for the government is, on the side, running an inflammatory website …

This Age of Bubbles  —  So, another BRIC hits the wall.  Actually, I've never much liked the whole “BRIC” — Brazil, Russia, India, and China — concept: Russia, which is basically a petro-economy, doesn't belong there at all, and there are large differences among the other three.

The Shame of Syria  —  by Fouad Ajami (Herbert and Jane Dwight Senior Fellow and cochair, Working Group on Islamism and the International Order)  —  The country's refugees bear the cost of Obama's moral and political evasions.  —  In early June, I traveled to Iraqi Kurdistan and to Istanbul.

Ted Cruz: ‘I am secretly a citizen of Ethiopia’  —  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz poked fun at the flap over his citizenship at an appearance Thursday at National Instruments in Austin.  —  Cruz, who was born in Canada to a U.S.-born mom and Cuban father, said this week he'll renounce his Canadian citizenship …

Younger Republicans think more diverse nominees would help GOP win  —  Here's some advice from younger Republicans for improving the party's fortunes in national elections: Nominate more minority and female candidates.  —  A recent survey of Republican and Republican-leaning adults …