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Fox News: In its second major ruling on gun rights in three years, the Supreme Court Monday extended the federally protected right to keep and bear arms to all 50 states. The decision will be hailed by gun rights advocates and comes over the opposition of gun control groups, the city of Chicago and four [...]

The Telegraph: Commanders do not allow sexual intercourse on the International Space Station, it has been disclosed. “We are a group of professionals,” said Alan Poindexter, a NASA commander, during a visit to Tokyo, when asked about the consequences if astronauts boldly went where no others have been. “We treat each other with respect and [...]

New York Times; by Paul Krugman Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as “depressions” at the time: the years of deflation and instability that followed the Panic of 1873 and the years of mass unemployment that followed [...]

The Hill: As the White House bolsters security along the U.S.-Mexico border while declaring that the region has never been safer, Democratic lawmakers are demanding further action, saying that they are feeling the heat from dissatisfied voters. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week laid out several new initiatives aimed at strengthening the federal government’s [...]

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Craven witch New York Times: TORONTO — Giant banks, while bracing for a wave of tougher regulation in Washington, will not have to face a new set of global rules on capital and liquidity anytime soon. The world’s biggest economies have been developing rules that would require banks to hold more capital and be better [...]

Not really, but he was there…

Fox News: Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving senator in American history, died Monday at the age of 92.

Washington Examiner: By: CHRIS STIREWALT (@cstirewalt) Washington Examiner Political Editor June 28, 2010 The second phase of the great American disillusionment with Barack Obama is complete. The president fell to Earth a year ago after his stratospheric rise because Americans came to see that he was like other politicians. But there was some solace to [...]

Times Of London: Millions of people deemed unfit to work face cuts in their state handouts after George Osborne said that claimants of incapacity benefit were now in his sights as part of an attempt to reform the welfare state. The Chancellor signalled that 2.6 million claimants of the benefit would be targeted as part [...]

Washington Post: TORONTO — President Obama warned Sunday that the world economic recovery remains “fragile” and urged continued spending to support growth, an expansionist call at the end of a summit marked by an agreement among developed nations to halve their annual deficits within three years. The president’s remarks tempered the Group of 20′s headline [...]

The Independent: It’s been 35 years, but people are still scared to get into the water. That’s the legacy of a two-hour movie released in June 1975 by a then little-known director called Steven Spielberg, and which turned the hitherto tranquil act of visiting the beach into a nerve-wracking pursuit which involved the humming, at [...]