Streaming Death: Facebook is defending itself after a Cleveland man posted video of himself randomly killing an elderly man, and then went live on Facebook announcing the murder. More than two hours passed before Facebook took down the videos. A …

New York Values: So much for Ted Cruz and his dismissal of the world’s greatest city. Donald Trump leads Cruz by 30 percent in the polls going into today’s New York primary. Trump has a chance to win all 85 …

Human Tide: The Italian Coast Guard today was responding to distress calls from two boats loaded with as many as 450 people in the Mediterranean. After the drowning of as many as 1,100 African migrants in just the past week, …

Guilty x 30: Boston Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev was convicted yesterday of all 30 charges against him in the 2013 terrorist bombing. The reading of verdicts took 25 minutes. It was not a surprise. Tsarnaev had admitted his part in …

Upheld: The Supreme Court today upheld Michigan’s voter initiative that bans racial preference, otherwise known as affirmative action, for admission to the state’s public universities. Michigan’s Proposal 2, passed in 2006 with 58 percent of the vote, prohibits discrimination or …

Spaghetti Justice: An Italian court has found Seattle resident Amanda Knox guilty of murder for a second time in a tabloid case that has dragged on since the murder of her room mate Meredith Kercher in 2007.  The presiding judge …

National: Protesters rallied all across the country again yesterday demanding that civil rights charges be brought against George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network organized the demonstrations outside federal buildings in 101 cities. ➢A …

Attack on Democracy: Maoist rebels in India attacked a convoy carrying members of the ruling Congress party, killing 24 and wounding at least 37 others. Indian press reports say the rebels blocked the road with downed trees then set off …

National: The three women held prisoner in a Cleveland house for 10 years or more were released from the hospital this morning. One of them is Amanda Berry, whose case was widely publicized when she disappeared at age 17 after …

Boston: The three young men arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings are accused of obstructing justice and destroying evidence. Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both 19, are citizens of Kazakhstan who came to the US as students. Robel …