The Supremes: The court edited a key provision of Obamacare this morning with a 5-4 majority saying an employer with religious objections does not have to provide free contraception under its healthcare plan. The ruling came in the case brought …

Border: President Obama is asking for $2 billion to deal with the flood of illegal immigrants, many of them unaccompanied children, coming across the border in Texas. Since October, more than 52,000 children have been apprehended after crossing the border …

Iraq: The government is using helicopter gunships to hit Sunni Islamic militants in Tikrit, the hometown of the late dictator Saddam Hussein. A major advance involving tanks and thousands of troops may be underway. Meanwhile the US is flying drones …

World: President Obama has stepped into the Syrian civil war, asking Congress for $500 million to train and equip “appropriately vetted” members of the Syrian opposition. The danger of sending equipment to Syria is that weapons can fall into the …

Still Looking: Australian authorities have designated a new 23,000 square mile area in the southern Indian Ocean to search for the remains of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The new zone selected on the basis of satellite information, about 1,100 miles …

Iraq: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has rejected international calls to form a unity government that includes the Sunni minority to defuse the country’s civil war. Maliki is a Shiite who has squeezed Sunnis out of power in both the military …

We Knew That: Flame-haired former newspaper editor Rebekah Brooks has been found not guilty of hacking the cellphones of celebrities and news subjects for Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World. Her former deputy Andy Coulson was found guilty on …

Guilty of Journalism: Three journalists working for the Al-Jazeera English news network today were convicted by an Egyptian court of terrorism related charges and sentenced to seven years in prison. The three, including an Australian, a Canadian Egyptian, and an …

The Caliphate: Sunni militants from Iraq have taken a Syrian border post in a sudden move to the west in their fight to carve out a separate state in the Middle East. They also captured a fourth town in Anbar …

Ukraine: Russia is demanding an apology from Ukraine claiming artillery fire hit a Russian border post and destroyed a building. It happened just as Ukraine declared a one-day ceasefire. A Kremlin statement said about the ceasefire, “this is not an …