Korean Heat: South Korea says the North has moved a mid-range missile to the east coast in the direction of Japan and the US. Meanwhile the Pentagon is moving a portable missile defense system to Guam as a precautionary response …

 World: North Korea closed South Korean access to a joint industrial zone, further ratcheting tensions between the two countries and the US. The park just North of the demilitarized zone employs 50,000 North Koreans and hundreds of South Korean business …

World: North Korea is now threatening to re-start its mothballed nuclear reactor. In a continuing escalation of rhetoric, South Korea’s first woman president Park Geun-hye said her country would strike back quickly against any attack by North Korea. The South …

National: The diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has increased more than 50% among American children in the last ten years, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Nearly one in five high school boys have been diagnosed with …

 National: Exxon Mobil is already working to clean up thousands of gallons of oil that leaked from the Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower, Ark. The line carries heavy Canadian crude to a refinery in Texas. This spill feeds the debate over …

National: The Obama administration proposed reducing the amount of sulfur in gasoline by two-thirds to reduce pollution and health costs. The administration claims it would have the benefit of taking 33 million cars off the road. Environmentalists and car companies …

National: Newtown school shooter Adam Lanza fired 154 rounds in five minutes, killing 20 children and six adults last December, Connecticut officials say. Lanza used 30-round magazines for his assault rifle and a stockpile of 1600 rounds was found in …

 National: Court watchers say that the Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward striking down the Defense of Marriage Act that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. DOMA prevents same-sex spouses legally married in nine states …

 National: The Supreme Court will hear arguments again today on same-sex marriage, this time on whether the federal government may deny employment benefits to same-sex partners legally married in their home states. Yesterday the Court heard arguments on whether same-sex …

 World: Italy’s highest court today overturned the 2011 murder acquittal of American student Amanda Knox and ordered her to be retried. It was a salacious case involving sex and drugs. Knox and her former boyfriend at first were convicted of …