Trayvon: Attorney General Eric Holder told the NAACP convention in Florida that the 30 states which have “Stand Your Ground” laws should reconsider. “Separate and apart from the case that has drawn the nation’s attention,” Holder said, “it’s time to …

National: Demonstrations in Florida and across the country were mostly peaceful overnight after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of the unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. About 100 protesters in Oakland, Ca. broke windows and vandalized a police …

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 …