EgyptAir: Searchers have found floating luggage, seats, and body parts from the downed EgyptAir passenger jet. The Airbus 320 was flying normally overnight Thursday from Paris to Cairo when it suddenly jerked to the left, then spun right and plummeted …

Life: A Colorado jury chose life in prison over death for convicted movie theater shooter James Holmes. The jury had previously decided that Holmes’s mental illness was not a mitigating factor in his killing of 12 people in an Aurora. …

No Peace: Rioters smashed windows and burned a police car again last night in Ferguson, Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon had more than quadrupled the number of National Guard troops in Ferguson last night, bringing the number to 2,900. From Boston …

The New Deal: President Obama and Republican leaders knocked heads at lunch yesterday over immigration reform. The newly empowered congressional bosses warned Obama not to take executive action and the president said he would do exactly that if he is …

World: An Afghan security guard at a hospital in Kabul opened fire, killing three American doctors and wounding an American nurse. Two of the doctors were a father and son. The gunman was wounded in the incident and underwent surgery …

Unconstitutional: The NSA’s indiscriminate collection of domestic telephone data violates the Constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, according to a ruling by a federal judge. DC District Judge Richard Leon also noted that the NSA was unable to cite …

Cancer Spike: Breast cancer is leading a worldwide spike in cancer deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Overall cancer deaths in 2012 were up 8 percent from the last survey in 2008. But breast cancer rose 14 percent in …

TWTR: Shares of Twitter opened this morning at $45.10, nearly $20 higher than the offering price of $26, or $18.1 billion for the entire company. The 140-character message service has become a player in personal relationships, politics, even war. But, …

Friends: The Obama administration gave a shifty denial to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about monitoring her personal cell phone, according to the NY Times. National Security Advisor Susan Rice said the monitoring was not “currently” happening, but didn’t say it …

Shutdown, Day 2: President Obama this morning cancelled his planned trip to the Philippines and Malaysia because of the government shutdown. He’s still going to the Asian summit in Bali.   The Senate yesterday rejected a piecemeal House bid to …