GunBeat: In a dramatic declaration, President Obama says in an opinion piece in the NY Times today that he will not support for election any politician who doesn’t advocate gun reform. He writes, “Even as I continue to take every …

The Boys of November: The Mets’ Michael Conforto, who started the season in the minor leagues, hit two home runs last night and would have been the hero if his team hadn’t fallen apart in the top of the 8th …

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. …

Theater Shooting: A 58-year old man opened fire inside a crowded movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, last night, killing two people and wounding nine before shooting himself. It happened at about 7 pm during a showing of the movie “Trainwreck.” Coincidentally, …

Drachma Drama: Greeks went to the polls today to vote on whether to accept a European financial bailout or reject it, and possibly leave the euro zone. Polls showed the electorate in the country of 11 million people has been …

—From Franklin, Tenn.   Econ 101: The Dow Jones gained 267 points this past week on encouraging news about job growth. The economy added 223,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate fell to 5.4%, its lowest point since 2009. …

Second Thoughts: After days of protest and backlash, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he will seek a legislative clarification of the state’s “religious freedom” law he signed last week. Critics say the bill gives license to discriminate against homosexuals and …

Cuban Surprise: President Obama shocked the world and his Republican opponents announcing yesterday that 50 years of shunning Cuba is a failure and that the US is re-establishing diplomatic relations with the island country just 90 miles off the coast …

Massacre: In a continuing war against education, yesterday’s Taliban attack on a Pakistani school in Peshawar resulted in the death of 141 people, 132 of them just schoolchildren. Authorities say nine Taliban gunmen assaulted the compound of the Army Public …

Ukraine: Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine say voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots yesterday in favor of independence from Ukraine. They said the vote was 90 percent in Donetsk and 96 percent in Luhansk, although the election was conducted in some …