Happy Summer.. Myths of the season explained.. Solstice arrests at Stonehenge.. Sunni militants make further territorial gains in Iraq.. One million have fled in Iraq.. ISIS mocks Michelle Obama on Twitter.. The top legislative body of the Presbyterian Church has voted by large margins to recognize same-sex marriage as Christian in the church constitution.. Pope Francis is evaluating whether to make a visit to the Mexico/US border.. This as the immigration battle in the United States intensifies with so many people streaming across the border from Central American countries into the US.. FOX Latino reports: "Quoting sources of the Holy See, the Mexican news agency Notimex said Pope Francis has consulted in recent weeks with several people he trusts about possible destinations in northern Mexico.".. A bee story: White House mobilizes task force on Colony Collapse.. PHILLY.COM has a must read but yet horrible depressing article about law enforcement officials who are haunted by their work.. The article studies Pennsylvania Attorney General's Child Predator Unit and details how investigators have to watch hours of horrendous child abuse as part of their jobs.. MORE UPDATES TO COME | The Washington POST reveals: The CIA cooked up an Obama Bin Laden 'demon toy'.. the theory: An n Osama bin Laden action figure whose face peeled off to reveal a scary devil beneath.. It was meant to scare Afghanistan children and their parents.. Thousands of oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania suspected of leaking methane Try to fathom these numbers: 280,000 and 970,000 abandoned oil and gas wells .. and if only a slight amount are leaking methane, that is not at all trivial. Seattle hiking expert vanishes on Mount Rainier. I want to believe: Medieval Woodcut Shows UFO Battle Over Nuremberg Germany, 1561? Update: Officials still baffled by mystery lights over Southern California.. Megan Fox will not let her children go online until they are teenagers.. Anger in Santa Barbara over investigators handling Elliot Rodgers murders.. This is what the AP reports: "It's not clear how the slightly built Rodger was able to overpower the three. Rodger was randomly assigned to share the Isla Vista apartment with Hong and Wang. Chen was visiting the pair on May 23. In a joint interview, the victims' parents told the Washington Post (http://wapo.st/1ptrsTS) they visited the crime scene and saw no blood on the walls or ceiling. Police had removed a 6-by-5 foot piece of carpeting in one bedroom and a swath of vinyl flooring around the toilet had been cut. They said the limited amount of material removed from the apartment suggest the killings were confined to a small space." Did Matt Drudge abandon Twitter? Drudge also took his link for Twitter off of its main page.. NEWS ROUNDUP ARCHIVE |