Merkel, Cameron clash over who should fill top EU job
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/merkel-cameron-clash-over-who-should-fill-top-eu-job/2014/06/19/de9b4cd6-d484-4d24-9804-c903435ddcf6_story.html
Cameron, who has called for a referendum on whether Britain should leave the E.U. by 2017, has openly warned that a Juncker victory would compromise the commission's ?credibility.? Privately, according to Germany's Der Spiegel news magazine, Cameron ...
Gerry Goffin, lyricist who co-wrote seminal '60s hits, dies at 75
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/gerry-goffin-lyricist-who-co-wrote-seminal-60s-hits-dies-at-75/2014/06/20/424c2c1e-f7fe-11e3-8aa9-dad2ec039789_story.html
Gerry Goffin, who conjured lyrics to some of the seminal pop-rock hits of the 1960s with his then-wife, songwriter Carole King, before his affairs, prodigious drug use and mental breakdown derailed their relationship, died June 19 at his home in Los ...
People who are making sense about Iraq
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2014/0620/People-who-are-making-sense-about-Iraq
Volunteers, who have joined the Iraqi Army to fight against predominantly Sunni militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, carry weapons during a parade in the streets in the Iraqi city of Baquba June 20, 2014. Reuters. View Caption ...
West Windsor grandfather who kidnapped grandson sentenced to three years ...
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2014/06/west_windsor_grandfather_who_kidnapped_grandson_sentenced_to_three_years_probation.html
TRENTON ? The West Windsor man who kidnapped his 5-year-old grandson and fled with him to South Carolina was sentenced today to three years' probation. Morris Lundy, 52, faced up to seven years in state prison, but Superior Court Judge Gerald ...
Law targeting homeless who use cars as homes invalidated
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Law-targeting-homeless-who-use-cars-as-homes-5566057.php
The Los Angeles ordinance, passed in 1983, has been used in recent years to arrest homeless people who were merely sitting in cars that contained food, clothing and other household supplies, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday.
Most who bought insurance on Affordable Care Act exchanges were previously ...
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/06/most_affordable_care_act_reach.html
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama ? Fifty-seven percent of people who bought health insurance through exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act previously lacked insurance, a survey has found. obamacare.JPG (file photo). The survey conducted for the Kaiser ...
Dr. Lorna Wing, Who Broadened Views of Autism, Dies at 85
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/health/dr-lorna-wing-who-broadened-views-of-autism-dies-at-85.html
Dr. Lorna Wing, a British psychiatrist who was instrumental in identifying autism as a mental disorder of many gradations, affecting people across the spectrum of intelligence ? and who gave autism in its mildest form the name Asperger's syndrome ...
Stephanie Kwolek, Chemist Who Created Kevlar, Dies At 90
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/20/323951708/stephanie-kwolek-chemist-who-created-kevlar-dies-at-90
Stephanie Kwolek, a DuPont chemist who invented the synthetic fibers used in Kevlar body armor, has died at the age of 90, her colleagues said Friday. A fellow chemist told The Associated Press that Kwolek died Wednesday at a Wilmington, Del., hospital ...
