A major insurer of schools has declined to continue offering coverage to Kansas schools after passage of a new state law allowing teachers and staff to carry concealed firearms on campus.
The company, EMC Insurance Cos currently covers between 85% and 90% of Kansas school districts.
Egypt’s top cleric, who stood beside top general announcing Morsi overthrow, goes into seclusion, warns of civil war.
Not everyone happy about “White History Month” parade float in North Carolina town.
Many critics have unfavorably compared Edward Snowden to Daniel Ellsberg because he fled the country rather than stand trial. But Ellsberg now says that’s not a fair comparison because “The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago.”
Both as a rhetorical question and a real question I’m curious just what Ellsberg means by that. His basic argument is that he was able to stay out on bail and that wouldn’t have been an option for Snowden. On the other hand, the White House at the time was running a special operations team against Ellsberg out of the White House, including breaking into his psychiatrist’s office and at least some discussions of having him killed. So I’m not sure we can call those the glory days.
John Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, hospitalized in critical but stable condition.
Still no word from San Francisco on casualties in the Asiana Airlines crash at SFO some two hours ago, but reports from the scene suggest there are survivors. Remarkable considering the images of the burned-out plane on the runway.
Also remarkable: this is the first major commercial airline crash in the U.S. in more than a decade.
Multiple reports that Mohamed ElBaradei will become Egypt’s new Prime Minister.
Presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela each express readiness to grant Snowden asylum.
Boy hit by stray Fourth of July bullet dies.