Obama not willing to make deals to get Snowden
DAKAR - President Barack Obama said he would not start "wheeling and dealing" with China and Russia over a U.S. request to extradite former American spy agency contractor Edward Snowden. Full Article
Daughter says Mandela 'still there', raps media 'vultures'
PRETORIA - Nelson Mandela's eldest daughter lambasted foreign media "vultures" for violating her father's privacy as he lay critically ill in hospital, and said the former South African president was still clinging to life on Thursday. | Video
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Myanmar gives blessing to anti-Muslim monks
YANGON - The Buddhist extremist movement known as 969 portrays itself as a grassroots creed. But a Reuters examination traces 969's origins to an official in the dictatorship that once ran Myanmar, and which is the predecessor of today's reformist government. Full Article
Supreme Court in no rush over gay marriage
WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on whether gay men and lesbians have a fundamental right to marry, it delivered an implicit message to those seeking such a right: Don't hurry back. Full Article
NYPD 'stop and frisk' limited in hit to Bloomberg
NEW YORK - The New York City Council passed two measures to restrain police powers in direct defiance of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has defended procedures such as "stop and frisk" as necessary to fight crime. Full Article
Europe pushes cost of bank failure on investors
BRUSSELS - The European Union agreed to force investors and wealthy savers to share the costs of future bank failures, moving closer to drawing a line under years of taxpayer-funded bailouts that have prompted public outrage. Full Article
'Sopranos' star Gandolfini mourned
NEW YORK - Fellow actors mourned actor James Gandolfini as a great craftsman at his funeral, a week after the 51-year-old star of the HBO television show "The Sopranos" died of a heart attack while visiting Rome. Full Article
Japan's whaling is not science, expert tells court
THE HAGUE - The Japanese practice of catching and killing nearly 1,000 whales a year cannot be justified as science, an expert witness told the World Court in a case Australia has brought against Japan. Full Article
Breakingviews: Wall Street time warp
June 27 - Jeffrey Goldfarb and Breakingviews columnists compare the rapid rise in interest rates to similar occurrences in 1994 and 2003.
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Immigration reform's new pitchman
With passage in the Senate all but a done deal, immigration reform’s future in the House may depend on last year’s GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. Video
Marriage equality: Not for states to decide
The Constitution tells us — in no uncertain terms — that marriage equality is not apportioned based on popularity or political convenience. Commentary
Behind the abdication of Qatar’s emir
The emir’s abdication when Qatar is thriving moves the country into the hands of a new generation with minimal dissent, while giving his son a golden chance to bolster his own legitimacy and credentials. Commentary
Gutting the landmark civil rights legislation
The chief justice is wrong: Almost 94 percent of all voting rights actions from 1957 to 2006 occurred in jurisdictions now subject to federal oversight. Commentary
A victory for gays and for families
In eviscerating DOMA, Justice Kennedy also wrote a stirring defense of the very institution that many conservatives believe is threatened by gay marriage: the American family. Commentary
Big wins for the freedom to marry - now let's finish the job
Until the Obama administration and Congress do their parts to implement the court’s ruling, applying the “place of celebration” standard, the United States will remain a patchwork - and marriages will sputter in and out like cellphone service. Commentary
Salaries good, big bonuses bad
Straight salaries account for less than a fifth of top executive pay. The rest comes in bonuses, shares and perks. But complicated and contingent pay arrangements make little sense. They rely on wrong ideas about motivation. Commentary
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