The House GOP majority has decided that its final act before the summer recess will be to take its 40th vote to repeal all or part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. This time, Republicans will vote to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from playing any role in implementing the law, which would effectively gut the measure — in some parallel universe…

Are aircraft carrier strike groups still the most effective, and cost-effective, way of projecting power? Are humans still required in the cockpit of warplanes? While the Navy may need its own small army, called the Marines, does the Navy’s small army really need its own air force?

The biggest culprit: higher temperatures. Out of 27 modern societies studied, all 27 showed a positive relationship between higher temperatures and violence…

With a pat on the back from the governor, the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority has talked itself and others in Lancaster County GOP circles into floating more than $130 million in bonds for a notoriously bad Harrisburg incinerator valued under $50 million, and buried in toxic waste.

Snowden has legal status in Russia for one year, Kucherena said, but the attorney would not disclose his location, citing security reasons…

“It is not your job to tell the Office of Attorney General — an independent agency — what its duties and obligations are,” Kane’s first deputy, Adrian King, told Corbett’s general counsel, James Schultz, in the letter.

The measure is backed by the government of President Jose Mujica, who says it will remove profits from drug dealers and divert users from harder drugs.

“What has become of the court’s usual restraint?” Ginsburg admonished her conservative colleagues, whose 5-4 ruling rendered impotent the voting rights law’s most powerful tool against racial discrimination…

Investigators told a preliminary hearing at the Court of Justice of Galicia that Mr Garzon 52, only slammed on the brakes “seconds before the crash”. They said he was answering a call from the state rail company, Renfe, and consulting a paper document at the time. The driver is charged with negligent homicide.

Additional new research shows teens who abuse their girlfriends and boyfriends often share a past as middle-school bullies.

HUFFINGTON POST: …So how bad was it? Really, really bad: The economists say a “conservative” estimate of the damage is $14 trillion, or roughly one year’s U.S. gross domestic product. This is based on how much output was lost during the crisis and Great Recession, along with all the damage done to potential future economic growth.

Prosecutors showed enough evidence during a two-day preliminary hearing to warrant a trial for ex-President Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley, District Judge William Wenner concluded.

Gov. Tom Corbett’s Office of Administration has overruled the Liquor Control Board and will allow staff attorney Alan Kennedy-Shaffer to write a column for a trade journal.