Wednesday,  June 26, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 340 • 31 of 40

(Continued from page 30)


• 3. CHAOS WITH ABORTION VOTE AFTER FILIBUSTER
• Screaming protesters prevented Texas Republicans from passing a restrictive abortion ban before a midnight deadline.

• 4. WHAT SOUTHERN STATES PLAN AFTER VOTING RIGHTS DECISION
• Some pledged to pass laws requiring voters to show photo IDs and others want to set earlier hours after the Supreme Court freed states from federal oversight.

• 5. 'NYET' ON TURNING OVER SNOWDEN
• Putin acknowledges the NSA leaker is at a Moscow airport, and rejected U.S. pleas to extradite him.

• 6. DEMOCRATS HANG ON TO KERRY SEAT
• Rep. Ed Markey defeated Republican Gabriel Gomez, and the state's Democrats didn't repeat the upset of three years ago when Republican Scott Brown succeeded Sen. Edward Kennedy.

• 7. AUSTRALIA PRIME MINISTER OUSTED
• Predecessor Kevin Rudd defeated Julia Gillard in a party leadership ballot she called for after her authority was challenged

• 8. 'KING OF COMMODITIES' DIES
• Marc Rich, a trader indicted on fraud and tax evasion charges, was pardoned by Bill Clinton at the end of his presidency. He died in Switzerland at 78.

• 9. TEXAS TO MAKE HISTORY
• The nation's busiest death penalty state plans to execute its 500th inmate tonight -- a woman convicted of killing her neighbor with a candelabra in the 1990s.

• 10. IS PAULA DEEN TOAST?
• The food diva is expected to speak on the "Today" show today, but experts say she has already damaged her reputation in the fallout from her admission of using racial slurs.



(Continued on page 32)

© 2013 Groton Daily Independent • To send correspondence, click here.