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• 7. WHAT WAS TAKEN OFF MLK MEMORIAL
• An inscription from the civil rights leader's "Drum Major" speech was taken off after critics said it was paraphrased and made King look arrogant.
• 8. WHY COUPLE CHOSE 2-YEAR-OLD AS THEIR BEST MAN
• The leukemia-stricken toddler has been given just weeks to live, so his parents moved their wedding to this Saturday in Pennsylvania so he could attend.
• 9. WHO'S LOOKING AT YOUR MAIL
• The AP's Andrew Miga reports the Postal Services takes pictures of every piece of mail processed in the U.S. That was 160 billion last year.
• 10. 'GLEE' EPISODE WILL ADDRESS ACTOR'S ADDICTION
• Fox didn't say how the hit show would write out the character played by Cory Monteith, who died of a heroin and alcohol overdose last month.
AP News in Brief
Snowden's asylum enrages US, but won't destroy already challenged ties with Russia
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Russia's decision to grant asylum to Edward Snowden has upset the Obama administration and enraged Congress. But if the United States wasn't prepared to scrap its maddeningly difficult relationship with Russia because of missile defense, human rights or Syria's civil war, it's unlikely the 30-year-old National Security Agency leaker alone will sour ties irrevocably between two powers that both have moved past their half-century Cold War for global supremacy.
• After Snowden left the transit zone of Moscow's airport and officially entered Russia on Thursday, the White House declared itself "extremely disappointed" and suggested President Barack Obama would reconsider his autumn summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
• American lawmakers threatened worse, from demanding Russia forfeit its right to host a summit of the world's biggest economies to questioning whether Washington and Moscow can now cooperate at all. Some in Congress have spoken of boycotting next year's Winter Olympics in the southern Russian city of Sochi.
• "Russia's action today is a disgrace and a deliberate effort to embarrass the United States. It is a slap in the face of all Americans," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said. "Now is the time to fundamentally rethink our relationship with Putin's Russia."
• Retaliation against Russia comes at a cost, however. Putin has proved over more than a decade in power that he'll respond to perceived offenses from the (Continued on page 19)
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