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• The nuclear weapons corps behind the "Big Sticks," as some people call the 60-foot-tall Minuteman 3 missiles, have been getting the short end of the stick, and so has their mission: the AP finds equipment necessary for their support is aging into obsolescence.
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• 3. PRESIDENT TO REQUEST $2B IN AID FOR IMMIGRATION CRISIS
• Obama will seek just the money and not--at least, for now-- the legal changes necessary to more quickly send home unaccompanied children arriving in droves at the border.
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• 4. SCIENTISTS HELP THE BLIND WITH A SEEING-EYE RING
• The visually impaired can wear the audio reading device on their index finger and scan written material with it which is then read to them in real time.
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• 5. HOW PRAGMATISM SHAPES SHIFTING ASIAN DIPLOMACY
• Old feuds between the continent's powers run deep--but their self-interest often runs deeper, leading to an ever-changing array of alliances.
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• 6. DEFENSE WRAPS CASE IN PISTORIUS TRIAL
• The court will hear final arguments in the case against the former Olympian next month.
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• 7. WHERE UKRAINE FIGHTING COULD ERUPT NEXT
• Separatist militants driven from eastern towns by the Ukrainian army are regrouping in Donetsk, a major industrial city of 1 million where pro-Russia rebels have declared independence.
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• 8. FROM HOPE AND CHANGE TO HOPING FOR CHANGE
• President Obama muses about the dangers of cynicism in major public appearances in a markedly different tone from his days as a candidate, when he rallied millions with ambitious aspirations.
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• 9. RETAIL POT STORES OPENING IN WASHINGTON
• The state's first two dozen recreational marijuana outlets will be able to start selling cannabis Tuesday morning.
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• 10. JUDGE OKS DEAL TO PAY FORMER NFL PLAYERS FOR CONCUSSION

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