Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
- SUPREME COURT DEALS BLOW TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
By a 6-2 majority, the court declares that state voters can outlaw using race as a factor in college admissions.
- PRO-RUSSIAN GUNMEN HOLD AMERICAN JOURNALIST HOSTAGE
Vice News reporter Simon Ostrovsky was kidnapped in Ukraine's eastern city of Slovyansk.
- SOUTH KOREAN CAPTAIN'S IMAGE AT ODDS WITH HANDLING OF DISASTER
One colleague calls ferry Capt. Lee Joon-seok the nicest person on board. How did the man with a sterling reputation and glittering gold epaulets abandon a sinking ship full of teenagers?
- CAIRO BOMB KILLS SENIOR SECURITY OFFICER
A brigadier general dies in the latest attack against Egypt's police force.
- WHERE OBAMA SEEKS TO LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
The president's Asian tour aims to reassure partners about U.S. commitment to region, while balancing power of a more assertive China.
- STOWAWAY WENT UNDETECTED FOR HOURS AT AIRPORT
Surveillance video shows teen who flew to Hawaii in wheel well of jetliner was on San Jose airfield seven hours before flight departed.
- MICHIGAN MAN FOURTH IN US TO GET 'BIONIC EYE'
After years of living with Robert Pontz's blindness, a retinal prosthesis helps him see, prompting his wife to say something she never thought she'd say.
- VATICAN SET TO CANONIZE REVOLUTIONARY PONTIFF ALONG WITH JOHN PAUL II
John XXIII, fondly remembered as the "Good Pope," ushered in a modern Catholic Church in the 1960s.
- WHY CALIFORNIA'S DEMOCRATS ARE DIVIDED
In the nation's most populous and ethnically diverse state-the first to ban using race and ethnicity in college admissions-debate unfolds about reinstating affirmative action.
- HOW A TWITTER REQUEST BY THE NYPD BACKFIRED
The city's police department asked people to send their photos with officers using #myNYPD. Many tweeted pictures of police brutality instead.