Washington, DC - The Little Sisters of the Poor were denied an exemption from Obamacare.  The denial was upheld by a federal court recently.  The president's signature legislation allows for exemptions.  For example, the nation's union leadership balked when they were pressed to conform to the law, but now they are praising the Affordable Care Act perhaps because they were granted the exemptions they sought.

Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry Testimony Opening Remarks Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

West Lafayette, Indiana - Fat should be considered the sixth taste and can be called oleogustus, according to a study from Purdue University.

Houston, Texas - Eighty-two convicted criminal aliens were arrested during a five-day enforcement action which ended Friday and was conducted by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in the Houston area.

New Orleans, Louisiana - An indictment was unsealed today charging a Louisiana woman with offenses related to her sex trafficking of a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney J. Walter Green of the Middle District of Louisiana and Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Anderson of the FBI New Orleans Division.

New York - The World Bank is nudging up its 2015 forecast for crude oil prices from $53 in April to $57 per barrel after oil prices rose 17 percent in the Apr-Jun quarter, according to the Bank’s latest Commodity Markets Outlook, a quarterly update on the state of the international commodity markets.