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June 13, 2013 | | What Gives? The Newark mayor counts two Chabad rabbis as his close friends and advisers. But while they preach universal justice, their stances on Palestinians don't reflect his values. How much longer can Booker, a heavy favorite to be New Jersey's next senator, turn a blind eye? By Peter Beinart. Splitting Up Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch. Murdoch married Wendi Deng in 1999. She is now the chief of strategy for MySpace's operations in China, and briefly became a media sensation in 2011 when she shielded Murdoch from a pie thrown by a heckler during his testimony before the British Parliament over his London newspapers' phone-hacking schemes. The couple have two children together. The Daily Beast's Melinda Liu profiles the unflappable woman behind the mogul. Not Again Here we are again. An impending dangerous derecho, an unusual weather phenomenon following a line of storms, poses a threat Thursday to mid-Atlantic cities, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. After hitting the Midwest and passing through Chicago, pictured at left, the large storm is shifting to the East. Heavy straight-line winds, flooding, and large hail are the main concerns, though the potential of a tornado is also looming. The National Weather Service has issued severe thunderstorm watches through Friday evening.
High Court The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that human genes can't be patented, marking a victory for women at risk of breast and ovarian cancer and doctors and geneticists who argued that the patents would disrupt important biotechnology research. The ruling stemmed from a Utah company, Myriad Genetics, which held an exclusive patent on the genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, that indicate whether a woman was at a higher risk for developing breast or ovarian cancer. The court said that products of nature like genes, unlike invented products, are not eligible for patents. Staggering Syria's been a bloodbath for a while, but it keeps getting worse. According to new United Nations figures, 93,000 people have been killed so far in the country's uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. That's an increase of 30,000 since the last report that covered figures through November 2012, and represents a rate of 5,000 deaths per month. Eighty percent of the deaths were men, though the U.N. has documented 1,700 children killed, and said both Assad's regime and the rebels have used boys and girls as human shields. U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said there were also cases of individual children being killed, as well as entire families at once. | | 
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