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    • Chelsea Clinton's wedding: An instant guide (The Week)
      The Week - Neither Chelsea Clinton nor her fiancé, Marc Mezvinsky, are speaking publicly about their plans to wed this weekend, and Chelsea's tabloid-savvy parents have offered few clues. Yet, America being America, the internet has been abuzz with questions and rumors about Chelsea's upcoming nuptials — and the first glimpse of her "sizable" engagement ring on April 25 (not to mention reports that Bill's dieting) have only fueled the speculation. Here's what's been reported to date:
    • Ariz. governor considers changing immigration law (AP)

      Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, right, smiles as Max Wilson, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors representing District 4, pats the governor on the back at a news conference in Glendale, Ariz., Friday, July 30, 2010. Brewer and Arizona Sen. John McCain held the news conference in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale to applaud a U.S. Air Force decision to base new F-35 combat jets at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, but the event abruptly ended when the barrage of questions were regarding the Arizona immigration law and the next steps the governor was taking in the court battle. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - The fight over Arizona's immigration law showed no signs of letting up Friday as the federal judge who blunted its force faced threats and the Republican governor who signed it considered changes to address any faults.


    • Chinese activists speak out for jailed Uighur (AP)
      AP - Some of China's most well-known activists are circulating an open letter protesting the 15-year prison term for a Uighur journalist snared in tensions that followed the country's worst ethnic rioting in decades.
    • Kingpin's death could mean more violence in Mexico (AP)

      A soldier stands guard on the roof of the house where, according to Mexico's Defense Ministry, a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Ignacio Coronel Villareal, aka Nacho, was killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, Friday July 30, 2010. Soldiers killed Coronel on Thursday in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico's most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organized crime in 2006. (AP Photo/Claudio Cruz)AP - One of the world's most powerful drug cartels took a major hit when soldiers killed a top kingpin in a gunbattle, and his death will likely will mean more violence as factions fight for the cocaine and methamphetamine empire that he left behind.


    • Rams, top pick Bradford agree to $78 million deal (AP)

      FILE - In this May 18, 2010, file photo, St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford tosses a ball during football practice at the team's training facility in St. Louis. The Rams are optimistic they'll sign No. 1 overall pick Sam Bradford soon, perhaps by Thursday, July 29, 2010, when quarterbacks and rookies are due for their first training camp workout. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)AP - No. 1 overall draft pick Sam Bradford agreed to a six-year, $78 million contract with the St. Louis Rams on Friday night, with $50 million in guaranteed money.


    • Priest who blessed Morales found with cocaine (Reuters)
      Reuters - The Aymara priest who blessed Bolivian President Evo Morales at an inauguration ceremony four years ago has been arrested in possession of 530 pounds (240 kg) of cocaine, police said Thursday.
    • Novelist Anne Rice says she's leaving Christianity (AP)

      FILE - In this April 25, 2006 file photo, writer Anne Rice arrives to the opening night of the new Broadway musical 'Lestat,' in New York. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, file)AP - Anne Rice has had a religious conversion: She's no longer a Christian.


    • Heidi Montag files for divorce from Spencer Pratt (AP)

      FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, Heidi Montag, left, and Spencer Pratt pose at a book signing event for their book 'How To Be Famous' at Borders Books in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)AP - Fifteen months after saying "I do," reality TV stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are headed for divorce. The 23-year-old starlet and plastic surgery devotee filed for divorce Friday in Santa Monica, Calif., citing irreconcilable differences.


    • Clintons emerge in NY on eve of Chelsea's wedding (AP)

      Bill and Hillary Clinton leave a party in honor of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky Friday, July 30, 2010 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married, drawing crowds of onlookers Friday afternoon as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion.


    • French woman admits to suffocating her 8 newborns (AP)

      Reporters are seen in front of the house where French police found the corpses of eight newborn babies, in Villers-au-Tertre, northern France, Thursday, July 29, 2010. A judicial official said they have detained the parents of the dead babies, both in their mid-40s, and that the corpses were found on two different parts of their property.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter.


    • Wealthy Dallas brothers become SEC fraud target (AP)

      FILE ** In this file photo of Sept. 2, 2008 Sam Wyly poses at his Explore book store in Aspen, Colo. Famed Dallas billionaire investors Sam and Charles Wyly made $550 million in undisclosed profits through 13 years of insider trading in the shares of companies on whose boards they served, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit filed Thursday July 29, 2010 .(AP Photo/Ed Kosmicki,File)AP - Brothers Charles and Sam Wyly, born a year apart during the Great Depression, almost always have been joined at the hip.


    • Wizards re-sign free agent swingman Howard (Reuters)
      Reuters - The Washington Wizards have re-signed free agent Josh Howard, a former All-Star swingman who joined the team late last season.
    • Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police (AP)

      French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech in Grenoble, French Alps, Friday, July 30, 2010. Nicolas Sarkozy came in Grenoble to install the new prefect after confrontations between youths and policemen, which came after a local resident suspected in the armed robbery of a casino was killed while fleeing police. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a "national war" on delinquency.


    • Mexico's Drug Wars: Finally Going After Number One (Time.com)
      Time.com - Felipe CalderÓn has been criticized for not going hard enough after the Sinaloa cartel. Now he's started but there's more bloodshed to come
    • Dead whale found pinned to Alaska cruise ship (Reuters)

      A dead whale, believed to be a juvenile humpback, is pictured pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises liner near Juneau, in this National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration photograph taken on July 28, 2010 and released on July 29. REUTERS/NOAA/HandoutReuters - A dead whale was discovered pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises luxury liner near Juneau, the third such incident involving the company's Alaska fleet in a decade, officials said on Thursday.


    • Vicar conducted 360 sham marriages (Reuters)

      Wedding bell balloons fly from a storefront in Rhinebeck, New York, July 26, 2010. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - A vicar was found guilty on Thursday of conducting hundreds of sham marriages between African nationals and cash-strapped eastern Europeans to allow illegal immigrants to gain residency in Britain.


    • Giant South Dakota hailstone breaks US records (AP)

      This photo taken July 24, 2010 provided by the NOAA National Weather Service shows a hailstone that was found by a ranch hand in Vivian, S.D., on June 23, 2010. The hailstone has set U.S records. It measured 8 inches in diameter and weighed 1 pound, 15 ounces. The previous record for diameter was 7 inches for a hailstone found in Aurora, Neb., in 2003. The previous record for weight was 1.67 pounds for a stone in Coffeyville, Kan., in 1970. (AP Photo/National Weather Service)AP - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a giant hailstone that fell in central South Dakota has broken U.S. records, even though the man who found it says it melted somewhat while waiting to be evaluated.


    • Cardinals beat Pirates 1-0 in 10 innings (AP)

      St. Louis Cardinals' Matt Holliday, right, connects for a single as Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Erik Kratz, center, and home plate umpire Adrian Johnson, left, watch in the second inning of a baseball game, Friday, July 30, 2010, in St. Louis.(AP Photo/Tom Gannam)AP - Brendan Ryan's broken-bat infield hit in the 10th inning drove in the game's lone run and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 on Friday night.


    • The Most Dangerous Things in a National Park (LiveScience.com)
      LiveScience.com - A fatal bear attack in a Montana campground near Yellowstone National Park prompted a flurry of concerned phone calls to the park this week, but bear attacks are far from the most common danger to park visitors.
    • US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs (AP)

      NATO and US soldiers are seen standing guard in Kabul. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war.
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