Time.com - After a five-month search for a church home, the Obamas choose Evergreen Chapel at Camp David, the same one the Bushes attended

AP - Homeless teenagers at a central Colorado shelter are feeling the effect of the government's economic stimulus package. It's the feeling of a dentist's drill.

AP - Facing a rare defeat, President Barack Obama put a big dose of political capital on the line and scored a major victory just when he needed one.

AP - A Chechen terrorist group with ties to the late warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing attack on a North Caucasus regional leader that killed three, according to a statement posted on a rebel-linked Web site Sunday.

AP - Despite questions about the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election and his belligerent anti-American rhetoric, the White House remains open to discussions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.

AFP - The ruling centre left coalition of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner lost control of the country's Congress in key mid-term elections.

AP - It's Justice David Souter's last day on the Supreme Court and he'll be ruling on a case familiar to the woman nominated to replace him.

AFP - The European Union vowed Sunday to meet any harassment of diplomats in Iran with a 'strong and collective response' after eight British embassy staff in Tehran were arrested.

AP - Britain's foreign secretary categorically denied Sunday that his country had helped foment postelection discontent in Iran.

Bloomberg - June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Lawmakers working to overhaul the U.S. health-care system face a pressure-filled July after leaving town this week without resolving the biggest questions dividing Democrats and Republicans.

AFP - Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's ruling centre-left coalition lost control of the Congress in key mid-term elections.

AP - Heavy rains are flooding southern parts of the Czech Republic, with mudslides damaging houses and roads in the region.

AP - The European Union wants to restart talks on Iran's nuclear program, the bloc's top foreign policy official said Sunday, even as its foreign ministers condemned the country for its crackdown on demonstrators and rights groups.

Time.com - The Obama Administration and Israel's Netanyahu government are deadlocked over Washington's demand that Israel freeze all construction in its settlements on occupied land. The turmoil in Iran could help Netanyahu deflect pressure

AP - The Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four of its princes over charitable donations that were allegedly funneled to al-Qaida.

AP - The Supreme Court has left in place a court order barring Missouri from enforcing a law limiting protests near funerals.

AP - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the National Football League and its 32 teams can enter an exclusive licensing deal with a maker of team jerseys and other gear without violating federal antitrust law.

AP - Hollywood studios and television networks have lost a Supreme Court bid to block the use of a new digital video recorder system that could make it cheaper and easier for viewers to record shows and watch them when they want, without commercials.

AFP - New UN sanctions intended to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear program will have an 'impact' when they take full force, the top US envoy to the United Nations has said.

AP - The French capital's spring-summer 2010 menswear displays wound down Sunday with a harder-than-usual silhouette from romantic label Lanvin, a retro rocker at British dandy Paul Smith and a sheer, shorn look at Dior Homme that sparked catty rumors about the possible departure of the luxury house's designer, Kris Van Assche.

Time.com - The military coup in Honduras is not just a local matter; the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya is the first test of the fledging friendship between the U.S. and Latin America

AP - Aiming to keep the focus on climate change legislation, President Barack Obama is ready to talk about making lamps and lighting equipment use less energy.

AP - The Supreme Court has failed to decide on whether a scathing documentary about Hillary Rodham Clinton that was shown during the presidential race should be regulated as if it were a campaign ad.

AP - Justice David Souter made a habit of avoiding the limelight during nearly two decades in Washington.

AP - Hollywood studios and television networks lost their bid Monday for the Supreme Court to block the use of a new digital video recorder system that could make it cheaper and easier for viewers to record shows and watch them when they want, without commercials.

AP - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a child custody dispute between a Texas mother and a British father that tests the boundaries of an international treaty.

AP - Inside the studios of BBC Persian television, dozens of journalists have been working around the clock at their computers and telephones, trying to report the news to Iran — or, according to the government in Tehran, stirring up trouble.

AP - Northern Ireland's disarmament chief announced Monday he has witnessed a major weapons handover by the Ulster Volunteer Force, an outlawed group that terrorized Irish Catholics for decades — but he cannot confirm if the shadowy gang has surrendered all of its arsenal.

CQPolitics.com - The Supreme Court ruled in favor Monday of a group of white Connecticut firefighters in a reverse discrimination suit, overruling a lower court decision that had been joined by Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the high court.

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States believes the unrest in Honduras 'has evolved into a coup' and that officials believe the situation needs close watching.

Reuters - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez faced a new political landscape on Monday after losing control of Congress in a mid-term election as voters rejected her combative style and economic policies.

AP - Complete with new gray hairs and two bodyguards, a wax version of President Barack Obama took a trip Monday to the Eiffel Tower.

AP - Early in the last century, after an empire's fall, the founder of Turkey set his new nation on a westward course. For Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Europe was worthy of a pedestal, a model of how to be modern.

CQPolitics.com - Critics of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor seized on Monday's high court ruling overturning a decision she'd joined in a high-profile reverse discrimination case, presaging questions likely to arise at her Senate confirmation hearings next month.

Bloomberg - June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Lawmakers working to overhaul the U.S. health-care system face a pressure-filled July after leaving town this week without resolving the biggest questions dividing Democrats and Republicans.

AP - Spinning a Supreme Court decision in its favor, the White House said Monday that the justices' reversal of a ruling that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge proves that she follows judicial precedent.

AP - A federal judge who issued a groundbreaking order allowing military detainees in Afghanistan to challenge in U.S. civilian courts their confinement says that right doesn't apply to an Afghan prisoner.

AP - President Barack Obama says the weekend ouster of Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya was a 'not legal' coup and that he remains the country's president.

AP - The doctor had barely pulled away the needle when a blister appeared on Tracey Berg-Fulton's abdomen: An experimental shot was revving up the 24-year-old's immune system — part of a bold quest to create a vaccine-like therapy for diabetes.

AP - The government has made public a list of 26 communities in 10 states where coal ash dumps pose a potential high hazard to public health and safety.

Bloomberg - June 29 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. House Democrats cheered when they won a vote to impose the nation’s first limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. Senate Democrats didn’t join the party.

AP - A coalition of advocacy groups wants three attorneys to be disbarred for approving and advocating the CIA's harsh interrogation program.

AP - Next time you're in Britain, check your change.

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking after a meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, said on Monday he was confident the two countries could eventually get a free trade agreement approved by the U.S. Congress.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — In a rebuke of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal bank regulator erred in quashing efforts by New York state to combat the kind of predatory mortgage lending that triggered the nation's financial crisis.

CQPolitics.com - The Supreme Court wants to hear a new round of arguments in a closely watched case about how nonprofits can weigh in during political campaigns, and has signalled that it might broaden the case to cover print advertising in addition to TV programming.

AP - The Supreme Court's reversal Monday of a racial discrimination decision endorsed by Sonia Sotomayor as a federal appeals judge provided fresh ammunition for her critics two weeks before her Senate confirmation hearing, but it's unlikely to sink her nomination.

AP - (AP) — The Obama administration is proposing to strengthen a key air pollution health standard.

AP - Mainstream Democrats close to Barack Obama are warning Republicans about insisting on too many changes to the president's health care overhaul, saying the Democratic-controlled Congress will move ahead without GOP input if they do.

AP - The Supreme Court on Monday:

AP - Russian gamblers are placing their final bets before casinos close down for good in Moscow and other big cities.

AFP - President Barack Obama said Monday he was confident the United States and Colombia would ultimately reach a deal on a stalled free trade pact, after talks with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Congress and the White House are heading toward a showdown over the future of the F-22 jet fighter, as the Senate plans to consider adding seven more of the planes while the Obama administration warns that a veto is likely over the issue.

CQPolitics.com - The Supreme Court wants to hear a new round of arguments in a closely watched case about how nonprofits can weigh in during political campaigns, and has signalled that it might broaden the case to cover print advertising in addition to TV programming.

AP - The Obama administration is developing plans to seek up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to step up the military's counter-drug efforts along the Mexican border, senior administration officials said Monday.

AP - Two Republican senators asked Monday for a congressional hearing to look at whether President Barack Obama acted appropriately when he fired the national service agency's inspector general earlier this month.

AP - A state Supreme Court panel will hear oral arguments on O.J. Simpson's bid to get out of a Nevada prison pending his appeal to overturn a conviction in an armed hotel room heist, officials said Monday.

AP - U.S. lawmakers and their Russian counterparts have met to discuss arms control, North Korea and other international issues, setting the stage for President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow next week.

Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Myanmar this week to urge its military leaders to press ahead with democratic reforms and free all political prisoners, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Monday.

McClatchy Newspapers - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Maria Belen Chapur, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's Argentine girlfriend, is feeling down and hoping that the harsh glare of the public spotlight will pass quickly.

CQPolitics.com - The Health and Human Services Department Monday rescinded three controversial Bush administration regulations governing Medicaid and said it would postpone and possibly change or rescind a fourth.

AP - President Barack Obama dismissed critics of his ambitious agenda as naysayers on Monday and vowed to have health care, energy and financial regulation initiatives in place by the end of the year.

AP - The Group of Eight leaders meeting next week in central Italy will discuss possible sanctions against Iran, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Monday.