Law & Society

Silver's announcement would have been met with the same round of applause accorded to the expected draft picks if not for the fact that the center from Fresno, California had made his own announcement last week that he will not be playing professional basketball anymore due to a genetic disorder.

The Guardian reported that Russian national team manager Fabio Capello had blamed the green laser beam flashed from the stadium crowd on goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev as the reason for their 1-1 draw against the Algerians and their subsequent elimination from the tournament.

Buzzfeed reported that in the CNBC live segment "Squawk On The Street" today, the panelists, including New York Times columnist James Stewart, discussed about the lack of openly-gay CEOS in mega-companies. Stewart, who wrote a column about former BP CEO John Browne, told the panel his struggle working on his article about gays in top executive positions,