Casting about for someone to blame for the Baltimore riots, President Obama singled out two of his favorite targets. He said police departments "have to do some soul searching" and that Republicans are at fault for blocking "investments in urban communities."

Remarks attributed to a senior Iranian cleric might result in a trip to the woodshed for Secretary of State John Kerry. Ayatollah Alam al-Hoda was quoted as saying that during the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks Kerry told iran's foreign minister that he "wished the U.S. had a leader like Iran's supreme leader." A senior administration official called the report absurd.

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The University of California, Berkeley, misused more than $1.8 million in taxpayer funding from the National Science Foundation on unallowale salaries for researchers and alcohol purchases, according to an NSF inspector general's report.