Citing the Syrian Government’s “manifest” failure to protect its population, two senior United Nations officials today called on the international community to take immediate, decisive action to meet its responsibility to protect civilians in the country from further atrocities.

MILESTONE: 2000 US TROOPS KILLED. Toll of Afghanistan War Mounting.
The war has cost US much in lives lost and funds spent. Meanwhile, President Karzai is calling on Pakistan for help in ending Afghan war.

EGYPTIANS EXPECTING A COURT DECISION. Election's Final Outcome.
Egyptian protesters shout anti-military slogans and protest in front in front of Egypt's highest court, as massive amounts of police and troops brace while the jurists prepare to rule on whether it is constitutional to ban regime figures from the election.

PROSECUTION WINDING DOWN. Sandusky Criminal Case.

The United Nations humanitarian arm has provided nearly $10 million in fresh funding in recent weeks to assist Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.

The allocation from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will enable UN agencies and their partners support life-saving assistance, including shelter, emergency food aid, water and sanitation, and clothing, for Syrians uprooted by the fighting in their homeland.

Friends and neighbors who are taking to the road this weekend will find rejoice. The prices at the pump are moving in a different direction. They are actually lower that they were last month.

US consumers are finally feeling less pinched by gas prices. The average national price for a gallon of gas is $3.54, which is 40 cents cheaper than the year's peak price in early April.