Here are today’s top stories in no particular order:
- Twenty are dead after gunmen attacked a Pakistani city with grenades and assault weapons.
- A new video has surfaced that claims to show Vice President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley, a social worker, snorting cocaine.
- Green Day has confirmed that ‘American Idiot’ will be turned into a punk opera for the 2009-2010 season of the Berkeley Repertory Theater.
- Bills in the Texas legislature are aiming to allow guns on college campuses, in the wake of events like the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech.
- In an effort to jump-start a new experiment in U.S. newspaper economics, Detroit newspapers are offering one-time free editions of their papers today.
- Five people were found dead and two injured after an apparent murder-suicide in Santa Clara, California.
- A gunman opened fire in a nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina. At least six people were killed. Local police apprehended the shooter.