Shortly before 2 a.m. today, one U.S. Border Patrol agent, Nicolas Ivie, 30, was killed near Naco, Arizona approximately 8-10 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border. Authorities suspect drug smugglers ambushed three Border Patrol agents on horseback when they responded to tripped sensors agents place underground to alert agents of illegal entry into the U.S.

Brent Cagen, of the Tucson sector Border Patrol released a statement saying, “Border Patrol agents on patrol in Naco, Ariz., were involved in a shooting Tuesday at 1:50 a.m. MST. One agent died from his injuries and another, who sustained non-life threatening wounds, was airlifted to a hospital.” A third agent at the scene escaped with no injuries.

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) wins (again) the most significant victory of his congressional career. He has taken his pet issue since the 1970s–the unwarranted power and secrecy of the Federal Reserve–from something pretty much no one but him cared about six years ago, through a bestselling book and mass movement by 2009, the second time he’s gotten the House of Representatives to vote to widen the government’s powers to audit the Fed’s activities.

Huffington Post with details about the vote  , and on Paul’s Democratic ally equally upset with the Fed’s lack of transparency, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio):

During a roll call of states at the Republican National Convention yesterday, an attendee was caught on a hot mic praising the moment where Ron Paul’s delegate result was accidentally censored as a result of an audio failure. As representatives of Georgia read out their delegate results, Ron Paul’s name and result was lost as a result of a microphone failure.

“Well done! Whoever controlled the microphone did a great job,” one of the RNC attendees standing nearby was caught saying as others around him snickered.

Suspect is black, and possibly gay.

A suspect in the shooting of a security guard at the headquarters of a downtown D.C. conservative Christian lobbying firm criticized the group's anti-gay stance before opening fire, a source tells ABC7.

The shooting took place at the offices of the Family Research Council, which is located at 801 G Street, about a block west of the Verizon Center.

A source tells ABC7's Scott Thuman that the suspect is Floyd Corkin, 28, of Virginia.

Sources say Corkin walked into the Family Research Council and said “It’s not about you, it’s about the policy,” and then shot the guard.

A new study revealed that many professors in the social psychology field allow their anti-conservative bias to influence things like grant making and acceptance of papers. According to the (yet unpublished) study:

"Just over 37 percent of those surveyed said that, given equally qualified candidates for a job, they would support the hiring of a liberal candidate over a conservative candidate. Smaller percentages agreed that a “conservative perspective” would negatively influence their odds of supporting a paper for inclusion in a journal or a proposal for a grant." (The final version of the paper is not yet available, but an early version may be found on the website of the Social Science Research Network.)

Grid failure left more than 300 million people without power in New Delhi and much of northern India for hours on Monday in the worst blackout for more than a decade, highlighting chronic infrastructure woes holding back Asia's third-largest economy.

The lights in Delhi and seven states went out in the early hours, leaving the capital's workers sweltering overnight and then stranded at metro stations in the morning rush hour as trains were cancelled.

These are the shocking injuries suffered by a young man in a savage, random attack on our streets. Kieran Broderick (25) was just yards from his home when he was viciously assaulted by a man armed with a heavy object.

The young man feared for his life as he was knocked to the ground and beaten repeatedly. As his assailtant hit him with what's believed to have been a bottle tied in a sling, two men in the company of the attack stood by watching the incident.

Though Chick-fil-A has come under considerable fire for its documented support of anti-gay Christian organizations, officials for the fast food chain have remained mostly tight-lipped about the controversy -- until now.

In a new interview with the Baptist Press, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy -- the son of company founder S. Truett Cathy -- addresses what the publication describes as his franchise's "support of the traditional family."

Cathy's somewhat glib response: "Well, guilty as charged."

Texas Congressman Ron Paul is urging GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns, claiming it is what the American people want.

Paul told Politico in a candid interview that he isn’t sure why Romney hasn’t released his tax returns yet but says that it would be good for Romney if he did so, peppering in his usual lamenting about the bipartisan nature of both parties.

Samuel Williams was sitting in the Palms Internet Cafe in Ocala, Fla., Friday night when two men, later identified as Davis G. Dawkins, 19, and Duwayne Henderson, also 19, allegedly stormed in brandishing a handgun and a baseball bat.