Today’s Top 10

Here’s ten items, including some under-the radar stories, that you should not miss.

Today’s Must Reads

Here’s ten items, including some under-the radar-stories, that you should not miss:

Federal Court Rules Bulk Collection Of Phone Records By NSA Likely Violates Constitution: Founding Fathers ‘Would Be Aghast’: A federal judge has ruled that the “wholesale collection of the phone record metadata” of all U.S. citizens — a program exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden — likely violates the 4th Amendment and is unconstitutional.

The Four Questions ’60 Minutes’ Forgot To Ask The NSA: Reporter John Miller gets slammed by social media for not asking NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander these kinds of tough questions.

U.S. Transfers Two Detainees In Step Towards An Empty Guantanamo: Two more transfers drop the total number being held at the facility to 160.

Church Leaders Shame Catholic University For Accepting Koch Dollars: “The Koch brothers are billionaire industrialists who fund organizations that advance public policies that directly contradict Catholic teaching on a range of moral issues from economic justice to environmental stewardship,” the group writes.

Pennsylvania School Tries To Kick Out Two Students After Their Families Became Homeless: After two students and their family lost their house to foreclosure and were forced to live at a campground on the edge of town, the school district no longer considers them to be residents of the school district.

How The Sports World Remembered Newtown: Multiple athletes marked the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting this weekend.

The ThinkProgress Year In Culture: The Best — And Worst — Books Of 2013: The biggest lightning rods, most revealing non-fiction, smartest young adult novel, and worst book of 2013.

What Megyn Kelly Did — And Didn’t — Learn From The Reaction To Her White Santa Segment: At least now she knows that Jesus isn’t white. But Megyn Kelly’s defensive response to her critics suggests a profound and ongoing racial insecurity.

Is The GOP Becoming Gentler And Kinder Ahead Of The 2014 Elections?: Their rhetoric may be less incendiary, but the policy is just as extreme.

Alps Warming At Double The Average Global Rate, New Study Confirms: Glaciologists have found a 2,600-year-old leaf that offers further evidence of the rapid climactic changes taking place in areas of high elevation that have been frozen for millennia.

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