GREENSBORO, N.C. — They want it all. Every private jet receipt, every handwritten note, every voice-mail transcript.    No scrap of evidence introduced in the four weeks of John Edwards’s corruption trial is too trivial for a second look by the punctilious jury that entered its fifth day of deliberations Thursday in a downtown federal courthouse in this Piedmont region city. During its first four days of deliberations, the jury sent notes to the judge requesting 23 prosecution exhibits, most dealing with the $700,000 that Virginia heiress Rachel “Bunny” Mellon funneled to Edwards’s cohorts while he was running for president and later angling for a vice presidential nod in 2008. But on Thursday, the jury said it wanted more — much more.  Read full article > >

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John Edwards jury wants second look at all the evidence

PHILADELPHIA – When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda , he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts. Read full article > >

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Romney visits inner-city charter school in Philadelphia in outreach to black voters

Egyptians returned to the polls on Thursday, hoping to seize the promise of a popular uprising that defined the Arab spring in an election that could end 15 chaotic months of military rule.

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Egyptians Vote for Second Day in Presidential Election

Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a nuclear submarine early Thursday at a U.S. Navy shipyard in Maine after battling it for hours, according to a statement released by the shipyard.

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Fire on nuclear sub extinguished

At least 10 alleged militants were killed on Thursday when an American drone struck a compound in northwestern Pakistan, government officials said.

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Pakistan Says U.S. Drone Strike Kills Suspected Militants

More than 65 years after it was suppressed by the Army, a powerful and controversial John Huston documentary about soldiers suffering from the psychological wounds of war has been restored by the National Archives and debuts Thursday on the Web. Read full article > >

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John Huston film about WW II soldiers that Army suppressed is restored

Arizona’s top election official said in a radio interview Thursday that it’s “possible” President Obama may not make the state’s November ballot due to unanswered questions about his birth certificate. Read full article > >

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‘Birther’ controversy: Arizona election official says it’s ‘possible’ Obama might not make ballot

John Boehner thinks it’s kind of funny. “It struck me as somewhat comical,” he told reporters Thursday morning, “that, you know, people are looking to me like I’m the guy carrying a sword around town, I’m going to bludgeon someone.” Read full article > >

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Boehner draws his sword

Classic rockers Van Halen on Thursday abruptly postponed more than 30 tour dates, following their June 26 concert in New Orleans, representative Anna Loynes said.

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Van Halen postpones summer tour

Mississippi's Supreme Court on Thursday denied the state attorney general's attempt that it reconsider its assent to controversial pardons — several of them for convicted killers — issued earlier this year by outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour.

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Court upholds Mississippi pardons

Prepare to sing Taylor Swift’s praises. The country music darling has donated $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for the construction and funding of a new education center, the organization said Thursday in a press release . The center, which will be named in her honor and is set to open in 2014, will feature three classrooms and a children’s exhibit gallery. Read full article > >

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Taylor Swift donates $4 million to Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

A New York medical examiner will begin an autopsy Thursday on Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was found dead at her Westchester County home.

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Autopsy set for Mary Kennedy

Spain’s borrowing costs look set to spike in a bond auction on Thursday, as the Greek crisis saps confidence in other indebted economies.

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Spain set to pay more on bonds

The Olympic flame is to be passed to London on Thursday evening, after a week-long relay around Greece.

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VIDEO: Acropolis ceremony for Olympic torch

A helicopter that ditched in the North Sea on Thursday had suffered a main gearbox oil leak, BBC Scotland understands.

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Ditched helicopter ‘had oil leak’