"Think of how different the narrative would be had the silent Airman just come forward," asks Air Force Col. Robert W. Stanley, in a letter announcing his resignation amid the nuclear missile corps cheating scandal that's led to the firing of 9 other commanders. "That airman would now be lionized as a hero for casting aside his or her own fear of being made an outcast by a few inadequate peers." http://yhoo.it/Ql3D3j

PHOTOS : Two years ago, former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney was moved enough by the plight of a 14-year-old elephant named Sunder, chained and beaten by his handlers at Jyotiba Temple in a city south of India's largest city, to start a campaign for his release. http://yhoo.it/1jKuFK6 #animalAbuse #photography

PHOTOS : Supporters of Afghan Presidential candidate Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf listen to his speech during an election campaign in Herat, Afghanistan, a cyclist passes fields with blossoming daffodils and hyacinths near Noordwijk, Netherlands and a student carries wood to add to the fire, started by students , during the first day of a student strike to protest a government education cutbacks at Complutense University in Madrid are some of the photos of the day. http://yhoo.it/1jvA5wx #POTD

After an Ohio inmate gasped while dying and an Oklahoma prisoner complained that he felt his body burning, inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner had wanted to know who was making the drugs that would kill them next month and whether the material was pure.

PHOTOS : These photographs show the food chain in action as a hungry lion braved a river full of crocodiles to try and sink his teeth into a dead hippo. The photos were taken in the Maasi Mara nature reserve, in Kenya and show hungry lion braving a crocodile-infested river to get to an upside down hippo, which had died overnight of natural causes. http://yhoo.it/1psOnvi #photography #wildlife #animals

Matt Bai On Politics: There's no question where the public stands here; according to the most recent polling from the Pew Research Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation, more voters want to keep and improve the law than scrap it altogether. The problem is that Republicans, catering to their most ardent ideological base, still scream "repeal." And while Democrats mouth talking points about improving the bill, they're in too much of a defensive crouch to follow through.

PHOTOS : We've come a long way from an era in which a Catholic presidential candidate, JFK, faced voters worried he would take order from the Vatican. President Obama meets eagerly Thursday with Pope Francis, an international superstar reshaping the way the world thinks about the Church. Here is how history records past meetings of sitting presidents and reigning popes. http://yhoo.it/1jvBfZa #photography #photos #presidents #popes

What happens when the President meets the Pope? History. Policy. Jokes. http://yhoo.it/1p7eAkZ

PHOTOS : Goats eat vegetable leaves from a wooden-cart belonging to a Pakistani man working in a wholesale fruit and vegetable market on the outskirts of Islamabad, German rider Karl Platt is covered in mud after during ABSA Cape Epic mountain bike stage race in South Africa and German Chancellor Angela Merkel laughs talking to Finland's President Sauli Niinisto on the last day of the Nuclear Security Summit are some of the photos of the day. http://yhoo.it/1jEmsHe #photography #potd #photos

PHOTOS : The award winning work of AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus. http://yhoo.it/1gyZ2oY #photographer #PulitzerPrize #AnjaNiedringhaus