President Obama declared Friday that his new immigration policy, which blocks the deportation of the children of illegal immigrants, “falls short of where we need to be.” While addressing the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, the President also promised to fight for a “comprehensive” immigration bill. Pointing out that Mitt Romney has promised, if elected, to veto the “DREAM Act,” Obama insisted, “we should have passed the DREAM Act a long time ago.” The President currently has a huge lead over Romney among Latino voters. 

After 21 hours of deliberation, a Pennsylvania jury has found Jerry Sandusky guilty on 45 out of 48 charges related to child sexual abuse. The former Penn State University assistant football coach was convicted of sexually abusing nine boys (he'd been accused of abusing 10) over a 15-year period. Sandusky had pleaded not guilty to all 48 charges. He and his lawyer, Joe Amendola, unsuccessfully attempted to convince the jury of insufficient evidence, a conspiracy created by the alleged victims for profit, and biased media coverage of the case. Sandusky's adopted son, Matt, shocked the court Thursday evening when he said, through his attorney, that he, too, had been sexually abused by his father and would be willing to testify against him. NBC News reports that Sandusky will get at least 60 years in prison.

Syria has reportedly apologized for shooting down a Turkish F-4 on Friday. Both Turkish fliers survived the mysterious crash, though witness statements suggest that Syrian defenses might have intentionally shot down the plane. Relations between the two countries have deteriorated since the uprising began in Syria more than a year ago. Meanwhile, senior U.S. and European officials are concerned that terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, are operating among Syrian rebels and potentially supplying them with missiles.

Taliban militants stormed the popular resort destination of Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul on Friday, killing at least 20 civilians while all seven of the gunmen, a police officer, and three private guards were shot dead. The Taliban said that Afghans drank alcohol at the resort and that prostitution and dancing were going on there. “These acts are illegal and strictly prohibited in Islam,” a Taliban spokesman said. “Women dancers were sexually misused there.” The gunmen also took scores of hostages during the 11-hour-long siege.

Thousands of Egyptians packed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square—the site of the famous revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak’s regime—on Friday as they awaited the results of the nation’s first presidential election. While the ruling military said Egyptians have the right to assemble peacefully in the square, they said they will “deal firmly” with attempts to harm the public interest. Members of Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood party camped out overnight in the square, and they expected to be joined later in the afternoon by secular protesters. The Muslim Brotherhood has claimed their candidate for president, Mohamed Morsi, is the “legitimate” winner of the election, although Mubarak’s former deputy, Ahmed Shafiq, has declared himself the victor. The official results are expected this weekend.

Politico reporter Joe Williams has been pulled from the White House beat after saying in an MSNBC appearance Thursday that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is most at ease around “white folks.” Williams is also famous for his provocative Twitter feed. Politico sprang into action. “Our standards are serious, and so are the consequences for disregarding them,” the political news site said in an company memo. “This is true for all Politico journalists, including an experienced and well-respected voice like Joe Williams.” Williams also posted jabs at Romney on Twitter.

After 13 days of deliberations, jurors found Philadelphia’s Monsignor William Lynn guilty on one count of child endangerment, not guilty on a second count, and not guilty of conspiracy. The jury declared a mistrial in the case of Reverend James Brennan, who faced 13 to 27 years on charges of attempted rape and endangering a child’s welfare. The landmark case put Lynn on the witness stand for three days in the first instance of an official of the Catholic Church being charged with covering up allegations of abuse, and he could have served a prison term of up to 20 years if convicted on all charges.

Mississippi women may have to leave the state to get an abortion starting July 1. A new law passed by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature requires doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at an area hospital. But at the one remaining Mississippi clinic that provides abortions, the three doctors there that perform the procedure say they haven’t been granted the necessary privileges. If that doesn’t change for the doctors of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, it may be only a matter of weeks before Mississippi becomes the first state without an abortion clinic. Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University, said there’s no “guarantee of access” when it comes to abortion. “States can’t create legal barriers or penalties,” Parmet says, “but they can make it practically really, really difficult.”

Wedding bells rang for the family of former Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday. Mary Cheney reportedly married Heather Poe, her long-time partner with whom she has two children, in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. The couple lives in Virginia. “Mary and Heather have been in a committed relationship for many years, and we are delighted that they were able to take advantage of the opportunity to have that relationship recognized,” the Cheney family told The Daily Caller in a statement. “Mary and Heather and their children are very important and much loved members of our family and we wish them every happiness.”

It doesn’t sound like Karen Klein thinks those bullies learned their lesson. At least three of the kids who bullied the 68-year-old grandmother and bus monitor have issued statements apologizing—although Klein says the kids should still be held accountable for their actions. In a video that went viral earlier this week, a group of middle-school students taunted Klein, and even made comments about Klein’s son’s suicide. Since then, nearly $500,000 has been raised to support her—although she said “it’s a nice gesture, but I just don’t know if it’s real or not.” Klein said she doesn’t believe the boys are bad kids “deep down,” but she does believe they should be punished by the school.

Summer’s over. Or it might as well be for lovers of Good Humor ice cream as the company suffers from a shortage of some of its most classic brands, like the Chocolate Éclair or Candy-Center Crunch. “Primarily due to the unprecedented warm spring weather, as well as the routine challenges presented when production moves from one plant to others, some iconic Good Humor brands are in shorter supply via mobile vending units,” said company spokesman Caroline Krajewski. Last year the company trimmed its workforce by about 400 employees and shut an ice cream plant in Maryland. The company’s trucks, a staple of the American summer for many, first took to the streets in 1920.

As recipes for disaster go, this one deserves its own cookbook. Director Robert Rodriguez has reportedly signed both Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson to his new movie Machete Kills- with Sheen playing the President of the United States. The Sin City director announced his choice of Sheen on Twitter. The film is a sequel to Machete, Rodriguez’s 2010 homage to B movies that featured an all-star cast that included Robert DeNiro and Steven Seagal. His exploitation auteur’s new flick features a no-less glamorous list of actors, including Jessica Alba and Sofia Vergara. But Sheen and Gibson, known these days more for their off-camera outbursts than their on-screen performances, are sure to be the ones grabbing headlines in the coming months.

Actor John Travolta has been sued for libel after the man who wrote a book about his alleged gay encounters with the actor said Travolta had been spreading false statements about his mental health. Robert Randolph is seeking unspecified damages against Travolta and his lawyer. Randolph's book, You'll Never Spa in this Town Again, was published in February, but the author said Travolta had smeared him in an effort to dissuade people from buying the book.

LeBron James won his first NBA championship at the age of 27 when the Miami Heat beat the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night 121-106 in one of the most lopsided Game 5  victories in basketball history. James had a triple double, with 26 points, 11 rebounds, and 13 assists, as the Heat completely dominated the Thunder. James also won the MVP award for the series.

It was a rough day for Twitter, which had not one but two service outages within a few hours of each other. The service first went down between 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Pacific time on Thursday morning. About an hour later, Twitter went down again, leaving its users with slow service for much of the day.  The company blamed the problems on a “cascading bug” in its system. UgNazi, a hacker organization, claimed responsibility for the disruption. Twitter, which has had reliability problems in the past, has been trying to work on its consistency issues.

A park ranger fell to his death on Mount Rainier in Washington state Thursday when he tried to help rescue four injured climbers. Nick Hall fell about 3,700 feet down the northeast side of the mountain as he helped prepare the other climbers for a helicopter to lift them to safety. The climbers from Waco, Texas, slipped down the Emmons Glacier, which left two of them dangling in a crevasse. They called for help with a cellphone. None of their injuries were life-threatening.

Mexican Marines said they have captured one of the sons of Mexico's most-wanted drug kingpin, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa cartel. Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 26, has been allegedly taking on more leadership roles in Mexico's most powerful drug cartel and purportedly serves as the administrator of his father's fortune. Forbes magazine estimates the estate to be worth about $1 billion. The son, known as “El Gordo,” or the Fat One, was captured early Thursday during a raid in Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara.

Jurors continue deliberations Friday in the sex-abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in Bellefonte, Pa. Prosecutors and defense lawyers made their final appeals Thursday to the panel of seven women and five men, and the jury later deliberated for more than seven hours before being sequestered in a local hotel overnight. Before closing arguments began, Judge John Cleland dismissed three of the 51 charges against Sandusky, involving 10 alleged victims.

Thanks, but no thanks. Meredith Vieira has turned down an offer to replace Ann Curry on NBC’s morning program, Today. NBC reportedly offered the job to Vieira two weeks ago, who was not interested in returning to the show she already anchored for six years. Network sources tell TMZ that the current frontrunner to replace Curry is Savannah Guthrie, who cohosts the third hour of Today after spending time with MSNBC as a political reporter.

The U.S. Justice Department is filing a lawsuit against authorities in a pair of polygamous Utah-Arizona border towns, alleging that they have ignored the rights and intimidated residents who aren't followers of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the group run by the jailed leader Warren Jeffs. The feds said city leaders and law enforcement had denied people housing and municipal services and allowing members of the dominant religious sect to destroy residents' crops and property in the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. Jeffs is serving a life sentence in Texas after being convicted on child sex and bigamy charges.

A new Gallup poll has found that bias against a Mormon presidential candidate has not changed in the past 45 years. 18 percent of Americans said that they would not vote for a well-qualified candidate who was also a Mormon. Gallup took the same poll in 1967, when Mitt Romney’s father, George Romney, was seeking the GOP nomination. At the time, 17 percent of Americans said they would not vote for a well-qualified candidate who was also a Mormon. Gallup’s editor-in-chief wrote in a report, “The stability of resistance to a Mormon presidential candidate over the past 45 years is an anomaly … resistance to a candidate who is black, a woman, or Jewish has declined substantially over the same period of time.”

A mystery may be solved, but a scandal deepens. A Japanese newspaper reported on Friday that the wife of once-prominent Communist Party politician Bo Xilai has admitted to killing British businessman Neil Heywood. Chinese state-run media had reported that Gu Kailai was a prime suspect in Heywood’s killing. The Japanese report alleges that Gu committed the murder that left 41-year-old Heywood dead in his Chongqing hotel room—a death that authorities first chalked up to “excessive alcohol consumption.”The Japanese paper reports that Gu gave intimate details of how Mr. Heywood died, saying she killed him because she felt “driven into a corner” by an investigation of her finances.

Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's News International, made her first appearance at the Southwark Crown Court on Friday to face three charges of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by alleged plotting to hide phone-hacking evidence from the police. But Brooks could face further charges over phone hacking itself, and she is expected to learn whether that will happen by the end of summer. Her husband, Charlie, faces one count of perverting the course of justice.

Less than two days after deliberations began, the jury in the Jerry Sandusky trial has reached a verdict. It's expected to be read late Friday night, though press personnel in court are restricted from sharing the decision until court is officially adjourned. Sandusky, a former coach at Penn State, faces 48 charges relating to sexual assault against minors. In an unguarded moment on Friday, Sandusky's own attorney acknowledged the long odds of an acquittal: Joe Amendola said he’d be shocked that he’d “die of a heart attack” if his client were to beat all of the charges.