Four huge tankers dumped 3,000 gallons of flame-retardant material in less than five seconds on Monday in an effort to calm the massive High Park fire in Fort Collins, Colo. As of Monday night, the fire had burned through 3,446 acres and was only 5 percent contained. “It’s surreal and it’s scary,” said Army reservist Lt. Col. Robert Fairbanks, who was sent in to help contain the fire. No structures have been damaged so far, but 6,000 residents have been displaced. Meanwhile, in Denver, temperatures on Monday reached a record 105 degrees, the fourth day in a row the city has seen temperatures over 100 degrees. There’s no relief in sight either: Tuesday’s high temperature is expected to reach 102 degrees.

Spain received yet another downgrade from Moody’s rating agency on Monday, just as the country formally requested bailout for its banks from the euro zone. Earlier this month Moody’s downgraded the Spanish government’s creditworthiness, which Moody’s says led to “a weaker credit profile for Spanish banks. Though Banco Santander was among those downgraded on Monday, it’s the only one of 28 others that still has higher credit ratings than the Spanish government.

The Turkish government on Tuesday condemned attacks on its military planes by Syria, with the prime minister saying Turkey's forces are now on high alert. "The rules of engagement of the Turkish Armed Forces have changed given this new development," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. "Everybody should know that Turkey's wrath is just as strong and devastating as its friendship is valuable," he added. On Friday, Syria downed a Turkish jet but quickly apologized, saying the jet had been shot down due to mistaken identity. NATO has agreed to discuss the incident on Tuesday, but diplomats said the meeting is unlikely to lead to any military response.

White House officials said Monday that the federal government will not enforce the controversial “show me your papers” law upheld by the Supreme Court—and President Obama is rescinding agreements that allow some Arizona law-enforcement officials to enforce federal immigration laws. The Justice Department has also set up a hotline for complaints about civil-rights violations in connection to Arizona. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer accused the Obama administration of launching an “assault” on her state, saying they had “arbitrarily singled out Arizona and sent a bomb, if you will, across our bow and made Arizona a target.” On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney put himself in favor of states’ rights on the issue, saying “each state has the duty—and the right—to secure our borders and preserve the rule of law.”

Wall Street tumbled by its close on Monday, as investors worried over Europe’s future—and showed little optimism about the upcoming European Union summit. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 138 points, NASDAQ was down 2 percent, and the S&P 500 was down 1.8 percent, meaning it will just about break even for June. “Last week we were very hopeful that they were moving forward and the meetings this week would have a positive ending,” said analyst Gail Dudack. “Today there is a lot of doubt the EU summit will generate anything substantial.”

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg can now add “board member” to her long list of responsibilities at the social-media giant. “Sheryl has been my partner in running Facebook and has been central to our growth and success over the years,” Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement naming her the seventh member of the board of directors. Sandberg, who was previously vice president of global online sales and operations at Google, oversees Facebook’s business operations, including sales, marketing, human resources, communications, and more. In her spare time, she also serves on the boards of Walt Disney Co., Women for Women International, the Center for Global Development, and V-Day.

A lawyer for Jerry Sandusky said on Monday that the former football coach “wants people to know he’s not guilty” despite being convicted of 45 out of 48 counts of sexual abuse. “He’s defiant and wants the truth to be told,” said Karl Rominger, one of Sandusky’s lawyers. “He wants people to know he’s not guilty.” Rominger also said Sandusky is not suicidal, while also asking that the former coach be removed from isolation in jail—Sandusky said he would go “nutty” if he remained in isolation. A judge on Monday ordered county probation officers to evaluate whether Sandusky is a sexual predator, which could factor in his prison placement.

Two teenage lesbians were shot in the head in a Texas park on Saturday, with one of them dying from the bullet wound and the other in critical condition. Police are still investigating the shootings of 19-year-old Mollie Olgin, who died, and 18-year-old Mary Chapa, and have claimed all evidence indicates that there were “third parties” involved in the crime. Friends say the girls had been a couple for five months, but police have yet to determine whether or not their sexuality played a role in the assault.

Apparently viewers expected more from Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO drama about the sad state of modern American journalism. The show debuted to lackluster ratings on Sunday night, with 2.1 million viewers tuning into the premiere. While it did better than HBO’s last drama series debut, Luck, it paled in comparison with Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire, which debuted to 4.2 and 4.8 million viewers respectively. Both The New York Times and New Yorker gave it mostly negative reviews, though former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather wrote that it deserved a little more credit. Meanwhile, Sorkin can’t seem to say anything positive about journalism today, recently sinking so low as to call Toronto Globe and Mail writer Sarah Nicole Prickett “Internet Girl” ... to her face.

Connecticut police said on Monday that actor Dylan McDermott’s mother’s 1967 death was a murder, not a suicide, as had been previously determined. Diane McDermott died in Feb. 1967 after being shot in the head, and it was ruled an accident. The only witness to her death was John Sponza, who police now say they believe is responsible for Diane’s death. Sponza, who had ties to organized crime, was killed in 1972—police found his body in the trunk of a car. Dylan McDermott was 5 at the time of his mother’s death, and he reportedly was standing next to the front door to their apartment when she died.

In a 5-4 decision on Monday the Supreme Court struck down automatic life sentences without possibility of parole for juveniles. Mandatory life sentences for persons under the age of 18 constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” in the opinion of the court, Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the majority opinion. Judges could still sentence juvenile convicts to life sentences without parole on an individual basis, but the ruling prohibits state laws that would make such a punishment automatic in murder trials. Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito dissented, along with Chief Justice John Roberts.

No ifs, ands, or buts. The U.S. Supreme Court made the swift decision Monday not to revisit Citizens United, rejecting Montana’s case that the controversial ruling not be used to strike down state-level campaign-financing restrictions. In a 5–4 vote, the majority overruled a decision made by Montana’s Supreme Court that the state be exempt from Citizens United. The four who represented the minority vote argued that the 2010 Citizens United ruling, one of the Supreme Court’s most controversial decisions since Bush v. Gore in 2000, should never have been put in place to begin with.

Well, it’s not a comeback if it doesn’t come with some struggle. Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams was knocked out of the tournament in the first round, losing 6–1, 6–3. Williams, who’s been fighting Sjogren’s syndrome—a disease that sucks the energy out of a person—hasn’t been able to practice as much as usual. The 32-year-old said that she did her best, and that she still feels like a “great player.”

Animated family flicks Brave and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted topped the box-office list this weekend, raking in a combined $85 million. According to Disney vice president of distribution Dave Hollis, the formula for success is to offer something kids and their parents can enjoy. It’s a strategy that’s certainly worked for Pixar—Brave is the animation studio’s 13th film to open in the No. 1 slot at theaters. Moviegoers were not queuing up for some of the weekend’s other big-screen fare, with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and its top-hatted protagonist pulling down an underwhelming $16.5 million in the film’s first weekend.

All the turf wars over the war in Afghanistan were not waged in Kabul. The most important may have been fought in the Obama White House. According to an excerpt from Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran published in The Washington Post, top Obama staff including National Security Adviser James L. Jones sought to fire diplomat Richard Holbrooke. As Holbrooke and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced off against other senior diplomats, the squabbling over political bailiwicks may have cost the White House a chance at forging a peace deal in the war-torn country.

Ann Curry will walk off the Today show with a $10 million check, sources told the New York Post. The host inked a $20 million contract with NBC when she became co-host of the morning show last year. While the network has a history of offering fat payouts to departing talent—including a generous $45 million to Conan O’Brien when he was ousted from The Tonight Show—Curry’s reported payday is only middling at the morning show. Host Matt Lauer’s contract renewal reportedly came in at $25 million a year. News that Curry, who has been with Today for 15 years, was being replaced on the show leaked last week.

Mitt Romney has relatively little of substance to say about the Supreme Court’s ruling on Arizona’s controversial immigration law. The Republican presidential hopeful said that the high court’s decision to strike down key portions of the law was a sign that the U.S. is in need of someone who can “lead” on immigration, but offered little else in the way of a specific stance on the ruling. “President Obama has failed to provide any leadership on immigration. This represents yet another broken promise by this president,” Romney said in a statement. “I believe that each state has the duty—and the right—to secure our borders and preserve the rule of law, particularly when the federal government has failed to meet its responsibilities.”

Going after the attorney general is one thing. Implicating the president, Congressman Darrell Issa said in an appearance on Fox News Sunday, is something else. Responding to a comment made by House Speaker John Boehner, Issa said there is no evidence to suggest that the White House attempted to mislead lawmakers regarding the Department of Justice’s bungled Fast and Furious gun-walking probe. “I hope this stays at Justice,” said Issa, who is head of the House oversight committee. “And I hope that Justice cooperates, because ultimately, Justice lied to the American people.” Last week, Issa’s committee recommended a contempt citation for Attorney General Eric Holder.

Facebook clearly wanted more negative publicity this year. On Monday the company changed everyone’s default email address to the @facebook.com account that all users were assigned recently—but few had started using. When users check their contact information on their profiles or timelines today, they will find only the @facebook.com email account listed and any other email addresses hidden. In a statement of explanation, Facebook said, “Ever since the launch of timeline, people have had the ability to control what posts they want to show or hide on their own timelines, and today we’re extending that to other information they post, starting with the Facebook address.”

The Supreme Court may hand down its ruling as soon as Monday on President Obama’s signature health-care law. The much-anticipated ruling is sure to continue to draw debate, as both Mitt Romney and Obama defined it as a key election-year issue in the lead-up to the decision. The Affordable Care Act became one of the divisive political issues in the country after it was signed into law in March 2010. One of the court’s key considerations will be on whether the law’s controversial individual mandate should be treated as a tax or a regulation of commerce.

Thought to be the last of his kind, giant tortoise Lonesome George was found dead by officials at Galápagos National Park on Sunday. The centenarian tortoise was expected to live longer, according to scientists, and the cause of his death was not immediately clear. Lonesome George is thought to have been the last of the Pinta Island subspecies of Galápagos giant tortoise, and scientists tried repeatedly to get him to mate successfully over the years, but to no avail. Efforts to aid the islands’ giant tortoises have increased their population from 3,000 to 20,000 in the past four decades.

A public-relations rep, of all people, should know better. A Salvation Army official told an Australian radio show host that according to their “belief system” gay people deserve death. Gay Australian journalists Serena Ryan and Pete Dillon, who host the show Salt and Pepper, asked a local branch’s media relations director, Major Andrew Craibe, “according to the Salvation Army, [gay people] deserve death. How do you respond to that?” Craibe said, “Well, that’s part of our belief system ... you know, we have an alignment with the Scriptures, but that’s our belief.” The Salvation Army tried to distance itself from Craibe’s statements, saying the charity “believes in the sanctity of all human life and believes it would be inconsistent with Christian teaching to call for anyone to be put to death.”

Egypt has a winner. Questions about the United States’ relationship with the country remain, however, after Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi was named Egypt’s new president Sunday. “Sure we’ll deal with them. They’re freely elected,” a senior American diplomat told The Wall Street Journal, but questions about military and intelligence ties to the country—including the $1.3 billion in military aid provided by the U.S.—will be worked out over time. “It’s scary what the region could look like in a year,” an Arab official told reporters. “You could have one bloc of the Muslim Brothers and the others close to Iran.”

Police in India have arrested a man they say is responsible for planning the brutal 2008 attacks that left 165 dead in Mumbai. Abu Hamza, who was allegedly the handler for the 10 gunmen who mounted the attacks in Mumbai, was turned over to police in Delhi, officials said Monday. The 30-year-old Hamza, also known as Syed Zabiuddin, was arrested Thursday while returning from a trip to the Middle East. He allegedly coordinated the movements of the gunmen in Mumbai by cellphone as they tore through the city, attacking hotels, a Jewish cultural center, and a train station, among other targets.

The banners were rainbow, but the politics were blue. Obama campaigners spent the weekend outdoors at more than a dozen major gay-pride events held in cities nationwide. The president’s reelection efforts hope to tap the pool of gay voters who typically support Democrats 3 to 1 over Republicans and who seem more likely than ever to tilt for Obama this year after he announced his personal support for same-sex marriage. “It’s like shooting fish in a barrel this year,” said Democratic consultant Steve Elmendorf. “I think people are just tremendously grateful.” Three hundred Obama campaigners marched in Chicago’s gay-pride parade Sunday.

This isn’t the kind of race countries aspire to win. The London Olympic Games are on track to become the most expensive since the 1996 summer competition in Atlanta, said researchers at the University of Oxford. The final price tag may set the British capital city back twice what organizers originally estimated. A spokesman for the Games did not comment on the study. When London placed its bid to host the Olympics, organizers estimated that it would cost the city about £4.2 billion to secure the international sporting event. Several years later, it looks like that amount may have risen to about £8.4 billion.

Bashar al-Assad is becoming an increasingly lonely dictator. Reports from neighboring Turkey said more Syrian military officers defected across the border Monday, raising tensions in the two countries. Turkey is already at odds with its neighbor over Syria’s decision to shoot down a Turkish fighter jet Friday—a response that Syria claims was automatic after the plane entered Syrian airspace. As Turkey, a NATO member, has contemplated its options over the weekend, European leaders have urged caution. “We will obviously be looking to Turkey to be restrained in its response,” European Union foreign-policy head Catherine Ashton told reporters. A general, two colonels, and other Syrian military members crossed the border into Turkey on Monday.

The Supreme Court struck down key portions of Arizona’s SB 1070 on Monday, a strict set of immigration regulations that was signed into law in 2010 by Gov. Jan Brewer. While reading his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia went off script and said that the framers of the Constitution would have "rushed to the exits" if they were there for the president's recent decision not to deport some illegal immigrants. The Obama administration’s challenge to the law focused in particular on a section that requires police officers to ask for identification papers from people they pull over and suspect of being illegal immigrants, but this portion of the law was upheld. Obama said on Monday that he was “pleased” with the ruling overall but “concerned” with the remaining provision. In a separate case, the court decided to strike down juvenile life sentences without parole in a 5-4 vote. The ruling comes in the cases of two 14-year-old convicts from Arkansas and Alabama.

Weeks after Spain said it would seek European Union aid in recapitalizing its banks, Cyprus applied for bailout funds on Monday. In a statement, government officials cited the threat of financial contagion spreading from Greece. “The purpose of the required assistance is to contain the risks to the Cypriot economy, notably those arising from the negative spillover effects through its financial sector, due to its large exposure in the Greek economy,” read a government statement. Officials in the tiny island nation became the fifth euro zone country to ask for financial assistance from the European Union.

Fears of flooding rose in Florida as Tropical Storm Debby ground to a halt in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday. Rain continued to pour down on the state, and at least one person was reported dead as a result of tornadoes spun off by the storm. High winds were replaced by flooding as the first concern along Florida’s coast as residents of low-lying areas were encouraged to head to higher ground—some areas of the state could get as much as 25 inches of rain, according to forecasters. A 32-year-old man is missing after being swept up by rough surf off the coast of Alabama on Sunday.