Obama Dismisses IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups as Non-Issue, Secret National Reconnaissance Office Payload Successfully Launched, Private Company Wants to Land Spacecraft on Moon in 2015: P.M. Links

President Obama
downplayed the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups in defending
the job his administration has done and the trustworthiness of the
federal government in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris
Matthews.
A federal judge
ruled Greenville County Schools did not have to stop
student-led prayers or activities being held at places of worship
while a lawsuit against the practices goes to court.
A DC police officer, Linwood Barnhill, is being
investigated for allegedly running a prostitution ring after a
missing 16-year-old girl was found in his apartment. He has not
been arrested or charged, but police executed a search warrant for
alleged child pornography and sex trafficking of a minor.
A rocket
carrying an unknown payload for the National Reconnaissance
Office, which manages the government’s space-based spy
satellites, launched successfully off the coast of California.
At a summit of African leaders being held in Paris, French
President Francois Hollande
urged the creation of a regional security force to deal with
crises like the one in Central African Republic to which France is
responding with its latest intervention.
Jordan will
take the UN Security Council seat previously rejected by Saudi
Arabia.
A private company
wants to land a micro-spacecraft on the surface of the moon in
2015.