1. MOURNERS TO PAY RESPECTS TO LATE JUSTICE SCALIA AT SUPREME COURT ON FRIDAY Justice Antonin Scalia's casket is expected to arrive early Friday at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

His body will lie in repose through the day in the building's Great Hall, near the courtroom where he served as a leader of the court's conservative wing for three decades.

Thousands of dignitaries, including President Obama, and other mourners are expected to pay their respects to Scalia, who died on Saturday at age 79. His funeral will be held Saturday at the

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The New York Times 2. TRUMP SHRUGS OFF EVIDENCE HE ONCE SUPPORTED INVADING IRAQ Donald Trump said in a CNN town

plan was a bad idea. Trump explained Thursday that Stern probably was the first to ask him about Iraq. "By the time the war started," Trump said, "I was against the war."

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get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. CNN 3. OBAMA VOWS TO PRESS HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AS REPUBLICANS SLAM CUBA TRIP President Obama on Thursday officially announced his

plan to visit Cuba, pledging to press the Communist Caribbean nation's president, Raul Castro, on human rights and other sensitive issues. Obama also will meet with dissidents.

Republicans accused Obama of coddling a ruthless regime. Former Florida governor and current presidential candidate Jeb Bush called the planned trip "appalling." The last, and

only, sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge in 1928. The Associated Press 4. TRUMP CALLS POPE FRANCIS' CRITICISM 'DISGRACEFUL' Donald Trump has clashed

plenty with his fellow Republican presidential candidates, but on Thursday he got into a long-distance dispute with an unlikely adversary — Pope Francis. The pontiff said after a trip to the

Mexico-U.S. border that anyone who wants to build a wall on the border to keep out undocumented migrants — as Trump does — is "not a Christian." Trump, campaigning in South

Carolina, shot back: "For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful." The Guardian CNN 5. U.S. AIRSTRIKE KILLS 30 AT ISIS CAMP IN LIBYA U.S. warplanes hit

an Islamic State camp in Libya early Friday, killing more than 30 ISIS recruits. The airstrike targeted Noureddine Chouchane, an ISIS operative from Tunisia linked to two major attacks in

his home country last year. One killed 22 people at Tunis' National Bardo Museum in March. The other killed 38 people in the coastal resort town of Sousse. U.S. officials are still

trying to determine if Chouchane was killed in the attack. The New York Times 6. TURKEY BLAMES KURDISH MILITANTS AS BOMBING TARGETS SOLDIERS Six Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday when a

roadside bomb detonated by their armored vehicle exploded in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir. The attack came a day after 28 people were killed in a car-bombing that targeted buses

of military personnel in Ankara, Turkey's capital. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed the Ankara bombing on a Syrian man with ties to Kurdish militias, and said he carried

out the bombing with the help of Turkish militant group the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Syrian Kurdish militias denied any involvement. CNN 7. FBI SEARCHES HOUSE OF SAN BERNARDINO

SHOOTER'S BROTHER FBI agents on Thursday searched the California house of Syed Raheel Farook, the brother of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. Syed Raheel Farook is a decorated

military veteran who has not been named as a suspect in the San Bernardino terror attack in which his brother and sister-in-law killed 14 people. A dozen FBI agents spent several hours in

the house and left with armloads of boxes, a computer, and other items. The Associated Press Los Angeles Times 8. POPE FRANCIS HINTS THAT WOMEN THREATENED BY ZIKA COULD USE CONTRACEPTION

Pope Francis suggested Thursday that the Catholic Church could relax its longstanding ban on most birth control in the interest of fighting the Zika virus. The pope, on a plane returning to

Rome from Mexico, was asked whether allowing contraception would be the "lesser of two evils" as some women in Latin America reportedly consider having abortions due to a suspected

link between Zika and devastating birth defects. The pope reiterated the church's position that abortion is a "crime," but said "avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute

evil." Reuters CNN 9. OBAMA SIGNS NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST NORTH KOREA President Obama signed legislation Thursday to hit North Korea with strengthened and expanded sanctions over the

nation's nuclear weapons program. The move comes two days after the U.S. sent four F-22 stealth fighters to South Korea in a show of force as tensions rise with North Korea, which

recently carried out a nuclear test and rocket launch. The U.S. and China have been in careful negotiations over a U.N. Security Council resolution on new sanctions. China has expressed

concerns that such strict measures could destroy North Korea's economy. CBS News 10. CALIFORNIA GAS LEAK PERMANENTLY PLUGGED WITH CEMENT California officials announced Thursday that a

natural gas leak that fouled the air in Porter Ranch has been permanently sealed. The leak forced thousands of people to leave their houses as Southern California Gas worked on stopping the

leak. Crews last week temporarily stopped the gas flow by injecting heavy fluids into the well, and this week followed up by plugging it with cement. Now the gas company is developing a

proposal to mitigate the damage the leak did to the environment. Los Angeles Times Explore More Daily briefing