Ferguson, Mo.: The federal government is playing a bigger part in the investigation of the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. on Sunday ordering an independent autopsy of the 18-year-old, Michael Brown, The Washington Post reports.

Perry Indictment: A Travis County, Texas, grand jury has indicted Gov. Rick Perry for two felonies related to his conduct when vetoing funding for the Travis County District Attorney’s Public Integrity Unit, in the wake of D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg’s drunk driving conviction, the Texas Lawyer reports.