Category: World

Paul Walsh, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan said Monday that his department is preparing to release a time line detailing the mass workplace shooting last week at a Bryn

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, as part of his We Can’t Wait initiative, President Obama announced that two nationally and regionally significant transit projects in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Cleveland, Ohio will be expedited

WASHINGTON – On the afternoon of Sunday, Sept. 30, 1962, 127 Deputy U.S. Marshals, 316 federalized border patrol personnel and 97 deputized prison guards, on the orders of then – U.S. Attorney

Gregg Hennigan, CR Gazette – The Floods of 2008 may lead to the rebirth of a riverfront Iowa City neighborhood near downtown that city officials believe is teeming with potential. For the

Los Angeles Times – DAMASCUS, Syria — When shop owners and customers saw the small group of armed men appear on the street, they ran the other way or headed indoors. “Go,

By Alex Rodriguez and Aimal Yaqubi, Los Angeles Times – ISLAMABAD — NATO forces Sunday were investigating whether the weekend shooting deaths of a U.S. soldier and an American civilian contractor in Afghanistan

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times – AMRITSAR, India — Hundreds of angry Muslims in southeast Bangladesh torched at least 10 Buddhist temples and dozens of homes Sunday after alleging that a Buddhist

By Kathleen Hennessey, Tribune Washington Bureau – HENDERSON, Nev. — President Barack Obama landed in southern Nevada on Sunday, where after a Sunday night rally he’ll hunker down to prepare for his first

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — The historic bazaar in the Syrian city of Aleppo was in flames Saturday, the latest casualty in a lingering conflict that has

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – The Social Security numbers of Army recipients of the Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross were inadvertently posted online by a Pentagon contractor and

By Ansgar Haase – PARIS — Thousands of left-wing protesters turned out Sunday in Paris for a demonstration against European austerity policies. “This day is the day the French people launch a

By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau – AUSTIN, Texas — After a U.S. appeals court struck down race-based college admissions in Texas 16 years ago, the first Mexican American woman elected to

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday said that, instead of drawing a “red line” for Iran, Israel should draw one for itself and its nuclear arsenal, the ISNA news agency reported. The

VINTON, Iowa – Two-hundred thirty young adults from across the nation were sworn in as members of FEMA Corps at an induction ceremony in Iowa on Friday, providing a boost to the

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – Omar Ahmed Khadr, the youngest and last remaining Western prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for terrorism suspects, was sent home Saturday to

By Michael J. Mishak and Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday outlawing the open carrying of rifles and shotguns in cities across

By Alan Zarembo, Ari Bloomekatz and Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—The plot is identical to last summer’s Carmageddon: Can Los Angeles avoid a traffic apocalypse as officials shut down

By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — The Pentagon is buying a mobile cardiac care unit and separate MRI trailer for the 167 detainees at Guantanamo, a $2.6 million investment

By Neela Banerjee and Don Lee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, in a rare move, blocked the acquisition by a Chinese-owned company of four wind farm projects next

Erin Jordan, CR Gazette – The Iowa Department of Revenue is collecting back taxes from 46 Iowa police officers who haven’t paid sales tax for off-duty assignments, such as wedding receptions and

By Kristen Moulton and Gary Peterson, Contra Costa Times – SAN FRANCISCO — Nineteen former and current U.S. soldiers and airmen filed suit Friday in San Francisco, claiming top military brass deprived

By Ken Dilanian, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The lethal attack on the U.S. Consulate in eastern Libya was “a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists” linked to

Andy Hoffman, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – The daughter of a Burlington man who disappeared almost two weeks ago now fears he may be dead. “I’m not giving up hope,” said

By Henry Pierson Curtis, Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — In a session called “Protecting the Right to Protect,” George Zimmerman’s lawyer will speak this weekend at a convention of gun-rights activists.

By Mark K. Matthews, Orlando Sentinel – WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama ended a months-long fight over NASA relics this week when he signed into law a bill that confers full ownership of early

By Victoria Kim and Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—The filmmaker behind the anti-Islamic video that has sparked violence across the globe was arrested Thursday on suspicion of violating the

By Jonathan S. Landay and Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers – UNITED NATIONS — Armed with a cartoonlike picture of a smoldering bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday called on the world

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Syrian rebels penetrated checkpoints and concrete barriers Wednesday to attack the country’s military headquarters in an assault that left the facility scorched and

By David Ashenfelter, Elisha Anderson and Gina Damron, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — Police will be taking soil core samples at a home in the Detroit suburb of Roseville on Friday in

By Ludmilla Lelis and Arelis R. Hernandez, Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — The petite elderly woman flailed desperately in the canal behind her mobile home south of Leesburg. A neighbor drinking his

By Sandy Kleffman, Contra Costa Times – WALNUT CREEK, Calif.—This year’s largest earthquake — a magnitude-8.6 shaker in April in the East Indian Ocean — did little damage but had an unexpected impact:

By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—Planet Earth may be 4.5 billion years old, but that doesn’t mean she can’t serve up a shattering surprise now and again. Such was the

By Paul Richter, Tribune Washington Bureau – UNITED NATIONS — Egypt’s recently elected President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday rejected President Barack Obama’s view of free-speech rights and made plain his ambition to seize

By Hannah Allam and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers – NEW YORK — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday tied the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya to the creation

Vanessa Miller, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – UPDATE: Two brothers were arrested Tuesday in connection with a pair of bomb threats. Twice this school year, the threats shut down Iowa City’s

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – Far more civilians have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas than U.S. counterterrorism officials have acknowledged, a new study by human rights

By Albert Otti – BELLINZONA, Switzerland — Three engineers from the same family were convicted Tuesday in Switzerland for their central roles in an international smuggling network that has supplied the nuclear

By Farrukh Azeem – ISLAMABAD — A U.S. drone strike killed a senior al-Qaida figure and at least five other Islamist insurgents in northwestern Pakistan, an intelligence official said Tuesday. Abu Kasha

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — They’re calling it the swat heard ’round the world — and its echo is still reverberating. On Monday night, the school board in