Category: World

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – SEATTLE — The Alaska Board of Game has refused to consider a request to establish an emergency no-hunting zone for wolves on the edge of

By Jim Wyss, The Miami Herald – BOGOTA, Colombia — Just hours after Venezuelan police caught Colombia’s top drug lord, Daniel Barrera, at a border town payphone and with his fingerprints burned

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Hubble Space Telescope has detected light from a small galaxy emitted just 500 million years after the big bang, a crucial

By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — An experimental drug can improve sociability in patients with fragile X syndrome and may be helpful as a treatment for autism, according

By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah and Joel Hood, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO—While Chicago’s teachers may have drawn national attention to their cause, it’s still unclear whether what was achieved at the bargaining table

Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – UPDATE: Iowa City police are responding to another bomb threat at Regina High School – about one month after a similar threat closed the school for a day until

By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – LAS VEGAS — An Arizona judge says police can immediately start enforcing the “show me your papers” provision of the state’s controversial immigration law, marking

By Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers – UNITED NATIONS — Weeks before Egypt’s landmark presidential election, the State Department invited Grammy-nominated singer Maiysha to mentor aspiring female vocalists in a very tense Cairo. The

By Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Officials have revealed some details of space shuttle Endeavour’s aerial tour of California, a final flight that is to include low-level passes

By Mel Frykberg, McClatchy Newspapers – CAIRO — The leader of an Islamist militia whose members are suspected of involvement in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week, killing

By Ellen Jean Hirst, Jennifer Delgado, Noreen Ahmed-Ullah and Joel Hood, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The Chicago Teachers Union’s House of Delegates decided Tuesday afternoon to end the city’s first teacher

By Juan Ortega and Arlene Satchell, Sun Sentinel – FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Miles offshore from South Florida, a U.S. Coast Guard search was under way Monday for a cruise ship passenger who

By Jason Meisner, Hal Dardick, Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah and Joel Hood, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Lawyers for Chicago Public Schools were rebuffed Monday in their hopes of winning a temporary restraining order

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times: ——— Thanks to the Obama administration and belated action by Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency is no longer in the business of torturing

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – Shell Alaska said Monday it has abandoned its efforts to drill into hydrocarbon deposits in the offshore Arctic after the latest in a series of

By Noreen Ahmed-Ullah, Joel Hood and Diane Rado, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that he will go to court to force an end to the Chicago teachers strike,

By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday renewed his campaign to get President Barack Obama to take a harder line toward Iran over its

Los Angeles Times – DARAYA, Syria — As he hid from soldiers in a field next to his neighborhood, a young man watched as a cat wandered down a street. Suddenly, it

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Pope Benedict XVI closed a three-day visit to Lebanon on Sunday with an impassioned plea for peace, reconciliation and interreligious harmony, the themes

By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – ALEPPO, Syria — Two months into the battle for Syria’s second largest city, the airstrikes have become a part of daily life. Sometimes they are deadly

By Noreen Ahmed-Ullah, Joel Hood and Diane Rado, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The Chicago teachers strike will continue Monday after the union’s House of Delegates refused to halt the walkout and sent

By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — In a disastrous day for the NATO force in Afghanistan, four American troops were gunned down Sunday by Afghan police, a U.S. airstrike

By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — Eight rural Afghan women gathering fuel for fires were killed Sunday by a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said, and

Steve Gravelle, CR Gazette – Few of Iowa’s smallest towns have a police department, but they’re still covered. State law requires incorporated communities to provide law enforcement either through their own police

By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL — Does a prince’s presence endanger those serving alongside him? The Taliban launched a rare all-out assault on the heavily fortified NATO base in southern

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday called on Christians and Muslims to forge a common front against warfare, even as battles raged in neighboring

By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times – CAIRO — As night fell Saturday and cars swerved around Tahrir Square tooting their horns, a stout woman in a black veil and robes screamed herself

By Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times – An Illinois teen has been arrested on suspicion of trying to detonate a car bomb in front of a Chicago bar, authorities said Saturday. The device

By David S. Cloud, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — When a senior U.S. general met in Beijing recently with Lt. Gen. Cai Yingting, the deputy chief of China’s armed forces, Cai forcefully

By Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger and Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Southern California men behind the anti-Islamic movie that has enraged the Arab world were influenced by a

By Hafiz Ahmadi – KABUL — A policeman shot dead four soldiers of the NATO-led international coalition in Afghanistan, the military said Sunday. Afghan police said the incident took place in Mizan

By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers – BEIJING — Anti-Japanese protests flared in more than a dozen cities across China on Saturday, with some demonstrators trying to storm police barricades outside Japan’s embassy in

By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Soon to be listed among the Big Macs and McFlurrys on every McDonald’s menu board and drive-thrus across the country: Calorie counts. As

By Matt Campbell and Christine Vendel, The Kansas City Star – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A gunman shot a Kansas City Royals parking lot employee Friday afternoon outside Kauffman Stadium and then

By Joseph Serna and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—A fast-moving brush fire in the Sepulveda Pass in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley that snarled traffic across the Westside

By T. Keung Hui, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – RALEIGH, N.C.— A middle school teacher who is Catholic remains suspended with pay while the Wake County school system investigates her

By Anne Danahy, Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) – UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State trustees on Friday held off on renaming the child care center that currently is named for