Category: World

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — As Israel ramped up its threat to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons cache, Syria’s embattled government said Monday that its weapons were secure and

By Ashley Powers and Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times – AURORA, Colo. — It was 12:39 a.m. Friday when the normal rhythms of Aurora went horrifyingly awry. The first inkling came in

By Farah Mohamed, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Around 20,000 delegates — researchers, activists, advocates and policymakers — from more than 200 countries came to the Washington Convention Center on Sunday to

By Inga Saffron, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — By the time word came Sunday that Pennsylvania State University was taking down Joe Paterno’s statue, there was not much doubt or mixed

By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times – PARIS—French President Francois Hollande on Sunday made an emotional mea culpa on behalf of his country for its part in the World War II roundup

By Matt Carroll and Chris Rosenblum, McClatchy Newspapers – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Gayle Barnes watched early Sunday as workers wearing hard hats and wielding jackhammers did what once would have been

By Lisa Demer, McClatchy Newspapers – EAGLE RIVER, Alaska — On a private trail above Eagle River Road, high up in the brush where bears are common, a man hiking with his

By Matt Carroll, McClatchy Newspapers – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Peter Russell hit the books Sunday evening at the other Penn State landmark bearing Joe Paterno’s name. Hours earlier, the statue of

By Marjie Lundstrom, McClatchy Newspapers – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A prominent neurosurgeon at the University of California, Davis, was banned from performing medical research on humans after he and a colleague were

By Chris Rosenblum, Matt Carroll and Guy Cipriano, McClatchy Newspapers – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — As the Joe Paterno statute disappeared into Beaver Stadium, freshly uprooted, Vincent Tedesco had a replacement handy.

By Mike Dawson, McClatchy Newspapers – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Sixteen-year-old Ashley Beamer choked up as it hit her — the weeklong summer camp associated with the Second Mile charity she looks

Matt Morgan, Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa. – UNIVERSITY PARK — Marty Robbins had only seen the Joe Paterno statue on television. Traveling from his home in Cincinnati, Robbins knew this

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Alexandra Zavis and Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times – AURORA, Colo. — Bad guys have a way of bringing out the best in people, whether on screen or in

By John M. Glionna, Matt Stevens and Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times – AURORA, Colo. — The robot snaked methodically through the apartment, creeping past wires, bottles, fuses and volatile shells. One

By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — The alleged gunman in the Colorado theater shootings enjoyed the company of a few high school friends who liked to play cards,

By Jon Busdeker, The Orlando Sentinel – The civil rights movement’s anthem “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round” could be heard from blocks away Saturday as more than 50 members of

By Alexandra Zavis and Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – AURORA, Colo. — Officials said they believed that the major threat of explosions had been eliminated at the booby-trapped apartment of James

By Michael Linhorst, Erinn Connor and Sachi Fujimori, The Record (Hackensack N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J. — The man who police say killed 12 people in a Colorado movie theater early Friday was

By Ashley Powers, Los Angeles Times – AURORA, Colo. — Stephen Barton and his friend Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent had pedaled their bikes 80 exhausting miles Thursday as part of a cross-country tour. They

By Laura J. Nelson, Jenny Deam and Rick Rojas, Los Angeles Times – AURORA, Colo. — Jessica Ghawi narrowly escaped a murderous rampage at a shopping center in Toronto last month, deciding

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Fighting raged for a sixth consecutive day in Damascus, opposition activists said Friday, even as Syria’s government declared that it had routed

By Janet Stobart, Los Angeles Times – LONDON — Already coping with a shortage of private security staff, the organizers of the 2012 Olympic Games in London are now facing the threat

By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Police agencies across Southern California will have undercover officers inside movie theaters in the wake of the “Dark Knight” cinema shooting in

By Eric Adler and Ian Cummings, McClatchy Newspapers – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Like the rest of America, Jessika Miller, 21, of Blue Springs, Mo., awoke Friday to what she called “shocking”

Orlan Love, CR Gazette – CASCADE – The parents of fallen soldier Michael Ristau said Friday that freedom is not free and they accept the cost. “We don’t feel he died in

By Joe Flint, Ben Fritz and Meg James, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Broadcast and cable channels across the country, including NBC, CBS and ESPN, scrambled Friday to remove advertising

By Rene Lynch, Los Angeles Times – The movie theater massacre that took place in Aurora, Colo., early Friday morning unfolded about 15 miles from the scene of the Columbine High School

By Julie Makinen and Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The shooting rampage at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Colorado early Friday left theater owners and

By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — San Diego police on Friday morning arrived at the home of a woman who has identified herself as the mother of the

By Paul Richter and Edmund Sanders, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — After pressing for 16 months for a change of government in Syria, the Obama administration is trying to prevent growing

By Clare Byrne – PARIS — Hundreds of people gathered at the site of a World War II internment camp outside Paris on Monday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the mass

By Patrick J. McDonnell and Emily Alpert, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a draft United Nations resolution that could have led to sanctions against the

By Carlos Sadovi, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Tiesha Powell has a new nickname for her 10-month-old son: “Aladdin.” A friend suggested it after little Kyan survived a fall from the family’s

By Tonya Root, McClatchy Newspapers – NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.— The pilot of a plane carrying a banner jumped from his aircraft just before it crashed into the ocean near North Myrtle

By Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — George Zimmerman told a national TV audience on Wednesday that he doesn’t regret anything that happened the night he

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — As Israeli victims of the Bulgarian bus bombing began arriving home Thursday, security officials said they now believe the attack was carried out