Category: World

By Jon Stephenson, McClatchy Newspapers – KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — It was early in the morning, perhaps 2 a.m., when gunfire awoke 14-year-old Rafiullah. He looked outside the house he’d been sleeping in

By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — After architect Frank Gehry redesigned a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower in the nation’s capital, will Ike’s family like it now? Susan Eisenhower complained earlier that

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Obama administration is stepping up its courtship of active-duty military personnel and their families by offering them a free pass to any

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released an ambitious national plan to fight Alzheimer’s disease. The plan was called for in the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA), which President Obama

By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Capt. Jennifer Horton, of the Fresno County, Calif., Sheriff’s Department, stood erect in the near-shadow of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday. Her hand covered her

By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times – JOHANNESBURG — With an estimated 300 hostages currently in the hands of Somali pirates, the first attack on a pirate land base by the European

By Diana Moskovitz, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — A Miami-Dade fire captain has been demoted down to firefighter as punishment for a rant, posted on his personal Facebook page, about the Trayvon

Elizabeth Mohr, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. – Hennepin County authorities pulled a man’s body from the Mississippi River Tuesday, May 15, after he was seen jumping off the Franklin Avenue bridge.

I welcome President Karzai’s announcement today of the third tranche of areas to transition to Afghan security lead, which is an important step forward in our effort to achieve our objectives in

By Andrew Tangel and Noam N. Levey, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The first heads are expected to roll as early as this week at JPMorgan Chase & Co., after the

By Laura King and Aimal Yaqubi, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — A remote-controlled bomb killed a provincial council member and six other people in a northern province on Monday, Afghan

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times – NEW DELHI — A small plane with 21 people aboard crashed in Nepal on Monday morning, killing 15, including the pilot and co-pilot. The accident,

By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities responding to an anonymous tip discovered about 50 mostly mutilated bodies dumped on the side of a highway between Monterrey and

By Hares Kakar – KABUL — Gunmen killed a senior peace negotiator and former Taliban leader in the Afghan capital Kabul Sunday, officials said. Arsala Rahmani, a member of the High Peace

NEW HAMPTON, Iowa – May 7, 2012 – Road construction work on southbound Interstate 380 will require motorists to share the roadway with opposing traffic on northbound I-380 from the west interchange

By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — In response to growing concern about problems with its F-22 Raptor fighter jet, the Air Force revealed it has slapped on new

By Jon Stephenson, McClatchy Newspapers – KABUL, Afghanistan — Two members of the U.S.-led coalition were killed Saturday when two men wearing Afghan police uniforms opened fire on them at an undisclosed location

By Judy L. Thomas, McClatchy Newspapers – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First-class travel. Six-figure salaries for half the 132 officers and staffers. Plenty of plum jobs for family members. Life is good at

By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin will be able to take about eight months of paid leave from her county job, thanks to

By Jeff Weiner, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, released a Mother’s Day video online Thursday night asking for supporters to voice their opposition to

By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Two F-16 military fighter jets were dispatched Friday morning to intercept a general aviation airplane that violated airspace restrictions as President Barack

By Ken Dilanian, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican leaders of the congressional oversight committees are urging the Obama administration to formally designate Pakistan’s Haqqani Network a terrorist organization,

By Richard A. Serrano and Dalina Castellanos, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, asking a federal court to prevent the brazen and

By David S. Cloud, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Thursday that U.S. officials were doing everything possible to win the release of an American soldier

By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — Another Afghan soldier has turned his weapon on Western troops, killing one, the NATO force said Friday. Such attacks are becoming an urgent

By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Two F-16 military fighter jets were dispatched Friday morning to intercept a general aviation airplane that violated airspace restrictions as President Barack Obama

By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — More than a quarter of adult Americans — that’s nearly 60 million people — went to commercial casinos in 2011, according to

By Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Americans are dusting off their passports and seeing the world in big numbers. In the first two months of 2012, 8.1 million

By Mary Jean Spadafora, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — At the base of the Space Needle on Wednesday, former astronaut Buzz Aldrin announced that a recent law-school graduate from Arizona had

By Ahmad Pathoni – JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers on Thursday found no survivors in the wreckage of a Sukhoi passenger plane that crashed into an Indonesian mountain, an official with the Indonesian

By Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — With one high-profile haircut on the Paramount Studios lot, Vidal Sassoon vaulted to fame in Hollywood. Flown in from London, he trimmed the

By Lynn Bonner and Jay Price, McClatchy Newspapers – RALEIGH, N.C.—North Carolina has become the 31st state to add an amendment on marriage to its constitution, with voters banning same-sex marriage and barring

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Obama administration has approved a new natural gas drilling project in Utah that is designed to support more than 4,000 jobs

By Jung-Yoon Choi and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times – SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean customs said it had confiscated more than 17,000 “health” capsules smuggled from China that contain human

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times – NEW DELHI — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up a three-day visit to India Tuesday, downplaying differences over Iran, stressing the shared goal of

As a result of close cooperation with our security and intelligence partners overseas, an improvised explosive device (IED) designed to carry out a terrorist attack has been seized abroad. The FBI currently

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times – NEW DELHI — As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top leaders in New Delhi on

By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – ISLAMABAD — An American development worker kidnapped last year from his home in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore has appeared in a video released