* Nor could I compare Obama favorably to Bush...most Iraqi Kurds prefer the muscle of a Republican in office. * Fifteen-year-old Nobel Peace Prize nominee returns to school after Taliban gunmen shot her in the head for supporting girls' education. * Reid: "The time for watered-down and
* U.S. asks for Rwanda's help shipping war-crimes suspect to The Hague; suspect suspected of knowing Rwanda's secrets. * Obama's limousine refuses to start after someone fills it with gas, not diesel. * According to records, adverse psychological reactions to combat never even approached the
* This week marks the 21st anniversary of Hezbollah's 1992 Israeli embassy bombing; modern Europe should pay heed. * Hamas launches program to teach Hebrew in Gaza schools, with neither a strategic nor conciliatory agenda. * Study finds truck drivers who consume caffeine are 63% less likely to crash than drivers
* More than a dozen car bombs and suicide blasts kill nearly 60 around Iraq on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion. * Five takes on whether America is better off now than it was when Saddam Hussein was in power. * Reed rejects Feinstein's assault-weapons ban
* Does it destroy a teenager’s life to take him off the path of being an adult rapist? * Excerpts from the RNC's surprisingly frank election postmortem. * International sanctions are leaving Iran's hospitals without supplies—surgeons are resorting to "old drugs." * FBI says it knows
* Few statistics exist for Syria's uprising, but Assad's army is estimated to be half its size, certain of the loyalty of only 50,000 soldiers. * Blogger who helped bring the Steubenville rape case to national attention explains her investigative process. * Rape is that unique crime in
* U.S. must decide whether to break from policy and permit South Korea to go nuclear and deflect northern aggression. * Brandon Maxfield was shot when he was seven; now 26 and a quadriplegic, he's been a major force behind the end of cheap, unsafe guns. * Cypriots panic as
* Steubenville teenagers found guilty of rape, highlighting the increasing use of social media as evidence in court. * Investigation continues for people who may have failed to come forward—students, parents, coaches. * Obama will resist Israeli pressure to attack Iran, Israel won't commit to a peace process, and Syria
* To get pregnant, some Palestinian women are smuggling their husbands' sperm out of jail. * Why the new pope's chosen name could signal a renewed focus and global presence for the church. * Italy refuses to send marines accused of killing two fishermen back to India for trial. * Cofounder
* North Korea accuses U.S. and South Korea of cyber attack and staging preparations for war. * Point: In the "randy" CIA, spies and handlers screw around a lot, and we want them to, in order to be good at their jobs. * Counterpoint: Real spies are promiscuous, true, but
