Lengthy period of deadlock, tension expected after Lebanese government crumbles. Good, brief primer on Lebanon's crisis (though from December). Events in Tunisia are symptomatic of what lies ahead. Arab rulers have striven to kill politics in all its forms. Honduras and Jamaica at odds over death of boat
Engine 28's Roy W. Chelsen is the first firefighter to die since the signing of the Sept. 11 responders' bill. "I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it." Obama in Tucson. Following
The defense of Jared Lee Loughner may depend on an insanity argument--after Hinckley, that outcome has become less likely. U.S. claims New York City charged millions to Medicaid for unnecessary services that sometimes contradicted medical advice. If the world's population had the same amount of living
North Korea, complete arseholes. Revelations from Wikileaks reduced to three points. Letter from Brazil on current views on TV Globo and from the president's office of favela violence. Saudi Arabia releases vulture accused of spying for Mossad, saying Saudis too have espionage animals. Hitchens: Besides obsessive and homicidal
Fabian Nuñez gave employee at the prison in which his son is incarcerated a Kindle, which was immediately returned. From the moment it was introduced in America, end-of-term clemency has remained controversial. TMN's Leah Finnegan considers Loughner's warning signs, explores what Pima could have
DeLay gets three years in prison for money-laundering convictions. Basque separatists ETA declare permanent cease-fire in Spain; Spain wants dissolution, weapons dissolved. Terrorist plots against Europe declining; Islamists responsible for only one of 2009's 294 attacks. Australian prime minister's pilots suspended for long night&
Op: Republicans didn't pull the trigger in Tucson, but they've stoked a firestorm of national anger that finally spun out of control. Last year, Pima Community College campus police responded to five "disruptions" by Jared Lee Loughner. Yet another divide in Arizona forms as
Chinese laborers built California's railroads; now China wants to bankroll California's high-speed trains. Sudan ought not to open a Pandora's box of African statelets wildly jumping to be set free. Naming suggestions for southern Sudan. From 1986-2005, drugs that began with the
How an insurance company let a teenager die, then spared no expense to save itself. White House orders Pentagon to cut budgets, likely to result in the first troop reductions since the end of the Cold War. Romanian witches use dead dogs, excrement to cast tax-repelling spell. It turns
Health spending in the U.S. flattened in 2009, as the recession forced many to forgo medical treatment. N.A.S.A. names 2012 the most scientifically flawed movie of all time--as if a neutrino particle could ever do that? Auburn football tumbles from fourth to 85th in academic
