Virginia Tech shooter identified as 23-year-old senior Cho Seung Hui. Profiles of the victims start to emerge, including one Holocaust survivor. Who the Virginia Tech shooter isn't. Can a bank be held liable for what a heroin addict spends their loan on? Egyptian bloggers--the pyjamahideen-
Questions, anger over the two-hour gap between the first shooting and Virginia Tech's first email to students. (Emails are here.) Interactive map depicts times and locations of the killings, and when and how the university and police reacted. A look at the students who may have been
At least 30 dead at Virginia Tech in deadliest campus shooting in American history. Study finds little improvement in arrest rates after California mandates drug treatment over incarceration. So many men had passed through Cell 6 that they had left their smell on the walls, and while I was making
Two days before his hearing, Gonzales releases testimony denying any wrongdoing--but Specter says the real issue is if he can do his job. Tornadoes, flooding, cancelled flights: This weekend's storm wrecked havoc across the eastern U.S., and shattered seaboard rainfall records. Four days after his car
L.A.'s Sugar Shack fights for their mural, or, how to be a hippie in the 21st-century. Mexican drug traffickers resort to medieval tactics, post heads on roadside stakes. It became clear that the number of work-related nailgun injuries had stayed stable since 1998. It was
Yesterday's Iraqi Parliament bomber was likely a security guard, possibly connected to al Qaeda. "Nowhere is safe," says Paliament member. That said, pockets of stability are beginning to emerge in Baghdad. White House seems to have lost--or allowed to be deleted--several years of Karl
In what is considered to be the most severe security breach of the Green Zone yet, a blast inside the Iraqi Parliament kills at least one BBC leads international day of action to free its kidnapped reporter who is reported "safe and well" in Palestine. Turkey hopes now
Yesterday's bomb attacks in Algeria linked to Al Qaeda's escalating violence in North Africa. Math on the likelihood of a nuclear attack in the U.S. Global economics as model trains: The world will decouple if U.S. has a soft landing; it will not decouple
Al Qaeda's involvement is suspected as two separate bomb attacks kill at least 17 in Algeria today. Philadelphia woman shot in head at vigil for shooting victim; murder rate higher in Philly this year than in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. All charges dropped in the Duke
Militants and residents fight Iraqi Army and Americans in longest sustained battle since Baghdad's new security plan. Red Cross: Life is getting worse for all Iraqis; Oxford Research Group: The war in Iraq supports terrorism. Four-star generals spurn Bush's offer to become "war czar.
