* Police raids in five towns around Paris net 12 suspects in connection with last week's terror attacks. * An anthropologist explains the Paris attacks. * In Belgium, terrorists killed in firefight with police; they were suspected of planning attacks on Jewish schools in Antwerp and Brussels. * France is seeing a
* Charges filed against Iguala mayor in the October kidnapping and disappearance of 43 students. * Reelected after pleading guilty to sex with a minor, Virginia State senator spends half his day in office and half in jail. * Defending pot legalization, 2Chainz lays out a conservative philosophy. * See also: Transcription errors lead
Idea for a television show: a teenager has the power to turn fantasy into reality—but she doesn’t know it. It's “Amelia Bedelia” meets “Quantum Leap.”
* What to expect in the new Charlie Hebdo: crude sexual cartoons, and one lampooning Je Suis Charlie T-shirts. * Reckoning with Charlie Hebdo requires confronting France's racist, unexorcised past. * In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks, David Cameron vows to crack down on "safe
* Central Command hackers claimed to be ISIS, but were mere pranksters, Pentagon says. * Just because Centcom's Twitter account has been hacked doesn't automatically mean that Centcom itself has been hacked. * Excellent Human Rights Watch report on the crisis in the Central African Republic, where the UN
You can learn how to read a poem, but you can’t choose how it will affect you. Here, a little cough launches a journey through a reader’s mind.
Paintings of divers, ships at sea, and Superman—wearing underpants or not—find common ground in quiet mystery.
* Several million people spill into Paris streets for anti-terrorism rally, the country's largest in history. * Kerry deflects criticism that no high-ranking White House officials marched in Paris, says he'll drop in on Thursday. * Terrorists behind France attacks collaborated while claiming allegiance to rival factions
* Hostage situations in Paris related to the Charlie Hebdo attack and yesterday's murder of a police officer. * Dozens of Charlie Hebdo front pages from around the world. * Police officer Ahmed Merabet died protecting a magazine that ridiculed his faith. * US officials believe al Qaeda may be behind the
* Police officer shot dead south of Paris; one man is arrested, one is on the run—no known link to the Charlie Hebdo attack. * A rundown of what's currently known about the three suspected Charlie Hebdo attackers. * Former Onion editor: The saddest, most profoundly ironic thing about it
