* 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
The United States is a huge country, much too big for the nightly news. Our series continues where one of our editors randomly calls people in small towns around America to find out what’s really going on.
* 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
The Hereros of Namibia added Victorian fashion into their traditional costume under German influence in the late 19th and early 20th century. Photographer Jim Naughten explains how he became fascinated with this community.
* 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
