Nation: Police in Colorado Springs shot it out with a gunman inside the offices of the local Planned Parenthood yesterday afternoon. Police convinced the gunman to give up, but only after three people were killed, including a police officer. Four …

Shop ‘til You Drop: A couple of guys clearly in the holiday mood brawled in a Louisville shopping mall early today as the Christmas shopping madness kicked off. More than a 100 million Americans are expected to hit the stores …

World at War: Trying to head off a predicted terror attack, Belgian police arrested 21 people in 27 raids in the past day, but didn’t grab the man they wanted most, Salah Abdeslam, who is believed to be the planner …

World at War: Central Brussels was in shutdown last night as soldiers patrolled the streets and investigators were on the hunt for Salah Abdeslam, the man who thought to have been the planner of the Paris attacks. By some reports …

War in the Air: Russia says it was definitely a bomb that took down a chartered airliner over the Sinai desert two weeks ago. Explosive residue was found in the wreckage. Alexander V. Bortnikov, the head of the country’s Federal …

War in Paris: Investigators have begun to identify the Paris attackers, one of whom carried a Syrian passport and had recently passed through Greece as a refugee. Three men believed to be connected to the attacks were arrested in Molenbeek, …

Flight Path: Investigators say “a noise was heard in the last moments of the cockpit voice recording of the Russian Metrojet charter that went down in the Sinai desert. They have yet to analyze the noise and determine what it …

Nation: Authorities in Fox Lake, Ill. outside Chicago are preparing to report today that the death of a popular police lieutenant in September was a suicide, not a murder. Lt. Charles Gliniewicz, 52, had radioed in that he was out …

Testing One, Two: The Obama administration is reversing education policy of recent years, now saying there’s too much emphasis on testing in public schools. The Administration is calling upon Congress to “reduce over-testing” and have no more than 2 percent …

Weather Report: The category 5 Hurricane Patricia, described as the strongest storm ever to hit the Western Hemisphere, made landfall on Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast last night. Winds of 160 mph carrying heavy rain caused tree falls and landslides. The …