Disunited Nations: President Obama and Russia’s Vladimir Putin delivered clashing views on the Syrian crisis yesterday at the United Nations, with Obama taking a smack at Putin’s support of the dictator Bashar al-Assad “The United States is prepared to work …

Permawar: Afghanistan is investigating reports that Mullah Muhammad Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is dead. Omar has not been seen in public since before the Taliban regime was toppled in 2001. A breakaway group of the Taliban claims …

The Supremes: The court issued rapid-fire decisions yesterday on executions, voting districts, air pollution, and Texas abortion clinics. The court gave Oklahoma the go-ahead to use an execution sedative that three inmates had argued is insufficient to avoid excruciating pain. …

The Bomber: At his formal death sentencing yesterday, Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apologized for the first time saying, “I am sorry for the lives that I’ve taken, for the suffering that I’ve caused you, for the damage that I’ve …