It’s Political: The five remaining Republican candidates have a debate in Houston tonight that needs to be a game changer for the four trailing Donald Trump. The question is whether Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, and Carson will savage each other or …

Drachma Drama: Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis accuses his country’s creditors of “terrorism” on the eve of a national vote on whether to accept a new bailout. “Why did they force us to close the banks?” he asked in an …

Nation: Thirty-five years after the crime, the trial has started for a man accused of kidnapping and killing little Etan Patz, whose disappearance May 25, 1979 in New York has been one of the most notorious missing child cases in …

Finish Line: Former Massachusetts Gov.Mitt Romney, who has talked for months like The Man Who Would Be President, announced to his supporters this morning that he is not going to make a third run for the presidency, according to several …

Massacre: In a continuing war against education, yesterday’s Taliban attack on a Pakistani school in Peshawar resulted in the death of 141 people, 132 of them just schoolchildren. Authorities say nine Taliban gunmen assaulted the compound of the Army Public …

Intel: The US yesterday released satellite images that it says are proof Russia has fired rockets from its own territory into eastern Ukraine. The images show Russian self-propelled artillery on their side of the border and the position of a …

Ukraine: Thirty-four rebels and four Ukrainian soldiers were killed in fighting to re-take the city of Sloviansk from pro-Russian gunmen. The fighting in Sloviansk has been the government’s biggest effort to reassert control in Eastern Ukraine as rebels control key …

Debris: Malaysia’s defense minister says new satellite images show 122 objects floating in the Indian Ocean that might come from the missing Flight 370. The objects, some of them 75 feet long, are scattered over an area of 154 square …

Jersey Shaw: New Jersey’s Lieutenant Governor this morning denied holding Hoboken’s storm relief money hostage in exchange for approval of a major development deal.   It’s a case of she said, she said. As Chris Christie’s political swamp grows, the …

Illegitimate: Deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi appeared briefly in court for the opening of his trial today. It was his first public appearance since he was forced from office in July. Reports from the courtroom were limited, but witnesses in …