Parents of girls kidnaped by Boko Haram protested for the Nigerian government to take action to rescue their daughters.

Vladimir Putin calls for Ukraine to remove Ukrainian troops from southeast Ukraine.

How about withdrawing the Russian troops from southeast Ukraine, eh Putin?

Ukraine says it will impose conscription to build up its army.

It would take 6 months to a year for this to have any practical effect. I expect that the crisis will be over by then.

Tennessee passed a law to punish drug addicts that get pregnant.

The ideal solution for such situations is an abortion, but the same Republicans who want to punish these women for getting pregnant are also trying to deny them the abortions that would enable them to become un-pregnant, and from the contraception that would enable them not to become pregnant. These religious fanatics want a chance to make someone suffer, and they have seized on the weakest possible victims: the babies they can force pregnant addicts to have.

After Naji Mansour refused to work for the FBI, the FBI had him tortured in Sudan.

A >transcript of his conversation with the FBI.

The US has had at least 8 US citizens imprisoned, even tortured, by other pliant governments, and one of them has been sentenced to life in prison based on a worthless confession probably tortured out of him.

The full harshness of No Child Left Alone has fallen on every school in Washington State.