Gingrich Is Quitting the Race (Just Give Him a Little Time)
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Newt Gingrich arrived at the Penske Racing plant here on Thursday accompanied by a large security detail protecting him from a big threat — of rain. Otherwise, Mr. Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and presumptive campaign drop-out, pretty much had the run of the place. He was unbothered by [...]
Ex-President of Liberia Aided War Crimes, Court Rules
THE HAGUE — Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia and once a powerful warlord, was convicted by an international tribunal on Thursday of arming, supporting and guiding a brutal rebel movement that committed mass atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s. He is the first head of state to [...]
Big Sporting Events Find New Frontiers
When the Summer Olympics open in July with the lighting of the caldron in London, it will mark the return of one of the world’s greatest sporting events to one of global sport’s traditional strongholds. This will be the third time that London has staged the Games — it was also the host in 1908 [...]
Israel Retroactively Legalizes 3 West Bank Settlements
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government on Tuesday retroactively legalized three Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank, and moved to delay the scheduled evacuation of a fourth, in a provocative move that some critics said marked the first establishment of new settlements in two decades. But while antisettlement advocates saw it as a significant shift [...]
Group Says It Has Ceased Bomb Threats on Campus
As students headed to final exams at the University of Pittsburgh this week, with many exhausted and frustrated by more than 100 bomb threats that have disrupted classes and emptied dorms, they were hoping there would be no further evacuations now that a group has announced its bomb threat campaign is over. Calling itself the [...]
Murdoch Case Shifts Its Focus to a Minister
LONDON — The long-running tabloid newspaper scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire delivered a new jolt on Tuesday as its powerful and lucrative television operations moved to the center of a British judicial inquiry with disclosures that a senior cabinet minister, or at least an aide claiming to speak for him, worked [...]