Wave of car bombs, shooting in mainly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad kill 21, officials say
And in the capital’s northern Chikok district, two civilians were killed and 10 were wounded when a car bomb missed a police patrol that was passing through, two other police officers said. In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide attacker ...

Obama honors officer who died in motorcade, other fallen police
Speaking at the 32nd annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Wednesday, President Barack Obama publicly honored ... and in a moment that few of us will ever forget, the citizens of Watertown, Mass., lining their streets to cheer on and high ...

As Larger British Rivals Perk Up, a Heralded Small Bank Stumbles
LONDON — Just as larger banks in Britain are recovering from the financial crisis, a smaller one championed by lawmakers as an alternative to institutions like Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland is floundering, complicating the government’s ...

Burying Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Virginia
FOR ALMOST A WEEK, the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, remained at a funeral home in Massachusetts because no cemetery or community would accept it. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) was right when he ...

3D Printing Might Make Gun Regulation RIAA vs. NRA
In the 3D-printed future, politicians who oppose the NRA might do best by aligning themselves with the RIAA if the YouTube takedown of a video of Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson successfully firing the first all-3D-printed gun is a harbinger. The visual ...

Man accused of killing 14-year-old Shaniesha Forbes of Brooklyn thought she was pregnant
He thought she was pregnant — so he killed her, cops say. The 20-year-old man accused of smothering 14-year-old Shaniesha Forbes to death and dumping her body on a Brooklyn beach told detectives he murdered the teen because she told him she ...