June 3,  2015 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

Texas floods:

• After 35 trillion gallons of rain, Texans search for the missing – and closure (+video)
• Cattle Drive Saves Hundreds Of Cows Stranded By Texas Flooding (NPR)
• Soaked Texans Brace For More Storms After 7 More Inches Of Rain Fall (NPR)
• IsraAID sending team to join Texas flood relief effort (JPost)

Other national news:

• As The Arctic Opens Up, The U.S. Is Down To A Single Icebreaker (NPR)
• U.S. removes Cuba from list of terrorism sponsors (LA Times)
• Leaked Repot: DHS and soverign citizens   (Reason) 
• It's a Match (Reason)
• What Beau Biden represented in American politics (CS Monitor)
• If NSA surveillance program ends, phone record trove will endure (LA Times)
• Silk Road mastermind: drug kingpin or libertarian ideologue gone astray? (CS Monitor)
• Yahoo must face email spying class action: U.S. judge (Reuters)
• Appeals court blocks 12-week ban on abortion as unconstitutional (CS Monitor)
• San Diego State Study: Millennials Might Be Least-Religious Generation (KPBS)
• IRS believes massive data theft originated in Russia (CNN)

WORLD

• Russia moves to silence civil society and its 'undesirable' contacts (CS Monitor)
• Putin classifies Russian soldiers' deaths while denying Ukraine buildup (CS Monitor)
• Islamic State suicide attack kills 38 Iraqi policemen (Reuters)
• Cyber-Archeologists Re-Create Destroyed Artifacts (NPR)
• Did Russia impose a secret travel ban on European politicians?
• Under Cover Of Conflict, Hamas Killed Palestinians, Amnesty Alleges (NPR)
• Cyberattack tied to Hezbollah ups the ante for Israel's digital defenses (CS Monitor)
• Five weeks after big quake, Nepal's schools reopen (CS Monitor)
• Squeezing Somalia (Reason)
• Man arrested in Cyprus suspected of planning terror attack against Israelis (JPost)
• Video shows Canada Parliament gunman praying before attack (Reuters)
• Gravely ill Russian opposition figure won't be sent abroad (AP)
• Assad regime kills dozens with barrel bombs, rights group says (JPost)

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May 20, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• House approves bill that would end NSA bulk collection of data (Huffington Post)
• FBI: hacker claims to have taken over flight’s engine controls (CNN)
• Picking strawberries for U.S. tables has workers in Mexico asking for more (Reuters)
• Wreckage of U.S. chopper found in Nepal (10 News)
• Extreme El Nino expected to wreak havoc on weather this year  (New Scientist)
• Drought drains nation’s largest reservoir  (New Scientist)
• Amtrak train that derailed sped up before crash (Time)

WORLD

• Islamic state seizes ancient Palmyra city from Syrian forces (Reuters)
• Islamic State seizes Iraqi army base  (Reuters)
• ISIS seizes capital of Iraq’s largest province (Washington Post)
• Fighting continues in Yemeni city despite truce (Reuters)
•  Israel intercepts 40 diving suits en route to Gaza (JPost)

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May 7, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

NATIONAL

• NSA phone surveillance not authorized: U.S. appeals court (Reuters)
• How Utah reduced homelessness by more than 90 percent (CS Monitor)
• U.S. government to pay New Mexico $73 million over radiation leak (Reuters)
• Exclusive: U.S. boosts bird flu emergency funds as Hormel cuts jobs (Reuters)
• Small town evacuated after oil train derails in North Dakota (Reuters)
• Ferry service between US and Cuba to resume (CS Monitor)
• Power Problems: Puerto Rico's Electric Utility Faces Crippling Debt (NPR)
• Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting (Washington Post)

INTERNATIONAL

• European Union wants new rules for its digital economy (APM Marketplace)
• Virtual Volunteers Use Twitter And Facebook To Make Maps Of Nepal (NPR)
• Rocket-propelled grenade forced down Mexican helicopter(AP)
• On becalmed sea, Italy rescues nearly 4,000 migrants in 24 hours (CS Monitor)
• More than 50 Thai police punished over human trafficking links (Reuters)
• German spies curb Internet snooping for U.S. after row: media (Reuters)
• Kenya Pushes For Close Of Word's Largest Refugee Camp (NPR)
• Israel veterans group alleges Israeli misconduct in Gaza war (AP)
• Africa's richest economy surviving on borrowed cash (AP)

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April 23 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Ohio cop's refusal to shoot: a model of police restraint? (+video) (CS Monitor)
• DEA chief to step down, Congress probes sex party leaks (Reuters)
• FBI says hair-match experts gave flawed testimony: Post (Reuters)
• Gravity Payments CEO Will Live on $70,000 Worker Wage, Thinks His Life Will Be Luxe Enough
• Hundreds gather for 20^th anniversary of deadly Oklahoma City bombing  (Washington Post)
• Bankruptcy shields GM from some liability cases (APM Marketplace)
• What do Americans really think about abortion? The answer may surprise you. (CS Monitor)
• Feds Cancel Commercial Sardine Fishing After Stocks Crash (NPR)
• Rules For No-Fly List Disclosures Get An Update (NPR)

WORLD

• In El Salvador, women thrown in jail for miscarriages and stillbirths (Associated Press)
• Iran releases ‘fact sheet’ of nuclear agreement at odds with US version (JPost)
• Migrants Threw Christians Overboard, Italian Police Say (Reuters)
• Turkish ‘documentary’ says Jews have been ‘mastermind’ for 3,500 years (JPost)
• Media reports say Mexican police were involved in January killings (Reuters)
• Up to 700 feared dead after migrant boat sinks off Libya (JPost)
• Colombia frees Chinese ship caught carrying weapons illegally (Reuters)
• Auschwitz bookkeeper admits 'moral guilt' in trial (CS Monitor)

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April 8, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• South Carolina policeman charged with murder after video of shooting emerges (CNN) 
• Money Rules: Candidates Go Around The Law, As Cash Records To Be Smashed (NPR) 
• Rand Paul’s terrifying vision for America: the truth about his plan for “economic freedom zones” (Salon.com) 
• Lindsey Graham: Too green for the GOP? (Politico)
• China peeved as Hillary Clinton denounces women’s detention (Reuters)
• Appeals court sides with Obama over 2012 deportation program (The Hill)
• Obama supports reduction in military retirement pay (Washington Post) 
• GPS monitoring of sex offenders for life? Supreme Court reverses N.C. case. (CS Monitor)

WORLD

• In Iraq, a historic Christian library saved from militants (UT San Diego) 
• U.S. supports, would cooperate with proposed Arab force: Carter (Reuters)
• Canadian Parliament backs air strikes on Islamic State in Syria (Reuters) 
• Hezbollah praises US-Iran nuclear deal as 'victory' (JPost)
• Palestinian Camp In Syria Reportedly Seized By Extremist Fighters (NPR)
• Kenya attack targets Christians, putting new pressure on religious leaders (CS Monitor) 
• Ukrainian Protestants Say Religious Intolerance Rising In Donetsk (NPR) 
• Boko Haram attacks polling stations as voting continues in Nigeria (+video) (CS monitor)
• Pemex oil platform fire kills four in Gulf of Mexico, 302 evacuated (Reuters) 
• Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities (Pew Forum) 

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March 26, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• House Passes Bill Changing Medicare Fee Formula and Extending Children’s Insurance (NY Times)
• What is driving a remarkable shift in US-Afghan relations? (+video) (CS Monitor)
• McCain: Pentagon wasting money training drug-sniffing elephants (The Hill)
• Government report finds U.S. Homeland Security deputy intervened in visa cases (Reuters)
• DEA agents held ‘sex parties’ with prostitutes paid for by drug cartels (The Hill)

WORLD

• U.S. offering tactical, intel support to Saudi airstrikes in Yemen (The Hill)
• U.S.-led coalition, Iraqis pound Islamic State in Tikrit (Reuters)
• Recording shows pilot locked out of Airbus cockpit before crash: NYT (Reuters)
• Boko Haram kidnaps hundreds of Nigerian civilians, official says (+video) (CS Monitor)
• Why the Nicaragua canal poses new challenge to Ortega's power (+video) (CS Monitor)
• 200 suspected jihadis prevented from leaving Australia (UT San Diego)
• Islamic State claims suicide bombing in Libya's Benghazi (Reuters)
• Jordan signs $10 billion nuclear power plant deal with Russia (Reuters)
  

February 25, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• 24 Pictures That Perfectly Capture How Insane The Snow In New England Is (Buzzfeed)
• Big US, Canadian shopping malls: Next terrorist target? (CS Monitor)
• Now You Can Sign Up To Keep Drones Away From Your Property (NPR)
• The Government’s War on Freedom of the Press (Reason)
• Anti-Semitic, Pro-Islamic State Graffiti Continues to Plague D.C. (Free Beacon)
• Anti-Semitism Spikes in the Badger State Tablet Magazine)
• The great Sim heist: how spies stole the keys to the encryption castle (The Intercept)
• Federal government: average of 10 fuel trains may derail each year (CS Monitor)
• Two men sentenced to 25 years in plot to attack Americans in Afghanistan (Reuters)
•   Supreme Court Considers Visa Case For Foreign Spouses (NPR)
•  U.S. jury orders Palestinian groups to pay attack victims $218.5 million (Reuters)

WORLD

• ISIS parades caged Kurdish fighters through Iraqi streets (JPost)
• Saudi Preacher says US never went to moon, offers 'rational' proofs Earth doesn't revolve (JPost)
• Reliving the 1930s (Town Hall)
• Denmark’s Jewish Radio Station Shuts Down (Tablet Magazine)
• Two bombs explode at residence of Iranian ambassador in Libya (JPost)
• How Russia forces its soldiers to fight against Ukraine (CS Monitor)
• After the terrorist attacks: Children deregister from Jewish school (Danmarks Radio)
• Photos: Islamic State torches musical instruments, cigarrettes in Libya
• Icelandic bankers sentenced to prison (Icelandic Review)
• WATCH: Jerusalem mayor tackles Arab terrorist seconds after suspect stabs Jewish man (JPost)

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February 11, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Obama asks Congress to authorize 3-year ISIS fight (NY Times)
• U.S. leads 12 air strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military (Reuters)
• Electrified rail pierced New York train in crash, official says (Reuters)
• Could a Single Food-Safety Agency be the Answer? (Reason)
• This Valentine's Day growers hope 'slow flower' movement will take root  (CS Monitor)
• Three in St. Louis indicted for helping ISIS and Al Qaeda (CS Monitor)

WORLD

• The TransAsia crash and the rise of dashcam journalism (+video) (CS Monitor)
• Troops kill eight in highway battles in northern Mexico (Reuters)
• September 11 conspirator Moussaoui says Saudi royals backed al Qaeda (Reuters)
• Muslim clerics demand 'crucifixion' of ISIS terrorists who burned Jordanian pilot to death (JPost)
• UK anti-Semitic incidents hit record in 2014, says charity (AP)
• Jewish groups rap German anti-Semitism commission for omitting Jews (Reuters)
• Boko Haram kill more than 100 in Cameroon: local leader (Reuters)
• After Horrific Taliban Massacre, Pakistani Teachers Are Bringing Concealed Weapons to School

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January 15, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Student Tuition Now Outweighs State Funding At Public Colleges (NPR)
• U.S. border drone program understates cost, efficiency: report (Reuters) 
• Only 2 percent of US counties have recovered from Great Recession. Why? (CS Monitor)
• Coming soon to a workplace near you: 'wellness or else' (Reuters)
• 2014 attacks on Jews in U.S. Midwest detailed in report (Reuters)
• Petraeus Should Face Charges, Prosecutors Say (NPR)
• U.S. to cut European military bases as budgets shrink (Reuters)
• Honda Fined $70 Million For Underreporting Safety Issues (NPR)

WORLD

• Britain's MI5 chief warns al Qaeda in Syria planning mass attacks on West (Reuters)
• 2,000 feared dead in Boko Haram’s deadliest massacre (CNN)
• Jes Suis Charlie: Cartoonists from around the world
• 3 million copies of Charlie Hebdo to feature Mohammed cartoons (Yahoo News)
• Massive crowds join march for solidarity in Paris (Reuters)
• Does Islam Prohibit Images of Mohammed? Nope. Does It Command Death to Blasphemers? Nope. (Reason)
• Mexican mayor faces charges in kidnapping of 43 students (Reuters)
• Mexico holding 13 police officers in journalist's kidnapping (UT San Diego)
• Netanyahu at Paris victims' funeral: Time for civilized world to uproot enemies in our midst (JPost)
• Saudi Blogger To Be Publicly Flogged For Insulting Islam (CS Monitor)
• Man who stopped Ottawa shooter to become ambassador (AP)
• More than one million flee, Ukraine close to 'humanitarian catastrophe' (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• Thousands flee intensifying India-Pakistan clashes (Reuters)
• In Iraq's war against extremists, a quiet sectarian purge (AP)
• Report: Syria's Assad building facility for the production of nuclear weapons (JPost)

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December 29, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• On Christmas, Obama marks end of Afghan combat (USA Today)
• Jeb Bush jumps to head of Republicans’ 2016 race (The Hill)
• Half of all children will be autistic by 2025, warns senior research scientist at MIT
•  Poll finds Clinton up 57 points on Warren (The Hill)
• As drones are given as gifts, FDA issues warning (CBS)
• If cyberwar erupts, America's electric grid is a prime target (CS Monitor)
• Viral secret Santa story inspires millions (CBS)
• Requiring Abortion Doctors to Narrate Ultrasound Violates First Amendment, 4th Circuit Rules (Reason)
• Getting High Safely: Aspen Launches Marijuana Education Campaign (NPR)

WORLD

• Air Asia jet “likely at bottom of the sea,” airline official says (CBS)
• Pope’s Christmas message: Iraq and Syria have suffered too long (CNN)
• Coalition strikes kill another ISIS governor (CNN)
• Death toll rises in Greek ferry disaster (CBS)
• After 522 years, Spain seeks to make amends for expulsion of Jews (KPBS)
• Pope treats homeless to new sleeping bags (AFP)
• France steps up patrols after spate of lone-wolf attacks (Reuters)
•  Saudi women drivers referred to terrorism court (AP)
• Islamic State targeted in 39 strikes by U.S., allies: Task Force
• New Russian military doctrine says NATO top threat
• Third priest killed in dangerous southern Mexico

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December 10, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Democrats balk at spending bill, raising shutdown risks (Reuters)
• Giveaways to Wall Street and nation’s wealthiest in spending bill (Common Dreams)
• Falling gas prices may boost the U.S. economy (Los Angeles Times)
• A first: National debt passes $18 trillion (APM Marketplace)
• 24 states now suing Obama over immigration (CNN)

WORLD

• Malala, Satyarthi accept Nobel Peace prize (CNN)
• Despite failures, U.S. likely to continue raids to free hostages (Reuters)
• Mexico sends federal troops into towns plagued by drug gangs (Reuters)

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November 13, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Obama to send 1,500 more troops to assist Iraq (NY Times)
• House, Senate to hold votes on Keystone XL project (Washington Post)
• Tiny spacecraft nails target: comet 300 M miles away (USA Today)
• Report: Obama’s immigration plan expected next week (The Hill)
• Hundreds of US troops exposed to dangerous chemicals in Iraq (CS Monitor)
• If You Want To Help Veterans, Get Attention By Shaming The VA (KPBS)
• Mormon church admits founder Joseph Smith had about 40 wives (Reuters)
• The $9 billion witness: Meet JP Morgan Chase’s worst nightmare (Rolling Stone)

WORLD

• World losing battle against climate change (USA Today)
• Islamic State seeking to 'delete' entire cultures, UNESCO chief warns in Iraq (CS Monitor)
• Easing of Saudi Driving Ban Possible (AP)
• Hamas announces creation of 'popular army' for 'liberation of al-Aksa' (JPost)
• Gang member confessions point to massacre of missing Mexico students (Reuters)
• Russia launches new media to lead 'propaganda war' with West (Reuters)
• CNN to end broadcasting in Russia
• The Woman Fighting ISIS in Court (JPost)
• Ukraine accuses Russia of sending in tanks, escalating crisis (Reuters)

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October 30, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Nurse defies Ebola quarantine (CBS)
• Leaked autopsy raises questions about Michael Brown narrative (+video) (CS Monitor)
• Deaths at the US-Mexico border drop to 15-year low (CS Monitor)
• Recently Returned From Africa, Doctor Tests Positive For Ebola At NYC Hospital (NPR)

WORLD

• Japan nuclear plant gets approval to restart, over three years after Fukushima (Reuters)
• Egypt to create buffer zone along Gaza border (AP)
• Shooting at Canada's Parliament leaves two dead, shooter identified  (CS Monitor)
• Jerusalem to step up security after second day of violence (JPost)
• Mexico: Iguala Mayor linked to disappearance of 43 students (+video) (CS Monitor)
• Japan warns of increased activity at volcano near nuclear plant(Reuters)

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