October 22, 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.

• US military denied treatment to soldiers exposed to chemical weapons in Iraq (+video) (CS Monitor)
• The secret casualties of Iraq’s abandoned chemical weapons (New York Times)
• Your Car Won't Start. Did You Make The Loan Payment?
• Supreme Court denies request to block Texas voter ID law (Reuters)
• For More Millennials, It's Kids First, Marriage Maybe (NPR)

WORLD

• Islamic State flying three jets in Syria: monitor(Reuters)
• Britain warns of 'exceptionally high' level of anti-terrorism activity (Reuters)
• Japan jets scrambling to counter rising Russian incursions (Reuters)
• In Greece, free press pays the price for crossing the government (CS Monitor)
• Hong Kong leader confesses that real democracy is 'impossible' (CS Monitor)
•  Canadian soldier killed in attack by driver with links to radical Islam (CS Monitor)
• Mexican rights agency says army executed 15 of 22
• Were jihadists training in a French park? (CS Monitor)
• Nearly 500 new FGM cases identified

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October 8, 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.

• Justice Dept. will review practice of creating fake Facebook profiles (Washington Post)
• Dems ask for hearing on Ebola response funding (The Hill)
• Contact lost with planes one by one as FAA fire spread (Bloomberg News)
• Sen. Warren: We Need Regulators Who 'Work For The American People' (NPR)
• Walmart cuts healthcare for 30,000 workers (The Hill)
• Oklahoma reconsiders energy plans (Spokesman)

WORLD

• North Korea, already under U.N. sanctions, prepares launch site for longer-range rockets (Reuters)
• Kobane:  IS and Syria Kurds in fierce gun battle (BBC)
• Hong Kong's 'Umbrella Revolution': the politest protests ever? (CS Monitor)
• Special Report: In 'Umbrella Revolution,' China confronts limits of its power (Reuters)
• UN: At least 1,119 Iraqis killed in September (UT San Diego)
• At least 10 people killed in shelling on and near school in Ukraine's Donetsk: city authorities (Reuters)

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September 11, 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.

• Boehmer backs Obama on Syria rebels, but will GOP follow? (CBS)
• Obama addresses ISIS: "If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven"  (CBS)
• Home Depot confirms security breach following Target data theft (Reuters)
• Rural hospitals pressured to close as healthcare system changes (Reuters)  
• One third of all Americans are freelancers now (Reason)
• Aggressive police take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists not charged with any crime (Washington Post)
• Immigration seen as bonanza for slumping global defense industry (Al Jazeera)

WORLD

• Twitter employees threatened by ISIS affiliated group (SFGate)
• Iraqi parliament approves new government headed by Haider al-Abadi (Reuters)
• Expert: Over 12,000 foreign fighters in Syria (UT San Diego)
• Al Qaeda announces India wing, renews loyalty to Taliban chief (Reuters)
• Arab League issues proclamation on ISIS (CBS)
• Somalia's al Shabaab name new leader after U.S. strike, warn of revenge  (Reuters)
• Video from the Icelandic Volcano (Stitch)
• UK scrambles to promise more powers if Scots reject independence (Reuters)
• China kills nearly 5,000 dogs to control rabies (UT San Diego)
• After Syria and Iraq, Islamic State makes inroads in South Asia (Reuters)
• Islamic extremists grab towns in northeast Nigeria (UT San Diego)
• Hamas says any international force in Gaza would be considered occupation (JPost)
• ISIS Militants Killed Up To 770 Captured Iraqi Soldiers: Human Rights Watch  (AP)
• Israel shows evidence of rocket fire from Gaza schools (Reuters)
• Germany to pay $250 Million to child Holocaust survivors (JPost)
• Egypt FM says strained relations with US due to insistence on including Islamists in politics (JPost)
• Anti-Jewish incidents at record high in Britain (JPost)
• ‘Shariah controlled zone’ in Germany: Group of young Muslims patrolling city streets (RT)

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August 27, 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 studying plan to expand legal immigration, press reports (Vida Latina)
• Pentagon warns: Islamic State threat greater than 9/11 (JPost)
• Clinton vs. Warren: Where they disagree (The Hill)
• Agencies grapple with a proliferation of buzzing drones (eenews)
• Fatal shooting by 9-year-old at firing range stirs debate over guns (CBS)
• U.S. undercover investigators among those exposed in data breach (Reuters)
• St. Ann Police Officer in Ferguson That Threatened Protestors ‘Suspended Indefinitely’ | (EURweb)

WORLD

• President Obama considers air strikes, other military options in Syria against ISIL’s ‘terrorist army’ (Associated Press)
• Cease-fire extended, but not on HAMAS’ terms (New York Times)
• Brazil dismantles ‘biggest destroyer’ of amazon rainforest (BBC)
• Hundreds dead as Islamic State seizes Syrian air base: monitor (Reuters)
• After Foley murder, more jihadi threats to murder hostages (CS Monitor)
• Ukraine defiant on national day, rebels parade captives (Reuters)
• Twelve dead, 36,000 homeless in Niger flooding (Reuters)
• A New Strain Of Ebola Emerges In Democratic Republic Of Congo (NPR)
• African Doctor Treated With San Diego Company's Ebola Drug Dies (KPBS)

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August 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.

• U.S. Attorney launches Civil Rights investigation into Michael Brown shooting (Time)
• Police fire tear gas, stun guns in Missouri; Obama briefed (Reuters)
• The O'Bannon ruling: College athletes win (New York Times editorial)
• U.S. Homeland Security contractor reports computer breach (Reuters)
• As Texas steps up border security, critics decry militarization (CBS)

WORLD

• Iraq's Power Struggle: What You Need To Know (NPR)
• ISIS gains control of key infrastructure in Iraq  (Marketplace.org)
• Pentagon 'very concerned' by IS threat, sees limits to air power, general says (+video) (CS Monitor)
• Gaza truce holds for second day (Reuters)
• ‘This Is a Full Blown Genocide’ (Voice of SD)
•  Will more Iraqis settle in San Diego?(U-T)
• 2 Top Khmer Rouge Leaders Sentenced To Life In Prison (NPR)
• Pro-Israel students ‘assaulted’ at Boston protest (Times of Israel)
• The Global Pogrom (Tower.org)

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July 23, 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.

• Charge your phone, or you can't fly with it (APM Marketplace)
• USA Court ruling creates new uncertainty for Obamacare (Reuters)
• Candidate pool for Congress is missing moderates, study finds (CS Monitor)
• Inmate’s execution takes over two hours (USA Today)
• Lapses at high-security CDC labs reveal culture of negligence (CS Monitor)
• Florida airport staff get lesson in nation's geography

WORLD

• Malaysian Airlines flight 17 was shot down for money (Huffington Post)
• Great Wall of Japan? Locals balk at tsunami-protection plan. (CS Monitor)
• 2 Ukranian fighter jets shot down over rebel-held territory (Reuters)
• Israelis express anger over U.S. flight ban to Tel Aviv (Washington Post)
• Seized nuclear material in Iraq 'low grade': U.N. agency
• Anti-Israel protesters besiege Paris synagogue (JTA.org)

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July 3, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- ECM 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.

• 5 things women need to know about the Hobby Lobby ruling (Time)
• U.S. increases security at overseas airports amid bomb concerns

• East Coast Braces for Damage (Time)

• Teen describes brutal journey into U.S. (ABC News)
• Obama to seek $2 billion to stem surge of  Central American immigrants (Chicago Tribune)
• Surprise! Red and blue districts often agree on government policy.
• Democrats: No bluff, Obama will go it alone on immigration (The Hill)
• Mitt Romney isn’t running. So who will GOP turn to?  (Washington Post)
• Warren, Booker are Dems secret weapons (The Hill)
• Land of the free? Not so much. Americans' sense of freedom drops, poll finds. (CS Monitor)
• Stepping Into The Fire: Veteran Advocates & Pols Sound Off On Obama's Choice To Lead Scandal-Plagued VA (Reno Blogspot by Jamie Reno)

WORLD

• ISIS declares creation of Middle Eastern caliphate (CBS News)
• U.S. sends 300 more troops to Iraq over security concerns (Reuters)
• U.K. Loses Big Vote On The Future Of Europe — Now What?
• Bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teens found in West Bank (JPost)
• Volley of Gaza mortar shells fired toward southern Israel (JPost)
• Huge Crowds Turn Out for Hong Kong Pro-Democracy March (NY Times)
• European Court of Human Rights upholds French law banning veil (Reuters)
• Norway Does A Ctrl+Alt+Delete On E-Voting Experiment (NPR)

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June 18, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- ECM 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

• Sources: Benghazi terror suspect captured without a single shot fired (CNN)
• Federal court rules cellphone tracking data protected under Fourth Amendment (CS Monitor)
• US missile defense system unreliable in tests (Sacramento Bee)
• For The Win(e): U.S. Passes France As World's Top Wine Consumer
• Pew Poll: More Americans Are Political Purists (NPR)
• Two prominent Mormon activists threatened with excommunication (Reuters)
• Stay-At-Home Dads On The Rise, And Many Of Them Are Poor (NPR)
• Tornado obliterates Nebraska town, killing one and injuring 16  (Reuters)

INTERNATIONAL

Iraq

• Militants Reportedly Overrun Tikrit, As 500,000 Flee Mosul (NPR)
• Iraq's implosion could redraw Middle East boundaries (Reuters)
• In One Map, The Dramatic Rise Of ISIS In Iraq And Syria (NPR)
• ISIL gets rich in attack on Iraq's cities (Marketplace)
• Pentagon moves USS Mesa Verde nearer Iraq. What can it do? (CS Monitor)
• Al Qaeda Splinter Grabs U.S. Humvees, Sends Them to Syria (Reason)

Other countries

• Saudi Arabia jails 33 for up to 30 years on terrorism charges(Reuters)
• More than two dozen dead as Taliban assault Pakistan's main airport (Reuters)
• After Ukraine, U.S. trains more special forces in eastern Europe (Reuters) 
• Yeshiva Students Missing, Suspected Kidnapped by Terrorists (Israel National News)
• US Quietly Releases More Military Prisoners in Afghanistan (Israel National News)
• Russia Sent Tanks to Separatists in Ukraine, U.S. Says (NY Times)
• Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine as Kiev orders border secured (Reuters)
• Russian jet tangles with US spy plane over Pacific (CS Monitor)
• Nigeria rejects swap of Boko Haram prisoners for schoolgirls: UK Minister (Reuters)
• Unrest Breaks Out In Vietnam Over Island Dispute With China (NPR)
• Myanmar’s Persecuted Minority (NY Times)
• Are English schools being taken over by Islamic extremists? (CS Monitor)
• What negative interest rates mean for the Eurozone (Marketplace)
• Wall Of Ice Surrounding Fukushima Will Contain Radioactive Water (NPR)

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May 28, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM 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.

• Schumer: Obama will act on immigration reform if GOP doesn’t (The Hill)
• Deep problems at Veterans Affairs - Books-cooking is just a symptom (SD City Beat)
• Head of House Veterans Affairs Committee calls for Eric Shinseki’s resignation (Washington Post)
• Killing spree in college community brings back memories of similar crime 12 years ago(Fox News)
• Maya Angelou ‘the brightest light,’ says Obama  (BBC)

WORLD

• Obama lays out new approach to foreign policy in second term (Washington Post)
• Leaders agree to review EU agenda at Brussels summit (BBC)
• Chechen leader Kadyrov denies sending troops to Ukraine (BBC)
• Where's the Dream Act for Meriam Ibrahim? (Jewish World Review)
• Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located (10 News)
• Battle at Donetsk airport; new Ukraine leader says no talks with 'terrorists'(Reuters)
• Flemish separatists are big winners in Belgian election  (Reuters)

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May 15, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM 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

• NASA spots worrisome Antarctic ice sheet melt that could add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels (10 News)
• Net neutrality puts FCC at center of storm (Washington Post)
• Dems ready student loan push (The Hill)
• U.S. passenger jet nearly collided with drone in March: FAA  (Reuters)

WORLD

• Sewol ferry captain and 3 crew members face murder charges in South Korea  (CNN)
• EU court says people may remove unflattering links from Google (+video) (CS Monitor)
• France says Syria used chlorine in 14 recent attacks (Reuters)
• Separatists kill seven Ukraine soldiers in heaviest loss for Kiev forces (Reuters)
• Sudanese woman may face death for choosing Christianity over Islam (Reuters)
• Iraq Debates Law That Would Allow Men To Marry 9-Year-Old Girls (NPR)

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April 30, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM 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.

• Supreme Court appears wary of carte blanche for cellphone searches (CS Monitor)
•  Death toll rises as twisters rip across Mississippi, Alabama (CNN)
• Obamacare enrollment extended again (The Hill)
• What’s next for Obamacare ? The Hill)
• Clippers owner Donald Sterling banned for life by NBA (CBS)
  
  Clippers sponsors jump ship (CNN)
• ADL director responds to Kerry's reported 'apartheid’ remark (Jerusalem Post)
• U.S. investigating theft of doctors' tax refunds (Reuters)
• How A Public Corruption Scandal Became A Fight Over Free Speech (NPR)
• Texas family plagued with ailments gets $3 million in first of its kind fracking judgment (CNN)

WORLD

• Hungarians march against anti-Semitism after far-right poll gains (Reuters)
•  Megacities contend with sinking land (BBC)
• Tu-95 bombers: Brits scramble jets after Russian bombers approach  (CS Monitor)
• Russia Threatens Invasion Unless Ukraine Stops Stopping Separatists (Reason)
• Pacific Island Nation Sues U.S., Others For Violating Nuclear Treaty (NPR)
• Poppies replace tourists in Egypt's Sinai desert  (Christian Science Monitor)
• On Second Day Of Mass Trial, Egyptian Judge Sentences 683 To Death (NPR)

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April 17, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM 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.

• IRS Chasing Children For Dead Parents' Debts (NPR)
• Three border officials face charges (SD Reader)
• A look at chances of getting audited by IRS (UT San Diego)
• Obama Administration Slapped With 'Muzzle Awards' for Threatening Free Expression (Reason)
• Senate report: Interrogation methods 'far worse' than CIA acknowledged (CS Monitor)
•  Three people killed in shootings at Jewish centers in Kansas (Reuters)

WORLD

• Water flows to Colorado River Delta  (U-T San Diego)
• Rwanda, the world's swiftest genocide (CS Monitor)
• (2 powerful earthquakes hit Solomon Islands (AP)
• A look at Ukraine's fast-growing Russian gas bill (UT San Diego)
• Can Russia's military fly without Ukraine's parts? (CS Monitor)

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April 3, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM 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.

• Fort Hood shooting spree: `Texans hearts are once again very heavy ‘(CNN)
• House panel subpoenas on wind power, eagle deaths (UT San Diego)
• Facing near certainty of rape, women illegally crossing border turn to birth control (RawStory)
• Yellowstone National Park rattled by largest earthquake in 34 years (Reuters)
•  Colorado River begins flooding Mexican delta (KPBS)
• Local partisans divide on Supreme Court ruling (UT San Diego)
• GM Bailout Claims the Legal Rights of Americans (Reason)
• Why do we make students sit still in class? (CNN)
• Facing the development of U.S. wind energy with a DOE map (ECO report)
• Fallen Marine's Dad Wants Peace At Fred Phelps' Funeral (Video) (KPBS)

WORLD

• Mexico finds 370 abandoned immigrant children (Reuters)
• Iraq electoral commission resigns en masse weeks before vote (Reuters)
• With $1B In Aid For Ukraine, Congress Puts Money Where Its Mouth Is (NPR)
• U.N. official says 'terrifying' level of hatred in Central African Republic (Reuters)
• ‘Black-clad army’ rallies for democracy in Taipei (Taipei Times)
• Obama ready to expand covert aid to Syrian opposition: report (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Russia threatened countries ahead of UN vote on Ukraine - envoys(Reuters)
• New Zealand tops social progress index, world's biggest economies trail (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

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March 13, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM 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.

• Judge dismisses FAA fine against small drone user  (UT San Diego)
• Stolen passports raise security concerns (Wall Street Journal)
• Judge's order preserves NSA surveillance records (Sacramento Bee)
• Snowden: Proposed NSA reforms vindicate my data leaks (Reuters)

WORLD

• Missing Malaysian jet may have disintegrated in mid-air: source (Reuters
• U.S. warns Russia not to annex Crimea (BBC)
• Arab League refuses to recognize Israel as Jewish state (Christian Science Monitor)
• Iraqi women protest against proposed Islamic law in Iraq (Reuters)
• Not like a fairy tale: Saudi princesses reportedly locked in castle by king for 13 years (Jerusalem Post)
• Save the Children describes healthcare disaster in Syria (Reuters)
• Israel: Seized rockets would put Jerusalem in Gaza's range (+video) (Christian Science Monitor)
• Saudi Arabia names Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group  (Christian Science Monitor)

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February 26, 2014 (San Diego’s East County ) --ECM 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.

• IRS: Renewables Companies May Be Double-Dipping Federal Subsidies (KCET)
• Obama to propose shift in wildfire funding (New York Times)
• Obama to drop less generous retiree payments from budget (McClatchy News)
• Budget cuts to slash U.S. Army to smallest since before World War Two (Reuters)
• Native Americans prepare a “last stand” against Keystone XL (RawStory)
• Doctors' Offices Get Put On Hold Trying to Find Out Who's Insured (NPR)
• Supreme Court Opens Door To Easier Police Searches (NPR)
• Department of Homeland Security cancels national license-plate tracking plan (Washington Post)
• U.S. Government Will Back Loans For Nuclear Power (NPR)
• Nebraska court invalidates state's Keystone pipeline approval (Reuters)
• Ranking cities from Miami to Boston to Wichita on inequality (Marketplace.org)

WORLD

• Ukraine wants fugitive president to face Hague court (Reuters)
• Is Putin pushing for a crackdown in Ukraine?(CS Monitor)
• Uganda's anti-gay bill refocuses attention on US evangelical influence
• Exclusive: Iraq signs deal to buy arms, ammunition from Iran - documents (Reuters)
• Nigerian Islamists kill 59 pupils in boarding school attack (Reuters)
•  Turkish protesters denounce Internet restrictions (UT San Diego)
• Pakistani Taliban say government must embrace Islamic law (Reuters)
• Somalia's al Shabaab say attack meant to get president 'dead or alive' (Reuters)

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