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FILE - This June 28, 2012 file photo shows people waiting in line to hear cases at the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2012. A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that prosecutors may not rely on an international chemical weapons treaty to convict a woman who attacked her husband's mistress. The justices threw out the conviction of Carol Anne Bond of Lansdale, Pa., who was prosecuted under a 1999 law based on the chemical weapons treaty. Bond served a six-year prison term after being convicted of using toxic chemicals that caused a thumb burn on a friend who had become her husband's lover. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

EDITORIAL: A woman scorned is not an international incident

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** In this April 9, 2014, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio gives an interview to The Associated Press on a variety of subjects, including an affordable housing plan, at City Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

U.N., New York City align on climate change as chiefs meet for pow-wow

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) is enveloped in fog Feb. 11, 2014, as it sits in its berth in San Diego. (DoD photo by Glenn Fawcett/Released)

Pentagon wrestles with false climate predictions as military funds shifted to green agenda

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Rice helping Obama juggle foreign policy crises

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a speech Tuesday at Damascus University, said he would not step down and insisted that he still has his people's support despite a 10-month-old uprising against him. (SANA via Associated Press)

U.N. proposal would permit aid into Syria without Assad’s approval

Associated Press

"The Obama administration should stop trying to scare Americans and then impose costly, unnecessary regulations on them," said House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith. "When assessing climate change, we need to make sure that findings are driven by science, not an alarmist, partisan agenda." (Associated Press)

Unsettling: House panel hears debate on climate change science

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

UN has record number of about 118,000 peacekeepers

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN: Syria won’t meet deadline to destroy chemicals

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

National Security Adviser Susan Rice (Associated Press/File)

GRAY: Seeds of Benghazi disaster sown in 2011 invasion

By C. Boyden Gray

UN to focus on protecting civilians in South Sudan

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE -- In this August 26, 2013, file Photo, a U.N. team, that is scheduled to investigate an alleged chemical attack that killed hundreds last week in a Damascus suburb, leaves their hotel in a convoy, in Damascus, Syria. In a statement issued Tuesday, May 27, 2014, by the chemical weapons watchdog that is overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program, said a convoy of its inspectors has come under attack, but all are safe. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that the inspectors had been traveling to the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack site when they were attacked. (AP Photo, File)

Chemical weapons inspectors attacked in Syria

By ALBERT AJI and TOBY STERLING - Associated Press

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to the U.N., called the report a reflection of the "good faith efforts" made by the church to address the abuse, but noted several points on which the two sides disagree. (Associated Press)

Mixed reviews on U.N.’s anti-torture report on Vatican

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

UN says peacekeeper killed in North Darfur region

Associated Press