In response to allegations that the Assad regime used sarin gas in what is largely considered to be the biggest attack yet, the White House issued this statement, expressing its concern yet not promising any action.

After a hotly contested election, Robert Mugabe was sworn in (again!) as President of Zimbabwe on August 21, 2013. Mugabe, now 89 years old, is only the country’s second president has been President of the African nation since 1980.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been a strong supporter of the city’s stop-and-frisk policing, which has largely targeted the city’s minority populations. The New York City Council, however, overruled his vetoes of two bills that will provide for greater oversight of the NYPD and their stop-and-frisk policing.

After allegations that the Assad regime had launched the largest chemical weapons attack yet in the suburbs of Damascus, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon released this statement.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) released this statement after the NSA declassified a 2011 court ruling that stated that the kind of communications monitoring undertaken by the NSA’s PRISM program (amongst others) violated the 4th Amendment.

After receiving a letter from Rep. Eliot Engel calling for US intervention in Syria, Gen. Martin Dempsey responded, elaborating on why the US will not take more direct action with regards to the conflict.

Source: http://www.ppp.org.pk/mbb/speeches/speeche88.html

In response to Gen. Dempsey’s letter explaining why the US would not intervene in the Syrian conflict, Rep. Eliot Engel released this statment arguing for intervention to support moderate rebels within the country.

In a Q&A with reporters, White House spokesman Josh Earnest revealed that the UK gave the US government advance notice that it planned on detaining David Miranda, the partner of The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, at the Heathrow Airport.

Source: The Wall Street Journal