A series of meetings will be held this week at the White House that will most likely determine whether or not the United States will be arming the Syrian rebels and at what extent that arming will reach according to U.S. officials.
After a three-year sentence on his fourth drug conviction, then being deported back to Mexico, the Mexican National was back in court for sentencing on more drug crimes after illegally re-entering the United States.
The U.S. government is defending the practice of collecting massive amounts of information about telephone calls, following a newspaper report the National Security Agency is gathering the records of millions of Americans.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt Robert Bales appeared in court on Wednesday and pled guilty to 16 counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven counts of assault for the crimes he committed in March of 2012.