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.
North and South Korea are working on terms for working level talks after months of chill, rhetoric, nuclear and missile tests and threats. Those talks may be held as soon as Sunday. The last working level talks occured in February of 2011.
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.