The CIA is stepping in and "ramping up" its role with the unit in Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Citing unnamed sources the increased CIA role is in an effort to prevent spillover from the war in Syria by helping counterterrorism units fight al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Tuesday, signaling that cardinals have yet to cast their first of the papal conclave to choose a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
Two murder suspects and a third man escaped from a in a southeast Missouri county jail, according to the Associated Press. The escape occurred Monday around 11:30 p.m. at the Butler County Jail in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
5 teenagers were killed in a fiery car crash involving their vehicle colliding with a tanker loaded with fuel. Authorities say the teens died at the scene. The truck driver Ezequiel Garcia was in critical condition Tuesday with burns over 655 of his body.
