Evening Edition

Two car bombs targeting Lebanese mosques kill dozens; President Obama and Britain’s Foreign Secretary voice concern over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria; new details are revealed about Al Qaeda’s attempted strike in Yemen; Britain is allegedly maintaining a secret intelligence gathering operation in the Middle East; and the NSA paid tech companies millions of dollars to cover the costs of the Prism program.

France calls for international intervention should Syria’s use of chemical weapons be confirmed; Egypt’s amended constitution moves forward; the Justice Department sues Texas over its voter ID law; President Obama announces a plan to reduce college costs; and North Korea reportedly faces a crystal meth epidemic.

An alleged chemical attack in Syria kills hundreds; the NSA can access at least 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic; Bradley Manning is sentenced to 35 years in prison; a judge approves force-feeding California inmates who are on hunger strike; and Russian citizens panic over the strange behavior of local pigeons.

Allies in the Gulf region are undermining U.S. efforts to curb Egypt’s violent crackdown; former Egyptian vice president Mohamed ElBaradei is being charged over his resignation; Pakistan’s former leader has been indicted for murder; the British government forced The Guardian to destroyed leaked NSA documents; and San Francisco threatens to sue Nevada over the dumping of psychiatric patients in California.

The situation in Egypt continues to deteriorate after a weekend of violence; former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak could be released from prison this week; British officials detained a Guardian reporter’s partner for nine hours of questioning; Nigeria claims that Boko Haram’s leader may be dead; and the U.S. urges a 60 year sentence for whistleblower Bradley Manning.

Friday’s ‘Day of Rage’ in Egypt leaves more than 100 dead; the NSA violates privacy rules thousands of times each year; China plans to stop harvesting organs from executed inmates; a polio outbreak is the latest crisis in Somalia; and a zoo in China tries to pass off a dog as a lion.

More than 600 are dead in Egypt’s brutal crackdown on protesters; Bradley Manning apologizes for document leaks; Syria agrees to allow chemical weapons inspections by the UN; nearly 1,500 South African police are actually convicted criminals; and New Zealand opens a cardboard cathedral in Christchurch.

Hundreds are dead as pro-Morsi protesters are targeted by government forces in Egypt; Doctors Without Borders pulls out of Somalia; the Eurozone appears to have emerged from recession, thanks to Germany and France; the Justice Department moves to block the merger of U.S. Airways and American Airlines; and the ACLU files suit against North Carolina over a restrictive new voter ID law.

Egyptian police clash with pro-Morsi protesters in Cairo; gunmen kill 44 during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria; President Obama names Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to oversee the upcoming review of the NSA; a measles epidemic is the latest blight against children in the Central African Republic; and Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro celebrates a low key 87th birthday.

The Justice Department moves to end mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders; Israel announces plans to release 26 Palestinian prisoners ahead of the next round of peace talks; militants attacked a natural gas terminal in Yemen, killing five soldiers; a top Nazi war crime suspect has died while awaiting trial in Hungary; and new research may explain how sleep loss can lead to increased weight gain.

The NSA could be reading every email and text sent into or out of the US; Al Qaeda’s influence in North Africa grows; more bloodshed seems to be on the horizon in Egypt; calls for a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia come from opposite ends of the political spectrum; and dead dolphins are turning up in record numbers along the Atlantic Coast.

Syrian rebels target President Assad’s motorcade with rocket strikes; the death toll from tribal clashes in South Sudan continues to rise; Pope Francis tightens Vatican financial regulations; an untamed wild fire has consumed more than 10,000 acres in Southern California; and Portuguese researchers have found a way to make alcohol from coffee grounds.

Yemen’s government reportedly foils an Al-Qaeda plot; despite recent tensions over whistleblower Edward Snowden, the United States will hold talks with Russia; international mediators fear that Egypt may be headed toward civil war; the Japanese government announces it will intervene in the Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup; and China reports the first possible case of possible human-to-human transmission of the H7N9 bird flu.

The U.S. and Britain are pulling staff out of Yemen amidst growing security concerns; the TSA is expanding its role beyond airports; Syrian rebels make gains in their latest counter-offensives against government forces; in Egypt, bodies are turning up near pro-Morsi protests; and officials in London discover a bus-sized pile of fat in the city’s sewer.

Moderate Cleric Hassan Rouhani has been sworn in as Iran’s new President; Robert Mugabe is declared the victor in Zimbabwe’s presidential election; a secret DEA unit works to cover up investigations of American citizens; Major League Baseball suspends 13 players linked to a South Florida drug lab; and food critics get a taste of the world’s first hamburger grown in a laboratory.

An American helicopter gunship kills five Afghan policemen; at least 40 people are dead following an attack on an arms depot in Syria; the State Department issues a global travel warning for citizens and government staff; a new study links climate change to increases in violence; and the U.S. updates its visa processing for same-sex married couples.

The House votes to impose new sanctions on Iran’s oil exports; Russia grants short term asylum to Edward Snowden; the U.N. moves to disarm Congo’s M23 rebel group; a new report highlights misconduct by the TSA; and a record-breaking heat wave hits China.

The latest NSA leaks shed more light on the pervasiveness of government surveillance; Egyptian officials order police to break up pro-Morsi demonstrations; as the US prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan, casualties are on the rise; polls have closed in Zimbabwe’s presidential election; and India’s government votes to create a new state.

Bradley Manning has been found not guilty of aiding the enemy, but faces more than 100 years on other charges; in Pakistan, Taliban fighters raid a prison, freeing hundreds, while more than 1,100 prisoners escape in a jailbreak in Libya; in a nationwide sweep, the FBI frees more than 100 victims of underage prostitution; and a thief steals over $136,000,000 worth of jewelry from a hotel on the French Riviera.

Egyptian authorities killed more than 70 pro-Morsi protesters in weekend clashes; Israeli and Palestinian officials agree to the first peace talks in nearly three years; a bus crash in Italy killed at least 38; a weekend mass shooting in Miami left six dead; and Pope Francis spoke candidly about gays in the priesthood.

The death toll for the Syrian civil war reaches 100,000 and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon calls for peace talks; Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying evidence connected to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill; in Egypt, ousted president Mohammed Morsi is charged with conspiring with Hamas; accused rapist and abductor Ariel Castro makes a plea deal for life in prison without parole; and a squirrel in Los Angeles has been infected with the bubonic plague.

Scores of passengers are dead following a high-speed train derailment in Spain; Tunisians take to the streets to protest the killing of an opposition leader; Shi’ite truck drivers are executed north of Baghdad; federal agents raid marijuana dispensaries in Washington state, despite the drug’s decriminalization there; and scientists may have discovered the cause of alarming rates of honey bee deaths.

Egyptian military leaders call on citizens to give the army a mandate to counter ‘violence and terrorism’; the Red Cross highlights the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria; the House rejects an amendment to limit NSA surveillance; clashes between police forces and armed gang members in western Mexico leave nearly two dozen dead; and a federal judge suspends the initial challenges to Detroit’s bankruptcy filing.

The Pentagon outlines options for U.S. intervention in the Syrian civil war; the latest round of clashes in Egypt leave nine dead; a new report shows that female genital cutting may be on the decline in Africa; China institutes a five-year ban on new government buildings; and the FDA considers regulating menthol cigarettes.

In Colombia, FARC militants ambush security forces, leaving 19 soldiers dead; in northern China, a series of earthquakes flattens villages, killing dozens and wounding hundreds; armed insurgents in Iraq attack two high-security prisons, springing hundreds of prisoners and convicted terrorists; in a botched training exercise, the U.S. Navy drops bombs on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef; and a 39,000 year old woolly mammoth is on display in Japan.

Detroit becomes the largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy and unions are not happy about it; Islamist protesters pour into Egypt’s streets, demanding the reinstatement of ex-president Mohamed Morsi; lawyers for California prison inmates on hunger strike claim guards are retaliating; in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict, President Obama speaks out about race in America; and children in a remote Australian village have invented a new language.

A potential key witness in the trial of mob boss ‘Whitey’ Bulger turns up dead; Russia’s most popular opposition leader is sentenced to 5 years in prison; ethnic clashes leave at least 54 dead in Guinea; wildfires in the mountains near Palm Springs, California force thousands to flee; and an unexploded World War II-era bomb is found near a kindergarten in Hungary.

A judge orders the Obama Administration to release its justification for the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program; al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch loses its second in command to a U.S. drone strike; in India, violent protests erupt after at least 25 children die from eating poisoned school lunches; penitent Catholics earn time off purgatory by following the Pope on Twitter; and a construction crew in Poland digs up vampire graves from the 16th Century.

Overnight clashes between riot police and Islamist protesters in Egypt leave seven dead and hundreds wounded; Panamanian authorities seized a North Korean ship suspected of carrying sophisticated missile equipment; in Mexico, marines capture one of the country’s most ruthless drug lords; Indian police arrest 8 men suspected of kidnapping and raping four young girls; and in countries like England, Wales and Denmark, the rate of dementia is plummeting.

Protesters across the United States are reacting with outrage and prayer in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal; the U.S. is warning the Egyptian military to stop cracking down on Islamist protesters, even as Egyptian prosecutors freeze the assets of top Muslim Brotherhood leaders; yesterday capped another deadly weekend in Iraq, where more than 760 people have been killed since June; Syrian journalists living abroad are hoping to use old-school techniques to bring unbiased news to the people; and Russian president Vladimir Putin says he wants whistleblower Edward Snowden out of the Moscow airport where he’s taken refuge.