Chicago Ponders War Protester's Suicide
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By ASHLEY M. HEHER CHICAGO - Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose. He carefully planned the details, mailed a copy of his apartment key to a friend, created to-do lists for his family.
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The ranks of its survivors are dwindling. And for the young, its significance can be difficult to grasp. But as Americans paused Tuesday to remember the âday that will live in infamy,â they formed a bridge
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By MARCUS WOHLSEN SAN FRANCISCO - Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter. But they don't want you marching in the streets. They'd much rather you just stay home.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden says he understands how someone who suffered a personal tragedy could consider committing suicide.
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The question in your editorial ("The fading of Pearl Harbor," Dec. 7) about what we, the people, would do in case of another attack is not only an excellent one but very troubling. The "train" is coming, no doubt. The crazies are smelling blood.
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"Small town America" is desperately debating whether a young marine deliberately got himself killed to escape a possible return to Iraq.
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A formal Canadian protest to Washington   appeared to be planned on Tuesday as the result of an official   inquiry into the U.S. deportation in 2002 of a Canadian citizen   to Syria, where he was subsequently tortured.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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Leaving a hotel in Chicago after making a speech while a huge antiwar protest rages nearby, President Bush is suddenly struck down, killed by a sniperÂs bullet.
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The families of some Sept. 11 victims are exploring how their loved ones died, but the topic of those who jumped from the World Trade Center is especially sensitive.
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LIBERTYVILLE, Illinois: After an eventful but often tragic life, Yugoslavia's last monarch ended up in an unlikely spot: entombed in an ornately decorated suburban Chicago church that was intended to be his ...Comment
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For a few hours Saturday, the plaza at Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River was a sea of orange. Hundreds of members of Chicago&#39;s Ukrainian community went to the plaza wearing orange scarfs, orange caps, orange jackets and orange ribbons.
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U.S. Marines rallied round a comrade under investigation for killing a wounded Iraqi during the offensive in Falluja, saying he was probably under combat stress in unpredictable, hair-trigger circumstances.
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Some question whether it will be enough to quell the violence and worry about the impact of prolonged tours.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - An Army sergeant went on trial  Tuesday in the death of an Iraqi civilian who was pushed off a  Tigris River bridge in a case that helped fuel anger over U.S.  abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The killing of two conscripts has raised questions about the possible role of Serbia and Montenegro's military in protecting war crimes indictees.
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Twenty-three prisoners at the Guantanamo  detention camp staged a mass protest in 2003 in which some  tried to strangle themselves, but the U.S. military said on  Tuesday it did not publicize it at the time because it did not  consider most of them genuine suicide attempts.