A missile strike in Pakistan earlier this week is believed to have killed Abu Laith al-Libbi, who is believed responsible for planning some suicide bombing attacks in Afghanistan.

From RSF.org:

A demonstration was held today in Kabul in support of Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, while the senate issued a statement disagreeing with the statement issued yesterday by the senate president supporting Kambakhsh’s death sentence.

This time of year in Vietnam is Tet, the lunar new year.

Normally a time of celebration, the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army used the event in 1968 -- about three years after the Vietnam War really began to ramp up -- to launch simultaneous attacks throughout South Vietnam.

As a military offensive, it failed. As a psychological and political tactic to weaken U.S. support for the Vietnam War, it worked spectacularly well.

The Poynter Institute's Roy Peter Clark uses a survey from Sacred Heart University to start a conversation about the American public's bias against the press.