Today’s Lead News Stories

"She was struggling to breathe," said the father of a 1-year-old exposed to the chemical.

Families say the housing contractor’s strict timing rules dampen holiday spirit on the base

FIRE suggests laws to trim FCC power and protect free expression.

House Democrats vow to vote no but Republican leaders optimistic legislation to reopen government will pass

Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prison

French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Tuesday that any Israeli plans for annexation in the West Bank would constitute a “red line” and would provoke a European reaction. He spoke as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited Paris, one month into a fragile truce between Hamas and Israel, following two years…

Noureddin Bongo and his mother Sylvia say they have been convicted in a ‘show trial’ after being tortured in detention in Gabon

In today’s newsletter: Almost 1.8 million people in the UK class themselves as unemployed, and it’s the youth who are driving it. What can be done to help, and will things get better (or worse)?

Fernando Clark died in the Montgomery County Jail while waiting for psychiatric treatment