WORLD
By DAMIEN CAVE
Across Latin America, leaders are considering more permissive policies as a way to fight the spread of drug-related violence.
By DURAID ADNAN and ROD NORDLAND
Alone among Syria's Muslim neighbors, Iraq is actively resisting receiving refugees from the conflict across the border, and is making those who do arrive anything but comfortable.
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
The Afghanistan Infrastructure Project was intended to bring soldiers and civilians together to buttress the counterinsurgency strategy, but delays could end up undercutting it, according to a new report.
U.S.
By JENNIFER MEDINA
A vast accidental lake 40 miles from Palm Springs, Calif., could soon vanish, but there are plans to build a new town at its edge.
By MATTHEW L. WALD
A RAND Corporation study recommended using more planes that scoop water from lakes or rivers, but the Forest Service said it preferred older air tankers.
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
An Ancestry.com team believes that President Obama's African heritage stems not only from his Kenyan father, but from his white mother, whose lineage may include a slave in colonial Virginia.
POLITICS
The Caucus
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Can politics compete with gymnastics? The week ahead may be one of the most challenging for the presidential campaigns as they try to break through Olympic fever.
By JEFF ZELENY
A prominent speaking slot for Mr. Clinton signals an effort by President Obama to pull out all the stops to rally Democrats.
By TAMAR LEWIN
An investigation led by Senator Tom Harkin said students and taxpayers were paying for an industry's excesses. A trade group called the report unfair.
BUSINESS
By AMY CHOZICK
In her first couple months Laura Lang has convened senior executives to review each magazine and assess what each needs to thrive in a digital world.
By STEVE LOHR
A trial opening Monday is the latest phase in a global campaign of smartphone patent litigation whose importance goes beyond legal maneuvering.
By BRIAN STELTER
The Games come amid a tough ratings challenge from "Good Morning America" and the introduction of Savannah Guthrie as a co-host.
TECHNOLOGY
Ramallah Journal
By ISABEL KERSHNER
Many say the small but burgeoning Palestinian tech sector is on the verge of big things, aided by the lack of impediments to movement that Israel imposes in the name of security.
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN
Machine-to-machine communication, a stream of consciousness based on semiconductors, is poised to reinvigorate the mobile industry.
By GREG BISHOP
Members of the United States men's basketball team have taken to the photo-sharing service Instagram in a big, not always flattering, way.
SPORTS
By ALAN FEUER
At 90, Jake LaMotta, the former boxer known to many as the Raging Bull, has ended a two-week run in a biographical Off Broadway show, unfazed by savage reviews.
By KAREN CROUSE
Yannick Agnel chased down Ryan Lochte of the United States to give France an Olympic gold medal in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, reversing the result of 2008.
By BARRY BEARAK
At age 16, Ariel Hsing nearly upset the Olympics' No. 2 seed. But Hsing may soon have to decide whether to continue table tennis or pursue a college education.
ARTS
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
A century after the peak of American piano manufacturing, the dump is increasingly becoming the destination for instruments that are unwanted or too expensive to maintain.
By ELLEN BARRY
Vassily Sigarev, whose play "Black Milk" is now running in New York, tells violent and disturbing tales of life in post-Soviet Russia.
Books of The Times
By JANET MASLIN
Rachel Joyce's first novel contrives a way to shake a lonely English milquetoast out of his monotonous life and send him on a voyage of self-discovery.
NEW YORK / REGION
By AL BAKER
New York and other states are moving toward a system that requires aspiring teachers to prove themselves through lesson plans and other materials.
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
When Stu Loeser leaves next month as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's press secretary, the mayor will have to finish his term without one of his most trusted advisers.
By NATE SCHWEBER
Church members and politicians offer condolences after Lloyd Morgan Jr., 4, and Kemar Brooks, 14, were shot to death in the Bronx last week.
MEDIA & ADVERTISING
TV Sports
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Twitter has turned into a fiery digital soapbox against NBC, as its users have merged their resentment over tape delay with problems viewing the live streams.
The Media Equation
By DAVID CARR
The hacking scandal in Britain has mostly been treated as a malady confined to an island, rather than a signature event in a rugged stretch for journalism worldwide.
Advertising
By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
Nabisco Honey Maid graham crackers, which has not run television commercials since the 1990s, is beginning a campaign to promote new products: Grahamfuls sandwich crackers and Honey Maid Angry Birds.
EDITORIALS
Editorial
House Republicans have not given up on their campaign to narrow access to birth control, abortion care and lifesaving cancer screenings. Far from it.
Editorial
In assessing the Keystone XL pipeline, the Obama administration must ask an essential question: What is the pipeline's likely effect on the climate?
Editorial
A federal magistrate nominated by President Obama to fill an appeals court seat has been blocked from a confirmation vote by Republicans intent on frustrating anything the president does.
OP-ED
Op-Ed Columnist
By BILL KELLER
Boomers have been under attack, but there are some ways to earn back a little respect.
Op-Ed Columnist
By PAUL KRUGMAN
What would policy makers have to do to save the euro - and will they do it?
Campaign Stops
By THOMAS B. EDSALL
The debate over voter ID laws has the potential to shape public perception of the fairness of the 2012 election.
ON THIS DAY
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.
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