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On Thursday, President Obama makes a major address on the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa and what those events mean for the U.S. His comments will likely be compared to his speech in Cairo in June 2009, where he went to "seek a new beginning" in the region and the Muslim world.

Tucson continues to struggle with the emotional distress caused by the shooting rampage at a local shopping center.

Syria vehemently denounces the United Nations' report on that country's role in the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Anthony Shadid, Middle East correspondent for The Washington Post, has details of Damascus' response.

There's widespread agreement among state politicians that they need to take more care with their rhetoric in the wake of Saturday's shootings. But there are also questions about how long gentler tones will predominate in a state where politics have grown more polarized — and far more heated — in recent years.

A midnight deadline for protesters in Tibet to turn themselves over to Chinese authorities passed on Monday as residents of Lhasa braced for house-to-house searches by police following a violent crackdown that left 16 people dead, according to official figures.

Elected officials say violent threats occasionally come with the job, but many politicians assert that the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others reflects a culture that has become too heated and rife with instigation to violence.

Elected officials say violent threats occasionally come with the job, but many politicians assert that the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others reflects a culture that has become too heated.

Jared Lee Loughner, 22, who is in law enforcement custody, lives near the scene of the shooting, which killed six people and injured at least a dozen others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said there's reason to believe Loughner has "a mental issue."

Law enforcement officials continue to piece together the facts from Saturday's shooting rampage that left a federal judge dead and a congresswoman critically injured in Arizona.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) remained in critical condition Sunday, a day after she was seriously wounded in a shooting rampage that killed at least six people and injured at least a dozen others in Tucson. Police and investigators were trying to piece together the alleged shooter's motive as they searched for a possible accomplice.