A committee in Connecticut created to investigate the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting is recommending onerous new burdens on homeschooling parents whose children have “emotional or behavioral disabilities”—even though the shooter was in public school for longer than he was homeschooled.

The fighting in Kobani and continued advance of ISIS on the Turkish border has spurred Turkey’s President and PM to suggest they would be willing to commit ground troops.

A U.S. team under the auspices of the Energy Department is on the ground in Ukraine to try to find solutions to the impending disaster of a winter without Russian gas. The pressure will keep mounting on the West help pay both Ukraine’s unpaid gas bill and Gazprom’s current above-market prices for the gas that will see Ukraine through the winter.

The Syrian Civil War spilled over into Lebanon again, as Hezbollah drove back a “major offensive” by al-Nusra fighters.

This would be the first such move by a member of the EU—and is the product of a line of reasoning that really should be defunct by now.

Many leaders of Occupy Central are Christians, a fact which could intensify conflict between the government and this religious minority. But the religious factor in the protest points to the more general persistence of civil society in Hong Kong—and its disappearance in mainland China.

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has fired her Central Bank head, Juan Carlos Fabrega, and replaced him with someone even further to the left.

Apache helicopters based in Baghdad have carried out strikes in Iraq. This not only increases the risk of American pilots being shot down, but stretches the meaning of the President’s pledge against combat troops.

Jordan is cracking down on Islamists within its borders at the same time as it pitches in with the anti-ISIS coalition. Keep an eye on this often-overlooked but vital buffer state.

We could learn a lot from the rest of the world when it comes to health care, if only we would let go of a few persistent myths.