POLITICS

It hasn't been a good couple of weeks for Chick-Fil-A's PR. Bad enough that the restaurant chain may have taken to using fake sock puppet Facebook accounts to defend itself over the internet.

The alleged gunman behind the Aurora massacre sent a package to a Colorado psychiatrist that depicted stick figures shooting other stick figures and other illustrations of the massacre, according to Fox News.

American children's well-being have improved in education and health despite the recent economic downturn. However, between 2005 and 2010, 2.4 million more children were living in families and more parents are finding it hard to get steady employment.

One woman present at the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting has been hospitalized, but not for the reason some may think. Katie Medley escaped what has been called “The Dark Knight Massacre” and has just given birth to a baby boy, NBC News has reported.

Clark Tabor was arrested on Sunday for causing a disturbance in a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” when he allegedly asked Does anyone have a gun? and exclaimed I should go off like in Colorado. As people become more sensitive after the tragedy, free speech and gun control are brought into question.

Heavy flooding in the central Nigerian state of Plateau has caused at least 39 deaths and washed away dozens of homes after a dam near the city of Jos overflowed.

While there is public outcry for a discussion on gun control, residents in Colorado have begun seeking background checks needed to buy guns. A local paper reported there has been an increasing number of people showing interest in carry-permit training.

A small group of Russian fishermen have discovered some 248 human fetuses dumped in a forest near the Ural Mountains 45 miles (70 kilometers) north of the city of Yekaterinburg.

Jimmy Massey and Luis Ruiz were charged on Monday with the killing of Carina Saunders whose dismembered body was found almost a year ago in a duffel bag behind a grocery store. The murder was a result of an alleged sex trafficking, prostitution and drug ring.

Google honored Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday by gracing its homepage with a drawing of aviator boarding a Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane, which she used to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. The birthday celebration appears to be a bittersweet, appropriate commemoration on the heels of first female astronaut Sally Ride’s death on Monday.

The Goat Man mystery has been solved. The man in a goat suit that raised the eyebrows of many in Utah near the Ben Lomond Peak in Ogden is a 57-year-old hunter from Southern California.

Typhoon Vicente hit Hong Kong with strong gale-force winds and torrential rains which made the Hong Kong Observatory hoist the No. 10 tropical cyclone signal overnight. Officials called this the strongest typhoon to hit the city in the past decade. In China, three people were reported dead and five went missing after Vicente caused a landfall over the city of Taishan in south China's Guangdong province.

Fourteen people died in a truck that veered off a South Texas Highway after hitting a tree on Sunday evening. The truck was carrying 23 people, alleged illegeal immegrants, 11 of whom died on the stop and three died later in the area hospital. The remaining nine were injured. Two children were among the dead.

For the last three years, the consensus has been that a robust and self-sustaining recovery for the U.S. economy is on the cards, but economist Nouriel Roubini, dubbed Dr. Doom, thinks that it's not likely to happen, rather he expects below trend growth for many years to come.

Police in Aurora, Colo, said they won't be releasing more information into the investigation of Friday's theater shooting because of an order issued by the court Monday.

A severe typhoon hit Hong Kong Tuesday morning, disrupting business across the financial hub, with offices and the stock market to remain closed for at least part of the morning after the city raised its highest typhoon warning overnight.

Savannah Dietrich, the Kentucky teen who was sexually assaulted last year by two boys, won't face contempt charges after an attorney withdrew a motion to find her in contempt.

Columbine survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was left paralyzed in the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, offered words of encouragement to survivors of Friday's Colorado shooting during a vigil for the victims, families and survivors of The Dark Knight Rises Massacre in Aurora.

Right after the Hong Kong Stock Market closed on Monday; the financial hub was hit by gales as typhoon Vicente swept through it, prompting a red alert. The Hong Kong Observatory issued a No. 8 tropical cyclone warning in Hainan Island in South China immediately which disputed business in the capital and all the workers were asked to go home early from office.

Hill, who has an IQ of 70, will be put to death via lethal injection, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on the execution of mentally disabled prisoners.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has officially fined Penn State $60 million after a horrific scandal, involving retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky molesting young boys, and administration members, like Joe Paterno, attempting to hide the sexual abuse.

The World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, ranked Vietnam the worst country for wildlife protection among 23 nations assessed for enforcement and protection of species prone to poachers, such as rhinos, elephants and tigers. (Check out the full report and list here).

Mourners have gathered together in groups large and small this weekend to pay tribute to the victims of the savage shootings on Friday in Auroro, Colo. At one of them, some lit candles, others left flowers -- and many crafted signs in their memory.

Savannah Dietrich, a 17-year-old Kentucky girl who was the victim of a sexual assault last August, could face contempt-of-court charges for outing her two juvenile attackers on Twitter. If they really feel it's necessary to throw me in jail for talking about what happened to me ... then I don't understand justice, she said.

The Joe Paterno statue that has been the source of so much controversy at Pennsylvania State University was taken down early Sunday. The 7-foot, 900-pound bronze statue was completely removed by 8:20 a.m. EDT by a crew of construction workers using jackhammers and a forklift.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said following the Aurora, Colo., shooting there may be a discussion on gun but that the incident wasn't a Colorado problem. Rather it was a human problem and that suspect James Holmes would have found some other way to cause terror.

The names of the 12 people who died in the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., on Friday has been released. Learn their names and the stories behind the victims as told by families and friends.

The alleged shooter in the Aurora, Colo., massacre, James Holmes, has been placed in solitary confinement at Arapahoe County's detention center. The high-profile nature of Holmes' case has naturally attracted the attention of other inmates, some of whom have threatened to kill the suspect.

James Eagan Holmes, the man who police say acted alone when he shot up a Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colo., on Friday, July 20, reportedly lived in Apartment 10, a small one-bedroom apartment on Paris Street in Aurora, within walking distance of the theater. The building's tenants are comprised of mostly students involved in health studies, CNN reports.