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| Murder and racial clichés | | Opinion: Eric Deggans says misidentified race and false photos in slaying reports distort a more complex truth. |
| Sportswriter blogs suicide | | On his 60th birthday, Martin Manley went to a police station parking lot, called 911 and shot himself in the head. Before that, he told his story online. |
| Syria's lost youth | | Nine-year-old Dia'a sat in the back of his father's car on the cool afternoon when a sniper fired a bullet at his heart. His brother Alaa, 15, was seated next to him. Their father sped through the streets desperate to flee shelling that was destroying their neighborhood in Dara'a, in southwest Syria. |
| 1 million child refugees | | The UNHCR has announced that we have reached the one millionth Syrian child refugee mark. It is a terrifying statistic if you really digest it and don't just read it as a sanitized account of a tragic war. |
| Competing claims | | Syrian officials say their troops were victims of rebel chemical weapons. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports. |
| Exclusive: Obama gathering information | | The time is nearing for a potentially definitive U.S. response to alleged Syrian government atrocities and an increasingly violent military crackdown in Egypt, President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview broadcast Friday on CNN's "New Day." |
| Kerry, Syrian envoy talk as Pentagon plans | | The U.S. government is stepping up its involvement in the Syrian crisis after allegations of chemical weapons use -- with its top military official making plans to respond quickly, and its top diplomat reaching out to Syria's foreign minister and others in the wake of the report. |
| Government, rebels blame each other | | As Western powers try to verify claims that Syria deployed chemical weapons last week, the government is pointing the finger at rebel forces. |
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