The World - Oct. 25, 2012

THURSDAY

The Boy Scouts of America released 20,000 pages of files laying bare child sexual abuse in the organization between 1965 and 1985. The pages included 1,247 files on suspected and convicted pedophiles.

A U.S. military court ruled that Fort Hood shooting suspect Major Nidal Hasan must shave his beard, which he says he grew because of his Muslim faith, before appearing for court-martial on murder charges connected to the 2009 rampage.

Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez was arrested and charged with accepting bribes from a consultant whose clients he allegedly aided by slashing their...