The Security Council has renewed the mandate of United Nations observers tasked with monitoring the cessation of violence in Syria and the full implementation of the international peace plan put forward to end the ongoing crisis.

In a unanimously adopted resolution, the Council extended the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) for a final period of 30 days, “taking into consideration Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s recommendations to reconfigure the Mission, and taking into consideration the operational implications of the increasingly dangerous security situation in Syria.”

AURORA MASSACRE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES. 12 Dead, 58 Shot Viewing Violence.
No motivation yet reported, following the 12 deaths, 30 people hospitalized and 11 are listed in critical condition.

BOOBY TRAPPED APARTMENT. Suspect Leaves Improvised Explosive Devices.
Police are attempting to disable explosives used a camera to look inside an apartment where the shooting suspect set up a series of trip wires behind.

OFFICIALS SAY HOLMES IS A LONER. A Socially Isolated Individual.
He was arrested with an assault rifle, shotgun, and handguns.

The US House of Representatives has passed the fiscal year 2013 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill by a vote of 326-90. The bill includes $518 billion in base funding and an additional $88 billion for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations. Congressman Jose E. Serrano joined 78 other Democrats and 11 Republicans in voting against the measure.

1402 Tamerlane's Mongols defeat Ottoman Turks at Angora.
1588 The Spanish Armada sets sail from Corunna.
1715 The Riot Act goes into effect in England.
1864 Confederates attacks Union forces outside Atlanta.
1867 Imperial troops in Guizhou, China, kill 20,000 Miao rebels.
1881 Sioux chief Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army.
1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes the premier of Russia.
1942 The U.S. Army Women's Army Auxiliary Corps first class at Fort Des Moines, IO.

A midnight Colorado multiplex massacre, which has left 12 innocent people dead after 71 people were shot as movie watchers were killed or injured during an screening of Batman's "Dark Night Rises" is a horrible incident bringing another chapter to our nation's history of mass murders.

A 24 year old Jame Eagen Holmes DOB 12/13/87 is in police custody. Holmes is reportedly the crazed gunman who carried three guns and wore a gas mask as he entered the theater and opened fire at Aurora, Colorado movie complex, randomly killing and shooting into the crowd.