In a gruesome replay of earlier beheadings of captive Christians, a new Islamic State video spread on social media on Sunday purportedly shows the point-blank shootings and beheadings of two groups of Ethiopian Christians in Libya. Confronting the Islamic State militants With an American public wary of being drawn into another expensive overseas conflict, a skeptical Congress and the lack of an imminent threat to the United States, President Obama must weigh his actions against the Islamic State carefully. Here is a collection of stories by Los Angeles Times reporters about... Read more stories The footage purports to show the killings taking place in two locations, one described as...