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Beverly Blakes, the aunt of fallen Baton Rouge, La., police officer Montrell Jackson, hugs Kedrick Pitts, Jackson's half-brother, after visiting Jackson's mother in Baton Rouge, on July 17, 2016. Jackson was one of the three officers who were fatally shot earlier in the day.

Baton Rouge officers ‘targeted and assassinated,’ police say

August 21, 2019 at 7:14 p.m.

Authorities said Monday that they believe the gunman who opened fire in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a day earlier, killing three police officers and injuring three others before he was fatally...

House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, watches as the committee's ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., questions Hillary Rodham Clinton during the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 22, 2015. Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional security at the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, according to Democrats on a select House panel who absolved the former secretary of state and the U.S. military of wrongdoing in the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attacks.

Dems’ Benghazi report: Clinton ‘engaged’ during attack, panel ‘squandered millions of taxpayer dollars’

June 11, 2018 at 9:48 p.m.

Evidence collected by the House Select Committee on the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya confirms that Defense Department actions could not have saved the lives of four Americans killed, that...

Ex-wife of suspected Orlando nightclub shooter: ‘He beat me’

August 21, 2019 at 6:44 p.m.

Sometime after 2 a.m. Sunday, Omar Mateen dialed Orlando's 911 service to alert the dispatcher to the carnage unfolding at one of the city's most popular gay bars. He spelled...

Islamic State jailer who held Western hostages ID’d as Briton

June 21, 2019 at 11:11 a.m.

A member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old...

Friend of San Bernardino gunman expected to be charged Thursday

June 16, 2018 at 9:31 a.m.

¿U.S. law enforcement officials said that gun charges are expected to be announced Thursday against Enrique Marquez, who bought the assault rifles used in the San Bernardino attack. It is...

Officials: San Bernardino shooters pledged allegiance to the Islamic State

May 17, 2019 at 8:34 p.m.

Federal authorities believe that the Facebook posting from one of the attackers who killed 14 people here last week was made on behalf of both shooters, according to several senior...

The masked man in this image from a video released in 2014 by Islamic State militants was identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British citizen.

U.S. drone strike targets ‘Jihadi John’ from Islamic State execution videos

August 21, 2019 at 5:59 p.m.

The U.S. military launched a drone strike Thursday targeting "Jihadi John," the masked Islamic State terrorist who beheaded several Western hostages in Syria and came to symbolize the brutality of...

Razor wire-topped fence at the abandoned "Camp X-Ray" detention facility at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

4 Guantanamo prisoners transferred to Afghanistan

June 25, 2019 at 12:05 a.m.

Four detainees held for more than a decade at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been transferred to Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced on Saturday. The Afghan...

Cuban spy reportedly helped U.S. uncover 3 espionage networks

June 22, 2019 at 10:31 p.m.

The CIA's Latin America Division has run many spies in Cuba, but Rolando Sarraff Trujillo was in a class all his own. From his perch as a cryptographer in Cuba's...

Rise and fall of CIA’s ‘secret’ overseas prisons traced in Senate report on interrogations

June 22, 2019 at 12:51 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Three days after the planes had plunged into New York's tallest towers, a secret message went out to CIA stations overseas. Start making a list of potential detention...

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