Teen’s hanging, ruled a suicide, leaves questions unanswered
A young black man is dead. The police are roundly criticized. Angry protesters march through the streets. But unlike the deaths of black men in New York and Ferguson, Mo.,...
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Triple bombing in northern Iraq kills at least 58 people
A series of bomb blasts Sunday targeting a compound housing Kurdish security and intelligence forces in the northeast Iraq province of Diyala killed at least 58 people and wounded scores...
Former Marine in urination video found dead in North Carolina
Former Marine sniper Robert Richards, a central figure in a 2012 video scandal involving Marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan insurgents, has been found dead at his home in...
Who and where were Bowe Bergdahl’s captors? And why?
The armed Taliban fighters who captured Bowe Bergdahl in southeastern Afghanistan on June 30, 2009, quickly handed him to a far more dangerous group that shuttled him between hide-outs in...
Judge rules Army command interfered in Sinclair sex assault case
FT. BRAGG, N.C. -- A military judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Army improperly interfered with a decision to reject an offer by Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair to plead guilty...
West Virginia chemical company files for bankruptcy after leak
Bombarded by lawsuits and under federal investigation, the chemical company that spilled a dangerous solvent into a West Virginia river and fouled the drinking water of 300,000 people filed for...
West Virginia puzzled, outraged over chemical leak
Few people in West Virginia had any idea that an obscure company was storing a mysterious coal-washing chemical in tanks overlooking the Elk River, just upstream from a major water...
Ex-guards indicted in Afghan killings
Two former employees of the firm formerly known as Blackwater were charged Thursday with killing two Afghan civilians after a traffic incident in Kabul. Justin Cannon, 27, and Christopher Drotleff,...
An exporter of misery keeps its share
The heroin fumes rose, gray and twisting, into the nostrils of Mohammed Jawad Rezaie. He inhaled and relaxed. For a moment, he stopped scratching at his lice-infested groin. He lost...
Digital killing the box camera
Habibullah owns the last box camera still standing on Kabul's Char-e-Sadart Street. It's a classic -- a battered, brightly painted box with a dusty lens at one end and a...