Terrorism

Police officers lay down floral tributes handed to them by members of the public at the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London.

Midday Roundup: British security services knew knife-wielding attackers

Newsworthy |  Terror in London. British security and intelligence forces acknowledged today they knew about the two men accused of attacking and killing a British soldier…

Osama bin Laden

Midday Roundup: Bin Laden death photos to remain top secret

Newsworthy |  Classified material. A federal appeals court ruled today the government does not have to release 50 images taken of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden…

Myanmar President Thein Sein

Globe Trot: Soft sell in Washington for Myanmar democracy

International |  Myanmar President Thein Sein meets in Washington today with President Barack Obama and contends in a Washington Post interview that the army he has presided over…

Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Midday Roundup: Boston bombing investigation targets terror groups

Newsworthy |  Radical links? A former Chechnyan separatist who is now a refugee in the United States has become a key focus in the Boston Marathon bombing…

A crucifix hangs from a tree at the site of the second Boston Marathon bombing, one month after the bombing in Boston, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Midday Roundup: Boston bombs ‘payback’ for Americans killing Muslims

Newsworthy |  Payback. Suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a message for authorities in the boat where he thought he would spend his last hours on earth: He and…

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice

Obama administration releases Benghazi documents

Benghazi Attack |  The White House is releasing 100 pages of emails and notes tied to the Obama administration's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan

Nigerian president declares a state of emergency

International |  Northeast Nigeria is in a state of emergency after the country’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, announced Islamic extremists control some of the area’s…

Actor Kiefer Sutherland, who plays Jack Bauer on Fox TV's <i>24</i>.

Jack is back

Television |  The clock ran out on the hit Fox television series 24 two years ago, but according to a May 13 announcement from Fox executives, it’s time to get things…

From right to left: Eric Nordstrom, Gregory Hicks, and Mark Thompson testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday.

Hearing bombshells

Benghazi Attack |  House committee listens to six hours of dramatic and emotional testimony on the Benghazi attacks

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi the day after the attack.

Going rogue

Benghazi Attack |  Top U.S. State Department officials today are set to testify against the White House’s version of the assault on Benghazi

Peter Stefan

Bad grief! Good grief!

Boston Bombings |  U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, the Democratic candidate for the Senate seat that John Kerry left to become secretary of state, orates that Tamerlan Tsarnaev…

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (left) and President Barack Obama at a memorial ceremony outside the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2012.

U.S. ordered troops to ‘stand down’ during Benghazi attack

Benghazi Attack |  For more than six months, a gap has been yawning wide in the Obama administration’s storyline on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed…

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