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Police secure the area outside the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, near the Tunisian Parliament building, where two gunmen were killed after an attack at the museum killed 19 people on Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

AP: Islamic State claims responsibility for Tunisia attack

Associated Press March 19, 2015

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack that killed 21 people at a museum. But Tunisian authorities said the two slain gunmen had no clear links to extremists, and analysts...

AP: Police, other groups try to tamp down tensions in Ferguson

Associated Press March 12, 2015

With measured remarks and a conciliatory tone, police, political leaders and civil-rights activists on Thursday sought to tamp down tensions after two police officers were shot in front of the Ferguson...

Injured U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert, center, gets into a car to leave for a hospital on March 5, 2015. Lippert was injured by a blade-wielding attacker. An 'armed man' shouted, 'No to war training!' before attacking him, the Yonhap news agency reported.

US envoy to South Korea in stable condition after knife attack

Associated Press March 5, 2015

U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert was in stable condition after a man screaming demands for a unified North and South Korea slashed him on the face and wrist with a knife, South Korean police and U.S. officials...

Harrison Ford crash-lands plane on golf course

Associated Press March 5, 2015

Harrison Ford crash-landed his vintage airplane at a Los Angeles golf course Thursday, an official said. He suffered moderate injuries and was taken to a hospital.The actor's single-engine plane went down...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a news conference after a roundtable meeting at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

Clinton urges State Dept. to release her emails

Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the State Department to release the emails she wrote from a private email account as secretary of state, weighing in on a controversy that has generated negative attention...

Locator map of shopping malls under threat of al-Shabab attack.

AP: al-Qaida-linked rebel group urges attacks on US shopping malls

Andrew Meldrum, Associated Press February 23, 2015

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A video purported to be by Somalia's al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries.U.S. authorities...

AP: Somalia extremists urge attacks on US shopping malls

Associated Press February 22, 2015

JOHANNESBURG — A video purported to be by Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries.The threat...

Caskets are carried into a public funeral for Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21,and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19 on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 at the Islamic Association of Raleigh's cemetery in Wendell, N.C. Barakat and his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were killed in a shooting Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Corey Lewenstein/News & Observer/TNS)

AP: Man indicted on 3 counts of murder in NC deaths of Muslims

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury in North Carolina indicted a man Monday on three counts of murder in the shootings of three young Muslims in what authorities have said was a dispute over parking spaces.Television...

Malaysia says MH370 crash an accident to clear compensation

Associated Press January 29, 2015

Malaysia's government formally declared still-missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 an accident on Thursday and said all those on board were presumed dead, paving the way for compensation claims but...

AP: Drone crashes at White House; hobbyist says it’s his

WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-foot-long drone apparently flown by a hobbyist crashed on the White House grounds Monday in an extraordinary, if unintended, breach that raised fresh questions about the...

A Houthi fighter stands outside a presidential guard barrack overlooking the presidential palace on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, one day after clashes erupted between presidential guards and Shiite Houthi fighters.

Yemen’s US-backed president quits, country could split apart

Ahmed Al-haj, Associated Press January 22, 2015

Yemen's U.S.-backed president quit Thursday under pressure from rebels holding him captive in his home, severely complicating American efforts to combat al-Qaida's powerful local franchise and raising...

A Navy captain has been fired and is being investigated in connection with an alleged affair with a woman on the base and the recent death of her husband. The captain was in charge of the naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where this trio of captives kept in communal lockup at the base are seen at prayer on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in this image that was cropped to pass review by the U.S. military.

Navy officer fired, probe involves affair, suspicious death

Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press January 22, 2015

The Navy captain in charge of the naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been fired and is being investigated in connection with an alleged affair with a woman on the base and the recent death of...