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  • President Obama speaks about national security on May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington as CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin shouted at him from the back of the auditorium. (Associated Press)

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  • ** FILE ** In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released on Saturday, May 7, 2011, by the U.S. Department of Defense, a man whom the American government identified as Osama bin Laden watches television with an image of President Obama on the screen. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. troops. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Defense)

    Court: U.S. can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

    A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.

  • ** FILE ** President Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Mr. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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  • China's combat drone is described as "a stark example of China's broad investment in advanced military technologies."

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  • Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press, calls the Justice Department's gathering of two months worth of phone records from AP "serious interference with AP's constitutional rights to gather and report news."
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    Inside the Beltway: AP plays hardball

    News coverage was swift and straightforward following revelations that the Justice Department secretly had obtained two months worth of phone records from The Associated Press, an action the wire service President and CEO Gary Pruitt deemed an "unprecedented intrusion" and "serious interference with AP's constitutional rights to gather and report news," in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. made public on Monday. Those are fighting words from Mr. Pruitt, the former CEO of news syndicate McClatchey Co., who has been on the job just over a year.

  • Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 6, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice." (Associated Press)

    Justice Department seizes telephone records from Associated Press reporters

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  • Embassy Row: Former ambassador says Benghazi debacle will hurt ability to recruit diplomats

    A former U.S. ambassador with extensive knowledge of terrorist operations in North Africa warned Thursday that the Benghazi debacle will hurt the State Department's ability to recruit diplomats for dangerous duty if they fear Washington will ignore their concerns about security.

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    Giuliani: Boston bombings show threat of homegrown jihadists

    Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said the Obama administration should ratchet up its focus on homegrown terrorists and their links to overseas jihadists despite the death of Osama bin Laden, citing the Boston Marathon bombings as a reminder that radicalized Islam is a constant threat.

  • A sisterhood of female CIA analysts who became somewhat obsessed with al Qaeda and its leader are talking on camera for the HBO documentary "Manhunt," which debuted Wednesday night. (HBO)

    CIA women who hunted bin Laden in the spotlight; TV documentary reveals inside story

    The look at those who hunted Osama bin Laden begins with the sisterhood — a collection of female CIA analysts who became somewhat obsessed with al Qaeda and its leader. They now are talking on camera for the HBO documentary "Manhunt," which debuted Wednesday night, two years after the terrorist mastermind was killed and weeks after another jihadist attack on America at the Boston Marathon.

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    GORDON: A late ticket to Guantanamo

    Though separated by 240 years, the Boston massacres of 1773 and 2013 share disturbing themes.

  • Nicaragua's National Police agents escort U.S. citizen Eric Justin Toth to be presented to the press at a police station in Managua, Nicaragua, Monday April 22, 2013. Toth was detained by police Saturday, April 10, 2013, in Esteli, a city near Nicaragua's border with Honduras. Toth is on the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives as a suspect in a child pornography investigation, authorities confirmed Monday. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

    Former D.C. teacher on 'most wanted' list arrested in Nicaragua

    A recent tip led the FBI to Nicaragua, where local authorities arrested the former D.C. private school teacher who took Osama bin Laden's place on the bureau's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, officials said Tuesday.

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