UNDERCOVER STINGS — USED TO FIGHT DOMESTIC TERRORISM
By ROXANA HEGEMAN In this undated photo provided by the Sedgwick County, Kan., Clerkâs Office, a booking mugshot of Terry Lee Loewen is seen. The 58-year-old avionics technician who worked…
Military and defense
THAI DEMOCRACY ENTERS DANGEROUS NEW CROSSROADS
By TODD PITMAN Thai anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban gives a Thai tradition way of greeting “wai”, addressing his supporters at the Government House following a march rally Monday, Dec.…
RADICAL PREACHER GOES ON TRIAL IN JORDAN
By JAMAL HALABY FILE – In this Tuesday, April 17, 2012 file photo, Radical al-Qaida-linked preacher Abu Qatada is driven away after being refused bail at a hearing at London’s…
PUTIN VOWS TO BEEF UP ARCTIC MILITARY PRESENCE
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Col. Gen. Valery Gerasimov during a meeting with the…
NAVAL ACADEMY CHIEF DISCUSSES SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE
FILE – In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, Vice Adm. Michael Miller, poses for photographs after the Army-Navy NCAA college football game…
WITNESS: 100 ABOARD COSTA SHIP WHEN CAPTAIN FLED
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Coast Guard Capt. Gregorio De Falco, right, arrives at the Grosseto court, Italy, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. A Italian Coast Guard official has testified that hundreds of…
TECH GIANTS CALL FOR CONTROLS ON GOV’T SNOOPING
By DANICA KIRKA FILE – In this undated file photo made available by Google, hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the computer servers into a cooling unit to be…
HAGEL WARNS PAKISTAN LEADERS OVER BORDER PROTESTS
By LOLITA C. BALDOR U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, speaks during a meeting with Afghan military leaders in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. Hagel spoke with U.S.…