FILE - A Tuesday, May 21, 2013 file photo, an aerial view shows Plaza Towers Elementary School, which was destroyed in Monday's tornado, in Moore, Okla. Unlike several others schools in the Oklahoma City area, Plaza Towers had no “safe room” in which students and teachers could huddle. The deaths of seven students at Plaza…
FILE - James Holmes, Aurora theater shooting suspect, sits in the courtroom during his arraignment in Centennial, Colo., in a Tuesday, March 12, 2013 file photo. Holmes' lawyers plans to ask a judge on Monday, May 13, 2013 to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, a move that is widely seen…
FILE - This June 7, 2012 file photo shows U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice listening during a news conference at the UN. Senior State Department officials pressed for changes in the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last September, expressing…
Essential News from The Associated Press AAA May. 5, 2013 9:51 AM ETSyria: Israel strike makes region 'more dangerous'AP AIM ShareIn this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke and fire fill the the skyline over Damascus, Syria, early Sunday,…
FILE - In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 file photo, an Afghan police man offers evening prayers on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. As the country braces for next year's presidential election and the planned withdrawal of most foreign combat troops by the end of 2014, the panel urges the U.S. government and its allies…
FILE - In this March 28, 2013 file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the Pentagon. Hagel said Thursday that U.S. intelligence has concluded "with some degree of varying confidence," that the Syrian government has used sarin gas as a weapon in its 2-year-old civil war, (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)FILE - In this March…
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 file photo, a Syrian woman stands amid the ruins of her house which was destroyed in an airstrike by government warplanes a few days earlier, killing 11 members of her family, in the neighborhood of Ansari, Aleppo, Syria. President Bashar Assad has exploited his greatest advantage on…
FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base, that was captured by the…
FILE Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., argues with National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre as supporters and opponents of stricter gun control measures face off at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Jan. 30, 2013 file photo. Senators writing a massive immigration bill plan to greatly increase the number of…
FILE - This is a 1980 file photo showing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Ex-spokesman Tim Bell says that Thatcher has died. She was 87. Bell said the woman known to friends and foes as "the Iron Lady" passed away Monday morning, April 8, 2013. (AP Photo/File)FILE - This is a 1980 file photo showing…
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