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March 15, 2021 at 4:19 pm

Two Are Charged With Assault on Officer Who Died After Capitol Riot VIEW

WASHINGTON — Two men were charged with assaulting Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the Capitol Police and other officers with a chemical spray during the...

February 26, 2021 at 6:11 pm

FBI said to have singled out potential assailant in Capitol officer’s death

WASHINGTON — The FBI has pinpointed an assailant in its investigation into the death of Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer who was injured while...

An image released by the Metro Nashville Police Department shows Anthony Warner driving an RV packed with explosives through downtown Nashville early on Christmas. No one beside Warner was killed in the explosion, but property damage was severe. (Metro Nashville Police Department via The New York Times)

February 24, 2021 at 4:17 pm

Nashville bomber obsessed with alien-lizard theory

Though the Christmas bomber’s motive remains shrouded, false information and outlandish tales had poisoned his mind, apparently driving him to spectacular violence. This mindset has...

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February 22, 2021 at 7:56 pm

U.S. arrests El Chapo’s wife, charging her with helping to run drug empire

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficker, best known as El Chapo, was arrested Monday and charged with helping her husband...

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January 23, 2021 at 11:27 am

Inside the deadly Capitol shooting

WASHINGTON — During the 4 1/2-hour attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, one of the moments when the mob came closest to the lawmakers...

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In an image released by the Metro Nashville Police Department, the RV that later exploded is driven through downtown Nashville, Tenn. on the early-morning hours of Christmas, Dec. 25, 2020. Three people were injured when the RV exploded at about 6 am on the normally-bustling 2nd Avenue, in what police said was apparently an intentional act. (Metro Nashville Police Department via The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY — XNYTF XNYTF

December 28, 2020 at 9:44 am

A quiet life, a thunderous death, and a nightmare that shook Nashville

Now that they have determined who set off the bomb in Nashville on Christmas Day, investigators are trying to make sense of who he was...

December 1, 2020 at 10:17 am

Another Official Is Ousted From the Pentagon

The firing of Christopher P. Maier, the head of the Pentagon’s Defeat ISIS Task Force since March 2017, was announced to Maier by a White...

November 25, 2020 at 1:49 pm

CIA Officer Is Killed in Somalia

WASHINGTON — A veteran CIA officer was killed in combat in Somalia in recent days, according to current and former U.S. officials, a death that...

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November 25, 2020 at 12:20 pm

Stock Trades by Sen. Perdue Said to Have Prompted Justice Department Inquiry

WASHINGTON — Early this year, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., sold more than $1 million worth of stock in the financial company Cardlytics, where he once...

The FBI wanted poster for Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, the second-highest official in al-Qaida, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri. He was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials from multiple countries have confirmed. (Federal Bureau of Investigation via The New York Times) — EDITORIAL USE ONLY —

November 13, 2020 at 5:13 pm

Al-Qaida’s No. 2, accused in U.S. Embassy attacks, is secretly killed in Iran

The killing occurred in such a netherworld of geopolitical intrigue and counterterrorism spycraft that the death of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom...

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