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Trial To Begin For 3 Somali-Americans Accused Of Planning To Join ISIS

7:41am May 09, 2016

by Dina Temple-Raston

Jury selection starts Monday in this country's largest ISIS recruitment trial to date. Three Somali-Americans face charges in a Minneapolis federal court for allegedly planning to join ISIS in Syria.

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When A Young Child Accidentally Shoots Herself, Who's Responsible?

7:59am May 07, 2016

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with Jean Peters Baker, a Missouri prosecutor who has brought murder charges against the father of a toddler who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Department Of Homeland Security Officer May Be Linked To Deadly Shootings In Maryland

5:25pm May 06, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Maryland police say it appears that Eulalio Tordil, who is suspected of killing his wife on Thursday, is connected to two shootings on Friday. Tordil has been taken into custody.

Federal investigators have interviewed Huma Abedin and other top Hillary Clinton aides as part of an ongoing investigation into the candidate's use of a private email server as secretary of state.

FBI Probe Of Clinton Email Use Advances With Aides' Interviews

6:32pm May 05, 2016

by Carrie Johnson

Federal investigators have interviewed top aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. They're asking whether her email practices as secretary of state compromised government secrets.

U.S. Navy air wing captains pause on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt last September. Every day, the steam-powered catapult aboard this massive ship flings American fighter jets into the sky, on missions to target the extremi

U.S. Army Captain Is Suing Obama Over Legality Of The War Against ISIS

1:29pm May 05, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Capt. Nathan Michael Smith, who is currently on active duty in Kuwait, says he is concerned that an "illegal" war "forces him to violate his oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution."

Presidential Candidates Offer Aggressive Strategies To Combat ISIS

7:27pm May 04, 2016

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Nora Bensahel, a scholar in residence at American University's School of International Service, about the stated ISIS strategies of the remaining presidential candidates.

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Faced with the prospect of long wait times at airports this summer, Homeland Security is boosting its checkpoint staffing. In this photo from December, passengers line up to go through security at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

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TSA Boosts Number Of Security Staff, Aiming At Airport Bottlenecks

1:02pm May 04, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson hopes that adding staff to security checkpoints will prevent longer wait times that had been projected for this summer.

U.S. Mission In Iraq Called Into Question After Death Of Service Member

4:25pm May 03, 2016

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Fred Kaplan of Slate about the American mission in Iraq. President Obama vowed the U.S. would not have a combat role when he sent American forces back to Iraq to fight ISIS.

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in the mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan in 1998. It has been five years since he was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan.

CIA 'Live Tweets' Bin Laden Raid On 5th Anniversary

8:12pm May 02, 2016

by Dana Farrington

Osama bin Laden was killed in May 2011. The Internet isn't sure that reconstructing the raid through tweets was the best idea. However you remember that day, here are some things to keep in mind.

In Iraq, Sectarian Militias Threaten To Distract From Fight Against ISIS

4:26pm May 02, 2016

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with intelligence expert Derek Harvey about what recent instability in Baghdad means for the United States.