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FILE - This Sept. 13, 2012 file photo shows a cameraman filming one of U.S. consulate burnt out offices after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. The U.S. has identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and have enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists _ but not enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian criminal court, the process the Obama administration prefers, U.S. officials said. (AP photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

FBI ID's Benghazi suspects _ but no arrests yet

The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian ...

  • Updated: 9:04 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
FILE – In this March 30, 2010, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. trooper stands in the turret of a vehicle with a machine gun, left, as a guard looks out from a tower at the detention facility of Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. New details on the administration's budget request emerged on Tuesday and underscored the contradiction of the president waging a political fight to shutter the facility ...

  • Updated: 7:51 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

UN urges action to end child soldiers in Myanmar

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Myanmar's government has made progress in reducing the recruitment of children into the armed forces but still needs to stamp out the practice. Ban's comments came as Myanmar President Thein Sein was making a landmark visit to Washington. The former general met with President Barack ...

  • Updated: 7:17 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Man gets 10 years for fatal street fight

A Jacksonville man who said he was defending himself when he fatally shot another man during a street fight has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. A Duval County judge sentenced 20-year-old Quintavis Sermond Seay on Monday for manslaughter. The Florida Times-Union (http://goo.gl/2SJ0H ) reports that under a plea ...

  • Updated: 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
An aerial view shows the Monday tornado's path through a residential area Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

No new funds needed for Okla. tornado recovery

Top lawmakers and officials said Tuesday that the federal government has plenty of money on hand to pay for recovery efforts in the wake of the devastating tornado that struck Oklahoma. The government has more than $11 billion in its main disaster relief fund. Recovery costs in the Oklahoma City ...

  • Updated: 5:57 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Deal on bin Laden evidence in WikiLeaks case

Lawyers in the court-martial of an Army private who sent more than 700,000 classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks said Tuesday they have reached a deal that may eliminate the need for testimony from a member of the military team that killed Osama bin Laden. Prosecutors also agreed to accept Pfc. ...

  • Updated: 5:49 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Feds halt data cull for State Dept terror report

The federal government has given the job of compiling statistics used by the State Department to analyze trends in global terrorism to an academic group, a move that may complicate accurate unclassified assessments of patterns of terrorist activity for years to come. As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver a ...

  • Updated: 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
CORRECTS THAT LASHLEY IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A HOUSEBOAT, NOT ARSON - This image provided by the Park County Sheriff's Office shows David Leon Lashley, who was arrested May 20, 2013, in Wyoming near the Montana border by U.S. Marshals and U.S. Coast Guard investigators. Lashley is suspected of faking his own death and wanted in connection with the disappearance of a houseboat in which he allegedly attempted to fake his death. He is also wanted for failing to appear in court in March. (AP Photo/Park County Sheriff's Office)

Fla. man suspected of faking death found in Wyo.

A Florida man suspected of faking his own death has been arrested in Wyoming. Fifty-year-old David Leon Lashley was arrested Monday in the Clark area near the Montana border by U.S. Marshals and U.S. Coast Guard investigators. Park County Sheriff Scott A. Steward said Tuesday that Lashley fled Florida in ...

  • Updated: 5:34 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Fort Jackson commander facing adultery charges

The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation. The Army says Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts reportedly was in an altercation with another woman, not his wife. Roberts was suspended from his job by ...

  • Updated: 5:22 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Residents greet Mexican army soldiers as they enter the town of La Ruana, Michoacan, Mexico, Monday, May 20, 2013. Residents of western Mexico towns who endured months besieged by a drug cartel are cheering the arrival of hundreds of Mexican army troops. A growing number of people in the state of Michoacan have taken up arms to defend their villages against drug gangs, a vigilante movement born of frustration at extortion, killings and kidnappings in a region wracked by violence. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Soldiers flood western Mexico to protect towns

Mexico's top security officials promised Tuesday that a new federal offensive to rescue towns besieged by the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Michoacan state would stay "until there is security and peace for all state residents." Interior Secretary Miguel Osorio Chong and his national security team met with local ...

  • Updated: 5:23 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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