
Egypt's Morsi grants himself far-reaching powers
Egypt's Islamist president unilaterally decreed greater authorities for himself Thursday and effectively neutralized a judicial system that had ...

Egypt protesters firebomb Al-Jazeera Cairo office
Egyptian protesters firebombed one of the offices of satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera on Wednesday and attacked a police chief who tried to negotiate ...

Mexico focus on police commanders in CIA shooting
In a strange and aggressive attack by Mexican federal police on a U.S. Embassy vehicle that was pumped with 152 bullets, one major question remains: ...

FBI releases Stalin's daughter files
Newly declassified documents show the FBI kept close tabs on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's only daughter after her high profile defection to the ...
72 law enforcement officers were slain last year
The FBI says that 72 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty last year, up from 56 the year before. An additional 53 officers died ...
Shirtless photo of FBI agent silly not scandalous
A newspaper report describes a photograph of a shirtless FBI agent in the case that forced CIA Director David Petraeus to resign abruptly as silly but ...

Border Patrol under scrutiny for deadly force
A pair of Mexican drug smugglers in camouflage pants, bundles of marijuana strapped to their backs, scaled a 25 foot-high fence in the middle of the ...

Chicago's top cop: 'Code of silence' not tolerated
Just before the beating of a female bartender by an off-duty Chicago police officer persuaded him to end his own career, then-police Superintendent ...

Jordan: 1 gunman killed in police station attacks
Gunmen attacked two police stations in Jordan Wednesday as demonstrators threw rocks and denounced their king over price hikes in a rare spike of ...

FBI says agents at the home of Petraeus lover
FBI agents on Monday night searched the North Carolina home of the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA ...

Motive behind Michigan police HQ shooting unclear
A 64-year-old man who was killed after walking into a suburban Detroit police station and opening fire on officers without saying a word was a ...
Kenya: 12 police killed in ambush in remote region
A Kenyan official says 12 police officers were killed when they were ambushed while pursuing men who had stolen cattle. Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe ...

Feinstein: FBI should have told us about Petraeus
The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she wants to know why the FBI didn't tell her sooner that agents were investigating an extramarital ...
Colorado police officer killed by friendly fire
A police officer was shot and killed Friday by another officer after several agencies responded to a report of shots fired at a home in the Denver ...

Russian police: Politkovskaya killed for reporting
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed for her criticism of Russian officials, an investigator who led the murder probe says.

Fear of looting grips NYC as new storm threatens
Richard Chan prowled around his cold, dark Staten Island home with knives and a sword to protect it from thieves, standing his ground as another East ...
Suspected jihadis kill 3 police in Egypt's Sinai
Egyptian security officials say suspected Islamic militants have ambushed police in the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing three. The gunmen pulled in ...

Border agents in contact before deadly shooting
A new report into a shooting that left a U.S. Border Patrol agent dead says three agents responding to an alarm were apparently in radio contact as ...
Roadside bomb kills Afghan district police chief
Officials say a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan has killed a district police chief, as the insurgents increasingly target Afghan security ...
4 Afghan police killed in insider attack
Four Afghan police officers were shot dead Friday in southern Helmand province in an insider attack by their colleagues, officials said.
Secret Service agent who hid affair kills himself
For nearly six years, a senior Secret Service agent kept his extramarital affair with a Mexican woman a secret from the agency responsible for ...
Secret Service agent kills self amid affair probe
A senior Secret Service agent who was being investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen ...
Attorneys say Iowa detectives framed Nebraska men
Lawyers for two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a retired white Iowa police officer told jurors in a civil trial Thursday that ...

Israel confirms killing Arafat deputy in 1988
Israel acknowledged Thursday it killed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's deputy in a 1988 raid in Tunisia, lifting a nearly 25-year veil of secrecy ...