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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 1983 file photo, a soviet mini-submarine used to search for debris from Korean Air Lines flight 007, shot down Sept. 1, 1983 near Sakhalin Island, rests on the deck of a conventional tender vessel in Nevel'sk, Sakhalin Island, in the East Sea off Russia. The plane, with 269 passengers and crew, was shot down by a Russian fighter jet west of Sakhalin Island as it strayed into prohibited Soviet airspace. The plane was en route from New York to Seoul on Sept. 1, 1983, following a route that took it over Alaska before crossing the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)

Glance: Airliners that have been shot down

The Associated Press · July 17, 2014 9:11 pm

Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 17, 2014. Boehner said he can't envision a U.S. response to the border crisis that doesn't involving speeding up the process of returning unaccompanied Central American children home. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Prospects fade for resolution on border crisis

Erica Werner · July 17, 2014 9:05 pm

Congressman: DC gun amendment likely to fail

Congressman: DC gun amendment likely to fail

Jessica Gresko · July 17, 2014 8:43 pm

Bureau of Prisons rejects Chelsea Manning’s transfer request; Army to begin gender treatment

Bureau of Prisons rejects Chelsea Manning’s transfer request; Army to begin gender treatment

Washington Examiner · July 17, 2014 7:52 pm

US defends counterterrorism dialogue with China

US defends counterterrorism dialogue with China

Washington Examiner · July 17, 2014 7:44 pm

FILE - This April 1, 2014 file photo show the headquarters for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington. The inspector general for the nation's top international-aid agency is probing a once-secret Obama administration program that created a social media network in Cuba, The Associated Press has learned. The review centers on the U.S. Agency for International Development's Twitter-like service in Cuba, which was meant to circumvent Internet restrictions on the island. USAID has been criticized for using the program to conduct overt political messaging and for not fully informing Congress the scope of its work there. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

National Security

Inspector general probing US ‘Cuban Twitter’ plan

JACK GILLUMDESMOND BUTLER · July 17, 2014 7:34 pm

Divided panel backs training, arming Syrian rebels

Divided panel backs training, arming Syrian rebels

Donna Cassata · July 17, 2014 7:10 pm

Eclectic mix of donors in race to succeed Cantor

Eclectic mix of donors in race to succeed Cantor

Frederic J. Frommer · July 17, 2014 6:18 pm

US pilots previously told not to fly over Ukraine

US pilots previously told not to fly over Ukraine

Washington Examiner · July 17, 2014 5:41 pm

Senate Dems, GOP woo female voters for this fall

Charles Babington · July 17, 2014 5:37 pm

Boehner: Return Central American kids faster

Boehner: Return Central American kids faster

Washington Examiner · July 17, 2014 4:27 pm

Dems eye women’s vote with bill on contraception

Charles Babington · July 17, 2014 4:26 pm