David Stern will step down as the commissioner of the NBA on February 1, and succeeded by Adam Silver, leaving behind a storied 30-year career who took the league to unprecedented international and monetary success. Before his arrival in 1984, Stern dealt with a league known for rampant drug use by its players, but also on the cusp of great success, highlighted by the meteoric rise of legends Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
The terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, was "likely preventable" based on known security shortfalls and prior warnings that the security situation there was deteriorating, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a report released on Wednesday,
The Air Force said that 34 nuclear missile launch officers have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification in "what is believed to be the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force."
The U.S. military obtained new video of the American prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl who was seized in Afghanistan in June, 2009, CNN reported. Bergdahl, a native of Wood Valley Idaho, is believed to be held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Pakistan. He has spent almost five years in captivity, and "the so-called proof-of-life video, the first of him in nearly three years, has a reference to December 14, 2013."
