Two men attacked another man and killed him in a machete attack near a military barracks in southeast London. The British government is the treating the incident as terrorism. The two men, who first gloated about the attack, were shot by officers in a busy London street. The man killed is believed to be a British solider.
IRS official Lois Lerner insisted at a hearing on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong, and invoked her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. "I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations. I know some people will assume that I have done something wrong. I have not," she said before the House Oversight Committee. Lerner is the head of the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt groups that targeted conservative groups.
A federal appeals court-martial ruled on Tueday that the U.S. government properly classified top secret information more than 50 images of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them, Reuters reported. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a request for the images by Judicial Watch, a conservative nonprofit watchdog group.
FBI agents shot and killed 26-year-old Chechen Ibragim Todashev in Orlando Florida overnight. Todashev, reportedly, knew, and "hung out" with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the past.While Todashev wa not involved in the bombings, the FBI has been following him ever since, and routinely questioned him at an apartment complex near Universal Studios in central Florida.
