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FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, from left, speaks as Afghan presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Abdullah Abdullah listen during a joint press conference in Kabul. Afghanistan's two presidential candidates were set to a sign a power-sharing deal on national TV on Sunday, three months after a disputed runoff that threatened to plunge the country into turmoil and complicate the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

US applauds Afghan power-sharing agreement

Washington Examiner · September 21, 2014 12:43 pm

Uniformed Secret Service officers walk along the lawn on the North side of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The Secret Service is coming under renewed scrutiny after a man scaled the White House fence and made it all the way through the front door before he was apprehended. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Secret Service boosts security outside White House

Josh Lederman · September 21, 2014 2:58 am

Secret Service chief steps up security outside White House after fence-jumper made it inside

Secret Service chief steps up security outside White House after fence-jumper made it inside

Washington Examiner · September 20, 2014 10:21 pm

FILE - This March 23, 2008, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office shows Douglas McAuthur McCain. McCain, 33, of suburban Minneapolis, was killed this year in Syria fighting with the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office, File)

National Security

A look at American jihadis: Why do they fight?

Deb Riechmann · September 20, 2014 9:27 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2014 file photo, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon participates in a news conference, at United Nations headquarters. More than 120 world leaders convene Tuesday, Sept. 23, for U.N. summit aimed at galvanizing political will for a new global climate treaty by the end of 2015. Environmentalists will take to the streets Sunday, Sept. 20, in what is being billed as the largest march ever on global warming. Celebrities, CEOs and climatologists will appear at a string of events as part of New York Climate Week. DiCaprio has been tapped to talk about the cause of rising seas.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Energy and Environment

Pomp, little action expected at UN climate summit

Dina Cappiello · September 20, 2014 4:43 pm

5 things to know about UN Climate Summit

Energy and Environment

5 things to know about UN Climate Summit

Dina Cappiello · September 20, 2014 4:36 pm

President Barack Obama, center, with Sec. of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, and Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, right, Commander of the US Central Command (CentCom), before the start of a briefing at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Obama was being updated on the ongoing military campaigns in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Potential push for Obama to expand military effort

Julie Pace · September 20, 2014 3:48 pm

In this Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 photo, Mufid Elfgeeh is taken out of Federal Court in Rochester, N.Y. Elfgeeh is accused of plotting to kill members of the U.S. military and others pleaded not guilty Thursday to new federal charges that he tried to aid the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. With foreign fighters from dozens of nations pouring into the Middle East to join the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations, U.S. officials are putting new energy into trying to understand what radicalizes people far removed from the fight and into prodding countries around the world to do a better job of keeping them from joining up. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Carlos Ortiz) MAGS OUT; NO SALES

National Security

Tracing shift from everyday American to jihadis

NANCY BENACDEB RIECHMANN · September 20, 2014 12:38 pm

CIA stops spying on friendly nations in W. Europe

Ken Dilanian · September 20, 2014 7:52 am

A Secret Service police officer holds a weapon as he stands near an entrance to the White House complex during an evacuation minutes after President Barack Obama departed Washington for Camp David aboard Marine One on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. A Secret Service agent at the scene says someone jumped the fence surrounding the White House. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Fence-jumper makes it into the White House

Josh Lederman · September 20, 2014 5:24 am

FILE - National Security Adviser Susan Rice listens to reporters questions during a briefing on President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to to Europe and Saudi Arabia, in this March 21, 2014 file photo taken in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama will call on fellow world leaders next week to back a United Nations resolution calling on nations to stem the flow of foreign fighters joining terrorist organizations like the Islamic State, as the United States seeks to build legitimacy for its military campaign in Iraq and Syria, the White House said Friday Sept. 19, 2014. Rice, said she expects unanimous approval in the U.N. Security Council. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Foreign fighters, Ebola top Obama’s UN agenda

Josh Lederman · September 20, 2014 4:55 am

FILE -- In this April 21, 2010 file photo James Clapper is seen in McLean, Va., just outside of Washington. Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said during a public event Thursday Sept. 18, 2014 that the U.S. is assuming more risk because it has stopped spying on "specific targets," though he didn't spell out details. The CIA has curbed spying on friendly governments in Western Europe in response to the furor over a German caught selling secrets to the United States and the Edward Snowden revelations of classified information held by the National Security Agency, according to current and former U.S. officials. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

AP Exclusive: CIA halts spying in Europe

Ken Dilanian · September 20, 2014 4:08 am