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A slide that shows images of suspected drug lord Enrique Plancarte, when he was alive and when he was dead, points out similarities in facial features, during a press conference in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Mexican officials said Tuesday that Plancarte, one of the two remaining top leaders of the Knights Templar drug cartel, was killed after he refused to surrender and opened fire on marines. A top federal police official, said Plancarte died Monday after marines spotted him walking down a street in the central state of Queretaro. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico confirms Knights Templar cartel leader dead

Olga Rodriguez · April 1, 2014 10:12 pm

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks to members of a travel press pool April 1, 2014 en route Honolulu, Hawaii. The U.S. is likely to move a warship into the Black Sea and send a small team of soldiers to Europe as part of NATO's effort to bolster allies in Eastern Europe who are worried about Russia's military annexation of Crimea. That from a senior defense official. Hagel says this country has "to be prepared to deal with any contingency and all options." (AP Photo/Alex Wong, Pool)

National Security

US may move warship into Black Sea

Lolita Baldor · April 1, 2014 9:58 pm

FILE - In this April 29, 2013, file photo, Migrants ride on top of a northern bound train toward the US-Mexico border in Juchitan, southern Mexico. Prosecutors in southern Mexico have filed a criminal complaint, Tuesday April, 2014, that alleges railway companies or their employees were complicit in crimes against migrants who ride their trains. The attorney general of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz says he filed a complaint with federal prosecutors against the Ferrosur Mexican rail line and a subsidiary of the U.S. line Kansas City Southern. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo,File)

Mexican state blames railways in migrant crimes

Washington Examiner · April 1, 2014 9:27 pm

A glance at military spending around the world

A glance at military spending around the world

The Associated Press · April 1, 2014 9:18 pm

An injured Kenyan is wheeled into Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday March 31, 2014, after an explosion in downtown Nairobi killed at least five people. The National Disaster Operation Center said on Twitter that explosions had occurred Monday evening in a neighborhood known for its large Somali population, and the agency said five people were killed and several injured without saying what caused the blasts. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

Radical Muslim leader shot dead in Kenya

JASON STRAZIUSOTOM ODULA · April 1, 2014 9:12 pm

Anne Pollard, who was arrested in 1985 as an accomplice to her then-husband Jonathan Pollard, speaks in an interview to The Associated Press in Modiin, near Jerusalem, Israel, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The White House says President Barack Obama has not made a decision on whether to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. People familiar with Mideast peace talks say the United States is talking to Israel about releasing Pollard early from his life sentence as an incentive to the Israelis to keep the troubled negotiations with the Palestinians afloat. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

AP Interview: Pollard’s ex-wife urges his release

Jeffrey Schaeffer · April 1, 2014 9:11 pm

Crews assess JetBlue plane after emergency landing

Crews assess JetBlue plane after emergency landing

David McFadden · April 1, 2014 7:44 pm

UKRAINE MILITARY

UKRAINE MILITARY

fduckettf.duckett · April 1, 2014 7:21 pm

Kerry: Premature to write off Mideast peace talks

Kerry: Premature to write off Mideast peace talks

Matthew Lee · April 1, 2014 7:14 pm

Venezuela issues ID cards to curtail food hoarding

Hannah Dreier · April 1, 2014 7:09 pm

Troops blow up bombers in north Nigeria, 21 dead

Troops blow up bombers in north Nigeria, 21 dead

Haruna Umar · April 1, 2014 6:59 pm

Jailed Brotherhood leader scoffs at Egypt courts

SARAH EL DEEB · April 1, 2014 6:53 pm