Ukraine: A team of international investigators finally reached the wreckage of Malaysia Flight 17 today, two weeks after it was brought down by a missile. They are expected to focus first on finding remains of the dead and collecting their …

Nigeria: Boko Haram militants invaded a regional state capital Monday killing at least 310 people, Nigerian authorities say. Some of the victims were reported to have been burned alive in buildings where they hid. The village of Gamboru Ngala is …

Sochi: The Olympics opened last night with pageantry on a grand scale to portray the history of Mother Russia. Islands of Russian scenery and history floated on cables over the stadium as choruses sang and appeared in native costume. A …

The Supremes: The court today struck down a key part of The Voting Rights Act that designates which parts of the country must have changes in voting laws approved by the federal government. The 5-4 ruling held that “things have …

 Uncle Snoop: The federal government for the last six years has secretly collected information from nine major Internet services in the hunt for national security threats, the government admitted. This comes in addition to the revelation that the government swept …

National: In a White House shakeup UN Ambassador Susan Rice is replacing Tom Donilon as national security advisor. It’s bound to irritate Republicans who blocked Rice from becoming Secretary of State. Organizers of several Tea Party and conservative groups testified …

National: Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 89, of New Jersey died last night of viral pneumonia. He was the oldest senator and its last WWII veteran. Republican Gov. Chris Christie must appoint a replacement until a special election. Lautenberg’s death leaves …

London Attack: Two men shouting “God is Great” hacked to death a British soldier several hundred feet from the Royal Artillery barracks in a bizarre incident in London yesterday. Witnesses caught the two on video making no effort to get …

Day of the Dead: One elderly man is dead after a tornado ripped through a mobile home park in Shawnee, OK. A large storm front swept through yesterday bringing at least one tornado a half-mile wide. More tornadoes could hit …

National: The recently fired head of the IRS was personally audited by an angry Congressional committee over the agency’s special attention to conservative political groups. But Steven Miller refused to say the audits of groups applying for non-profit status were …