Changing the Guard: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has resigned after less than two years on the job. Appearing with the president and vice president this morning, Hagel stood by while President Obama described him as a friend and heaped him …

World: Overnight US air strikes destroyed small oil refineries in Syria that made about $2 million a day for the ISIS terrorist army. In a blunt speech to the UN Security Council, President Obama called for world cooperation in the …

Iraq Crisis: As American jets and drones continued to strike targets in Iraq yesterday, President Obama said the bombing could continue for months. Shortly before he took off for a family vacation in Martha’s Vineyard the president told reporters, “I don’t …

World: Flooding in Bosnia and Serbia forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in Bosnia and Serbia yesterday. At least 25 people were reported dead and many thousands without power. Some people had to be rescued from the …

Nation: General Motors will pay a $35 million fine for failure to report potentially fatal problems with the ignition switches in 2.6 million cars, according to the Department of Transportation. The switches were prone to turning off while the cars …

Search: Searchers in the Southern Indian Ocean are preparing to launch a robotic submersible to look for wreckage from the missing Malaysia Flight 370. They’re hunting about 1,000 miles of the coast of Perth, Australia, where search ships last heard …

National: Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charges of aiding the enemy when he gave 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks, but he still faces a long time in prison. He was convicted of 19 of 21 charges, …