War in the Air: Russia says it was definitely a bomb that took down a chartered airliner over the Sinai desert two weeks ago. Explosive residue was found in the wreckage. Alexander V. Bortnikov, the head of the country’s Federal …

Breaking: A Jordanian policeman opened fire today on foreign trainers, killing two Americans and a South African before he was shot dead himself. Two other Americans and four Jordanians were wounded. The motive for the shooting in a camp outside …

Flight Path: Investigators say “a noise was heard in the last moments of the cockpit voice recording of the Russian Metrojet charter that went down in the Sinai desert. They have yet to analyze the noise and determine what it …

Nation: In one of the most important and controversial decisions of his presidency, Barack Obama announced yesterday that after seven years of consideration he’s rejecting the giant Keystone XL pipeline that was to have transported crude oil from Canada to …

Nation: Tourists are stuck at the Sharm el Sheikh airport in Egypt as flights are cancelled and delayed because of heightened security. President Obama said he thinks there’s a possibility that the Russian airliner that crashed in the Sinai after …

Nation: The popular Fox Lake, Ill. police lieutenant who died on the job in September had been stealing from a youth program he oversaw and staged his death to look like a suicide, investigators announced yesterday. They said that Lt. …

Russian Jet: CBS News reports that a US satellite detected a heat flash when the Russian airliner was going down over the Sinai desert, but Reuters reports according to sources with access to the plane’s black boxes that it was …

The Boys of November: The Mets’ Michael Conforto, who started the season in the minor leagues, hit two home runs last night and would have been the hero if his team hadn’t fallen apart in the top of the 8th …

Permawar: The US is sending what is described as a small number of special operations troops to Syria to advise so-called “moderate” rebel forces. Administration officials say the troops are not supposed to get involved in front line combat, but …