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Did Fire or Bomb Kill EgyptAir Flight?

By Clive Irving

The plane reported a series of escalating alarms and failures before it crashed, which began with smoke in a bathroom.

F2N274 MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM - AUG 07, 2015: EgyptAir Boeing 737 tail livery at Manchester Airport Aug 07 2015.

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Anti-government protesters storm Baghdad's Green Zone in Iraq May 20, 2016.

The Donald Trump of Iraq

By Michael Weiss05.20.16

The EgyptAir plane making the following flight from Paris to Cairo, after flight MS804 disappeared from radar, takes off from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France, May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann - RTSF0H5

The Scandal of EgyptAir 804

By Clive Irving05.20.16

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle flies over northern Iraq early in the morning of Sept. 23, 2014, after conducting airstrikes in Syria. This F-15 was a part of a large coalition strike package that was the first to strike ISIL targets in Syria.

U.S. Warns ISIS Capital: Get Out Now

By Nancy A. Youssef05.20.16

A relative of the victims of the missing EgyptAir flight MS804 reacts after a sympolic funeral in a mosque nearby Cairo airport, in Cairo Egypt May 20, 2016.

EgyptAir Luggage and Body Parts Found

By John Psaropoulos05.20.16

Smooshi the Walrus

Trainers: World-Famous Walrus Abused

By Kate Briquelet05.20.16

Air Sniper

China’s Giant Drone Stalks Enemy Ships

By David Axe05.20.16

Mohamed Mamdouh Assem

All EgyptAir Pilot Wanted Was to Fly

By Katie Zavadski, Dana Kennedy, Michael Weiss05.19.16

People carry the dead body of a migrant on the beach of Siculiana, in Western Sicily, Italy February 19, 2016. Two migrants drowned off the coast of Sicily, Italy's coastguard said on Friday, adding to the thousands who have died in the Mediterranean in the last year as European Union leaders argued in Brussels over how to deal with the crisis. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane - RTX27Q7V

EgyptAir Crash Victims Did Not Die Alone

By Barbie Latza Nadeau05.19.16

An unidentified woman reacts as she waits outside the Egyptair in-flight service building, where relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo are being held, at Cairo International Airport, Egypt May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RTSEZF9

Egypt Prays: Don’t Be Terror Again

By Nancy A. Youssef05.19.16

A picture taken on September 30, 2015 shows an Egypt Air plane on the tarmac of Cairo international Airport. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

EgyptAir Crash Looks More Like Terror

By Clive Irving05.19.16

Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki, a Nigerian schoolgirl rescued after over two years of captivity with Boko Haram militants, looks on while visiting President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria May 19, 2016.

How the Abducted Chibok Girl Was Rescued

By Philip Obaji Jr.05.19.16

Airport staff stand next to an EgyptAir plane on the runway at Cairo Airport, September 5, 2013. The ongoing political crisis in Egypt has hit the once vibrant tourism industry hard, devastating a critical part of the country's economy. And with visitors scared away by civil strife in the aftermath of the ouster of President Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's national airliner, EgyptAir has been hit hard by the tourism slowdown. The airline has taken the brunt of losses in the tourism sector, losing billions of pounds in revenue per year in the two and a half years since the uprising that toppled former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Picture taken September 5, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: TRANSPORT TRAVEL BUSINESS) - RTX13Z1H

EgyptAir Plane ‘Crashed’ With 66 Aboard

Unidentified relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo react as they wait outside the Egyptair in-flight service building where relatives are being held at Cairo International Airport, Egypt May 19, 2016.

Flight From Paris Crashes Into the Sea

By Nico Hines, Dana Kennedy, Barbie Latza Nadeau05.19.16

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The Death of Free Media in Russia

By Anna Nemtsova05.19.16

Model 094 SSBN China missile carrying submarine

China’s Nuclear Subs Are Coming

By David Axe05.19.16

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Why This City Banned Sexy Ads

By Erin Zaleski05.19.16

Bitcoin and Mt Gox

The Biggest Bitcoin Heist in History

By Jake Adelstein, Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky05.19.16

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance to the Sinchang Fish Farm under KPA Unit 810 in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), May 15, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA

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Kim Jong Un Would Eat Trump’s Lunch

By Gordon G. Chang05.18.16

Amanda Knox talks to the press surrounded by family outside her mother's home in Seattle, Washington March 27, 2015. Italy's top court on Friday annulled the conviction of American Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher and, in a surprise verdict, acquitted her of the charge. The Court of Cassation threw out the second guilty verdict to have been passed on Knox, 27, and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the lethal stabbing.

Amanda Knox on a Quest to Clear Her Name

By Barbie Latza Nadeau05.18.16

$Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF, in red) party members of parliament are physically removed from the South African parliament after repeatedly ignoring the instructions of the Speaker, on May 17, 2016, in Cape Town. A brutal fistfight broke out in the South African parliament on May 17 as security guards ejected opposition lawmakers in an ugly fracas that underlined heightened political tensions over Jacob Zuma's presidency.$

The Craziest, Bloodiest Political Brawls

By The Daily Beast05.18.16

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011 file photo, a general view of buildings ravaged by fighting in Sirte, Libya. From east and west, the forces of Libya’s rival powers are each moving on the city of Sirte, vowing to free it from the hold of the Islamic State group. The danger is they could very well fight each other as well. Rather than becoming a unifying cause as the United States and Europe have hoped, the fight against the jihadi group threatens to cause greater fragmentation in Libya, which has been torn apart among rival militias, tribes, governments and parliaments since the 2011 downfall of longtime autocratic ruler Moammar Gadhafi in a NATO-backed rebellion. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

The Hell of ISIS in Libya

By Nico Hines05.18.16

Masked Sunni gunmen pose for a photo during a patrol outside the city of Falluja April 28, 2014. Iraqi soldiers say they have been trapped in and around the western city of Ramadi. They say they have run low on tank shells, lack aerial cover and armoured vehicles, and have been hit by high casualties and desertion rates. In March and April, ISIL seized a dam in Fallujah, flooded farmland on the outskirts of Baghdad in Abu Ghraib, and drained offshoots of the Euphrates river; the Iraqi government evacuated the main prison for Sunni detainees in Abu Ghraib because of the ongoing clashes; and militants, thought to be from ISIL, bombed the country's oil pipeline to Turkey. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTR3MZIX

Is This ISIS’s Suicide Bomber Factory?

By Shane Harris, Nancy A. Youssef05.18.16

Italian gynecologist steals embryos

Did ‘Grandma’s Gynecologist’ Steal Eggs?

By Barbie Latza Nadeau05.18.16

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Putin’s Dirty Game in the U.S. Congress

By Michael Weiss05.18.16

Iraqi security forces and people gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City, Iraq, May 17, 2016.

New ISIS Plan: Tear Iraq Apart

By Nancy A. Youssef05.17.16

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Who Robbed Tony Soprano as He Was Dying?

By Barbie Latza Nadeau05.17.16

Ukraine's Jamala reacts on winning the Eurovision Song Contest final at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, May 14, 2016. TT News Agency/Maja Suslin/via REUTERS ?ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN. - RTSEBM2

Russia Cries Conspiracy Over Eurovision

By Michael Weiss05.17.16