The massive Hayman wildfire near Denver in 2002 was initially regarded as an accident caused by careless campers, but the case later turned into a hunt for an arsonist. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports on the unlikely suspect and how investigators uncovered minuscule clues in the expansive destruction caused by the blaze.
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Paul Begala and Ari Fleischer debate the differences between the two presidents' national security policies.
On Tuesday, convicted killer John Martorano told the court that his friend and former partner in crime is also a murderer. Boston Globe reporter Shelley Murphy explains why the testimony was significant and what will happen next in the Whitey Bulger trial.
P. Jeffrey Black bumped up against his bosses in the Federal Air Marshal Service, eventually becoming a whistle-blower and testifying to a closed-door congressional hearing before his retirement in 2010.
He had taken a long list of complaints to lawmakers about how the air marshals service was run, ranging from problems keeping marshals on flights to allegations of ineptitude and favoritism by managers. The same year he retired, he appeared in "Please Remove Your Shoes," a documentary critical of the airline security measures travelers endure on every trip.
Then came the audit, which an Internal Revenue Service agent told him about the same day the movie premiered - "almost to the hour," he said.
Miss Utah’s flub takes the spotlight on the RidicuList, where nothing brings America together like a beauty pageant blunder.
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In a new development in an alleged sexual assault case at the U.S. Naval Academy, a Navy official tells CNN that the school's Superintendent, Vice Admiral Michael Miller, has ordered an Article 32 proceeding. Evidence will be presented at a hearing to a military legal officer who will determine if a court-martial is warranted.
A female midshipman claims three football players at the school raped her at an off-campus party in 2012 while she was heavily intoxicated. The woman, who was 20 at the time, chose not to be examined with a rape kit and didn't report the alleged crimes to authorities for eight months because she feared the backlash could turn violent. She was terrified of coming forward because, she says, she saw how other victims were treated.
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Author and Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen says Whitey Bulger wants to preserve his self-serving narrative as a "benevolent wise guy." Bulger is charged in the deaths of 19 people.
Week two of the dramatic trial began with former hitman John Martorano testifying against Bulger, who was his close friend and partner in crime. The mobster told the court it broke his heart when he discovered Bulger was an FBI informant. He described in detail some of the murders he committed, which he says Bulger also plotted and participated in.
Cullen weighs in on Martorano's credibility as a witness and how Bulger reacted in the courtroom on Monday.
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Since President Obama seems to be a reflective soul, he must be reflecting on the irony of his latest predicament: as the man who came into office promising to change everything and who instead seems to have let much of what he promised to fix only get worse.
First, the good news: Slowly but surely, the economy is coming back. And that's no small feat, given where it was in 2009.
Then, everything else: The constitutional scholar, civil libertarian and antiwar activist can't seem to wake up each day without some basic challenge to his political ecology. The confirmed presence of chemical weapons in Syria now makes some sort of escalation there inevitable, just as the war in Afghanistan winds down. (More military support for the rebels? No-fly zone?)
The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald discusses why NSA leaker Edward Snowden took part in an online chat while in hiding on Monday, and why the 29-year-old believes the U.S. government may want to harm him. Greenwald tells Anderson Cooper that Snowden is reacting to accusations made about him and wants to answer questions about what he did and why he did it.
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Information from an aging reputed mobster sparked the latest search for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa in a field in Oakland Township, Michigan. He was last seen on July 30, 1975 outside a Detroit-area restaurant. A ret. Supervisory Special Agent for the FBI, John Anthony, spoke with Anderson Cooper about false leads in the past and what makes the most recent search for Hoffa different.
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