In order to reduce shootings, all Border Patrol agents are now required to train in a simulated environment complete with immigrants threatening rocks. Agent Aaron Sims trains on the simulator at the CBP National Training Center in Harper's Ferry, W.V. John Burnett/NPR hide caption
U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus, a former Montana senator, recently became the first American envoy to China to visit all of the country's provinces. "We Americans have an obligation to come to China, to learn more about China," he tells NPR. "Why? Because with each passing day, it's going to be more and more in our future." Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, pictured at a June news conference, said the Pentagon ultimately "will provide for a process that puts as little burden as possible on any soldier who received an improper payment through no fault of his or her own." Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
A man watches a TV news program showing a file image of missile launch conducted by North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 20. The U.S. military said it detected a failed North Korean missile launch that day. The U.S. Strategic Command issued a statement late Wednesday saying it presumed the missile was a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption
A New York Police Department security camera set up along a street in New York City on Aug. 26. Robert Alexander/Getty Images hide caption
Iraqi forces raise a flag after retaking Bartella, a town nine miles outside Mosul, Iraq, on Friday. Iraq's army, backed by U.S. air power, began an offensive this week to retake Mosul, the last city in Iraq controlled by the Islamic State. Some smaller towns and villages were retaken this week, but the Iraqis have not yet reached Mosul. Khalid Mohammed/AP hide caption
The house of Harold Thomas Martin III, a federal government contractor who is accused of stealing classified information, in Glen Burnie, Md. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a recently released Guantanamo Bay prisoner who wrote the best-selling book Guantanamo Diary, in Nouakchott, Mauritania. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
As the operation to retake Mosul continues, Iraqis fleeing ISIS-controlled areas of the city arrived Tuesday at the nearby town of al-Qayyarah, secured by the Iraqi army. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
Retired Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright arrives at U.S. District Court in Washington on Monday. Cartwright pleaded guilty to a single count of making false statements to federal investigators seeking the source of a leak of classified information. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange participates via video link at a news conference in October marking the 10th anniversary of the group. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
Kurdish peshmerga fighters, who are allied with the Iraqi army, stand atop military vehicles on Monday as they advance toward villages about 20 miles east of Mosul.The Iraqi military said an operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State was launched before dawn on Monday. Bram Janssen/AP hide caption
FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric Jackson announces the arrest of three members of a Kansas militia group that planned to bomb an apartment complex in Garden City, Kansas, where Somali families live. He is joined by Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall, left, Friday, Oct. 14. Wichita Eagle/TNS via Getty Images hide caption
Judge Lou Olivera (left) with retired Green Beret Joe Serna outside the Cumberland County Courthouse in Fayetteville, N.C. StoryCorps hide caption