Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks from the Senate chamber after opening a special session to extend surveillance programs in Washington on Sunday. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption
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Taser International is now selling police departments the technology to store videos from body cameras. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
As Police Body Cameras Increase, What About All That Video?
President Obama with Cuban President Raul Castro during their historic meeting in April at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Sgt. Cassie McDole sits in an AAV. Arezou Rezvani/NPR hide caption
On The California Shore, Sizing Up Female Marines' Combat Readiness
Thursday
A security fence surrounds the main part of the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground, a testing laboratory in the Utah desert. The Army says it mistakenly shipped live anthrax from Dugway to several labs in the U.S. and Korea. George Frey/Getty Images hide caption
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A member of Iraqi government forces in position against the so-called Islamic State. Haidar Hamdani/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington earlier this month. In an interview on CNN Sunday, Carter complained that Iraqi forces lacked "the will to fight" the self-declared Islamic State. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
A carry team at Dover Air Force Base trains on the proper protocol for a dignified transfer. Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption
At Dover Air Force Base, Bringing Home The Fallen With Grief And Joy
Saturday
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the Boy Scouts of America's annual meeting in 2014. "There's no certainty about any of this," he says of the situation in Iraq. Mark Zaleski/AP hide caption