New Orleans, Louisiana - An Abita Springs man who pleaded guilty last year to operating a worldwide child pornography network that was the largest ever discovered in the history of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was sentenced Thursday to 21 years in federal prison for operating a child exploitation enterprise. The sentencing follows an investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and multiple U.S. Attorneys across the country.

Washington, DC - On February 18, on the margins of the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), the Department of State will host – in conjunction with the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security - a Ministerial-level event focused on improving the use and sharing of information to counter the threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs).

Washington, DC - "It turns out that the White House does have a strategy for fighting Islamic terrorism-just ignore the threat," according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens.

Washington, DC - Droughts in the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains during the last half of this century could be drier and longer than drought conditions seen in those regions in the last 1,000 years, according to a new NASA study.

New York, New York - An Atlanta-based attorney was arrested Wednesday on criminal charges for wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the sale of phony insurance bonds for the World Trade Center PATH transportation hub construction.

Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry will host an event to welcome the inaugural class of Veterans Innovation Partnership (VIP) fellows at 9:00 a.m. on February 13, 2015, in the Department of State’s Benjamin Franklin Room.