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No subject is more hotly debated than the extreme measures that our government has taken after 9/11 in the name of national security. Torture, extraordinary rendition, drone assassinations, secret detention centers (or "black sites"), massive surveillance of citizens. But while the press occasionally exposes the dark side of the war on terror, and congressional investigators sometimes raise alarms about the abuses committed by US intelligence agencies and armed forces, no high US official has been prosecuted for these violations.

Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with severe wounds from chemical war. They are not the victims of ruthless enemy warfare, but of their own military commanders. These soldiers, afflicted with rare cancers and respiratory diseases, were sickened from the smoke and ash swirling out of the "burn pits" where military contractors incinerated mountains of trash, including old stockpiles of mustard and sarin gas, medical waste, and other toxic material.

"Congolese Politician Is Convicted of War Crimes" is from March 21, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"As Aid Reaches Syrians, U.N. Chief Says Withholding Food Is a War Crime" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and Nick Cumming Bruce and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Hissène Habré, Ex-President of Chad, Convicted of War Crimes" is from the May 30, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Dionne Searcy and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Congolese Politician, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Sentenced to 18 Years for War Crimes" is from the June 21, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Radovan Karadzic, Ex-Bosnian Serb Leader, Is Convicted of Genocide and War Crimes" is from the March 24, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Serbian Nationalist Acquitted of War Crimes by Hague Tribunal" is from the March 31, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Case Looms for Possible U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan" is from the November 14, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and Marlise Simons and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Aleppo Is a 'Slaughterhouse,' Says U.N. Official Seeking War Crimes Inquiry" is from the October 21, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Nick Cumming Bruce and Anne Barnard and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

" French Journalist Is Detained at U.N. War Crimes Tribunal" is from the March 27, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Caroline Miller.

New Deal Law and Order follows President Franklin Roosevelt, Attorney General Homer Cummings, and their war on crime coalition, which overcame the institutional and political challenges to the legitimacy of national law enforcement. Promises of law and order helped to manage tensions among key Democratic Party factions—organized labor, Black Americans, and white Southerners. Their anticrime program, featuring a strengthened criminal code, an empowered FBI, and the first federal war on marijuana, was essential to the expansion of national authority previously stymied on constitutional grounds.

For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy - a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean. Crammed into open boats and armed with ancient AK-47s, they range up to a thousand miles from home shores in Somalia. No one knows how many die at sea. But occasionally they hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews to be ransomed for millions of dollars.

Imagine you are nine years old. Your best friend’s father is arrested, half your classmates disappear from school, and someone burns down the house across the road. Imagine you have to cross a snow-covered mountain range at night in order to escape the soldiers who are trying to kill you. How would you deal with these memories once you are an adult? Jones, a relief worker and child psychiatrist, interviewed over 40 Serb and Muslim children who came of age during the Bosnian War and now returns, 20 years after the war began, to discover the adults they have become.

Black Market Billions blows the lid off the world's fastest-growing illicit industry: organized retail crime. Hitha Prabhakar reveals how criminals with ties to terrorist groups around the world are committing huge product thefts, and using the profits to fund terrorist acts. Prabhakar connects the dots and follows the money - from consumers dying for a deal to terrorist cells eager to do the killing.

Landing in Vancouver on a flight from Hong Kong on December 2018, Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested by Canadian authorities with an American extradition warrant. The US Department of Justice accused Meng of fraud and bypassing sanctions against Iran. Nine days later, in an act...

In this explosive, controversial, and profoundly alarming insider’s report, Senator Bob Graham reveals faults in America’s national security network severe enough to raise fundamental questions about the competence and honesty of public officials in the CIA, the FBI, and the White House. For...