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A Secret Service officer shot an armed man near White House. He approached the White House complex Friday afternoon with a weapon in plain sight and refused to drop it, law enforcement officials said – in an incident that put the White House temporarily on lockdown. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The lockdown has since been lifted, and officials say everyone at the White House is "safe and accounted for." President Obama was out playing golf at the time of the incident -- but Vice President Biden was in the complex, and secured, his office said. While an official stressed the suspect did not access the White House complex itself, the shooting happened within view of sightseers outside the front of the building. Late Friday, a U.S. law enforcement official told Associated Press that authorities had identified the gunman as Jesse Oliveri of Ashland, Pennsylvania. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized t...

An amazing new Mars image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows clouds, craters, ice caps and other features on the Red Planet. Hubble took the photo on May 12, when Mars was just 50 million miles (80 million kilometers) from Earth. That's quite close in the cosmic scheme of things; Mars is nearly at "opposition" — when the planet and the sun are on exact opposite sides of Earth from each other — which will come on May 22. Opposition "marks the planet's closest approach to Earth, so that Mars appears bigger and brighter in the sky than usual," European Space Agency officials wrote today (May 19) in a description of the newly released photo. (The Hubble mission is run jointly by NASA and ESA). "This event allows astronomers using telescopes in space and on the ground to see more details on the Martian surface." [The 7 Biggest Mysteries of Mars] The dates of closest approach and opposition don't mesh exactly. The close...

Salah Abdeslam, the last known survivor of the team that carried out last November's Paris attacks, refused to talk during questioning Friday by anti-terror judges, took the session end abruptly. Frank Berton, lawyer of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, addresses the media as he arrives at the Paris courthouse, on Friday. Christophe Ena/AP Salah Abdeslam's lawyer, Frank Berton said his client invoked his right to silence. Abdeslam, 26, had said last month he wanted to explain all. Berton told reporters that Abdeslam was disturbed by the 24-hour video surveillance in his maximum-security cell, and called the practice illegal. "He can't tolerate being watched on video 24 hours a day," Berton said. "Psychologically that makes things difficult." Friday was the first time Abdeslam was questioned since his extradition from Belgium last month. At that point, Berton said his client wanted to talk to investigators and explain his pat...

A tremendous number of Republican voters say their party’s leaders should stand behind Donald J. Trump,  according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. And as Mr. Trump faces deep skepticism with general election voters and some Republican holdouts, the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, is grappling with Senator Bernie Sanders and how to win over his impassioned supporters. Both parties thus approach their July nominating conventions with significant unease and hurdles to overcome. Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton are widely disliked by voters, and both parties will need to repair schisms that might spell doom in an ordinary election year. But this, of course, is no ordinary year. Mr. Trump’s and Mrs. Clinton’s soaring levels of unpopularity are extraordinary for the likely nominees of the two major parties. Nearly two-thirds of voters, for example, say that Mr. Trump is not honest and trustworthy. Just as many say the same of Mrs. Clinton. Strong majorities...

A second schoolgirl that was seized in the Nigerian town of Chibok has been found, the army says. But a spokesman for the Chibok girls' parents has cast doubt on the claims, saying that the girl's name is not on the families' list of those missing. An army spokesman said Serah Luka was among a group of 97 women and children rescued by troops in the north-east. Islamist militant group Boko Haram has abducted thousands of other girls in recent years, rights groups estimate. This comes two days after the rescue of the first Chibok girl, Amina Ali Nkeki. The army has previously given misleading statements about the rescue of the Chibok girls - in its initial statement after Ms Nkeki was found, it used a wrong name. In all, 218 girls remain missing after their abduction by the Boko Haram Islamist group from Chibok secondary school in north-eastern Nigeria in 2014. Ms Nkeki told a Chibok community leader that six of the kidnapped girls had died, but...

The former Republican Sen. Bob Bennet used his last days to apologize to Muslims for the rise of Donald Trump as his party’s presidential nominee, confirmed by the family members to the Daily Beast. The wife and son of former Sen. Bob Bennett reportedly said the Utah Republican was disgusted by Donald Trump having become the party’s presidential front-runner based on his stances on Muslim and other immigration. (Associated Press) more > In a report posted Wednesday evening, the wife and son of former Sen. Bob Bennett said the Utah Republican was disgusted by Mr. Trump having become the party’s presidential front-runner based on his stances on Muslim and other immigration. “In the last days of his life this was an issue that was pressing in his mind… disgust for Donald Trump’s xenophobia,” son Jim Bennett told the Daily Beast. “At the end of his life he was preoccupied with getting things done that he had felt was left undone.” The article by Tim Mak begins with a...

EgyptAir Flight 804 vanished from radar on Paris to Cairo route with 66 people aboard. The plane was flying at 37,000 feet when it lost contact overnight above the Mediterranean Sea, the airline tweeted. French President Francois Hollande said he was told the flight crashed, but Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sharif Fathi said he preferred to classify the flight as missing. "We do not deny there is a possibility of terrorism or deny the possibility of technical fault," Fathi said at a Cairo news conference. "I will continue to use the term missing plane until we find any debris." Later at the same news conference, he indicated that while there were "no known security issues" with passengers aboard the plane, the probability of terrorism downing it is higher than the likelihood of a mechanical cause. "I don't want to go to speculation. I don't want to go to assumptions like others. But if you analyze this situation prop...

The schoolgirl rescued  after being taken captive by Boko Haram militants for two years will meet President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday amid hopes she can help shed light on the whereabouts of more than 200 other missing girls. Rescued Chibok schoolgirl Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki, her husband and baby are attended to in a hospital in Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria in this handout received May 19, 2016. Nigeria Military/Handout via The girl, named by activists as Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki, was accompanied by her mother, Binta, and the provincial governor as she was driven in a military convoy to the airport in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's war-scarred northeast. Soldiers working with a civilian vigilante group rescued Amina on Tuesday near Damboa, south of Maiduguri. Officials confirmed she was one of 219 girls abducted from the government school in Chibok in April 2014. She was found with her four-month-old baby, while a ...

The Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump resurrected accusations of rape against former president Bill Clinton in an hour interview with Fox News. Sean Hannity asked Donald Trump about his feelings on a recent New York Times article that dug into the candidate’s troubled history with women. Photograph: Fox News Trump’s remarks came in response to a question from Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, who asked Trump about his feelings on a recent New York Times article that dug into the candidate’s troubled history with women, which Trump called a “con job” that made him “furious”. “Are they going to interview Juanita Broaddrick?” Hannity asked Trump, in apparent defense of the candidate. “Are they going to interview Paula Jones? Are they going to interview Kathleen Willey? In one case, it’s about exposure. In another case, it’s about groping and fondling and touching against a woman’s will.” “And rape,” Trump responded. “And rape,” Hannity followed up. “A...