Marc Lacey The New York Times

The US Secret Service said on Thursday that it was looking into a photograph posted on the Internet that showed a group of young Arizona men posing in the desert with guns while holding up what appeared to be a bullet-riddled image of President Obama's face.

Photographs of Representative Gabrielle Giffords were posted on her Facebook page Sunday, the first clear public images of her since she began rehabilitation from a bullet wound to the brain in January. A spokesman said Ms. Giffords and her husband, the astronaut Mark E. Kelly, released the photographs in an effort to prevent her from being hounded...

When a suicide bomber entered an American military barracks in Afghanistan in February, it was not American soldiers but Afghan stray dogs that confronted him. Target and two other dogs snarled, barked and snapped at the man, who detonated his bomb at the entrance to the facility but did not kill anyone. The dogs were from the Dand Aw Patan distric...

The US Secret Service said on Thursday that it was looking into a photograph posted on the Internet that showed a group of young Arizona men posing in the desert with guns while holding up what appeared to be a bullet-riddled image of President Obama's face.

Photographs of Representative Gabrielle Giffords were posted on her Facebook page Sunday, the first clear public images of her since she began rehabilitation from a bullet wound to the brain in January. A spokesman said Ms. Giffords and her husband, the astronaut Mark E. Kelly, released the photographs in an effort to prevent her from being hounded...

When a suicide bomber entered an American military barracks in Afghanistan in February, it was not American soldiers but Afghan stray dogs that confronted him. Target and two other dogs snarled, barked and snapped at the man, who detonated his bomb at the entrance to the facility but did not kill anyone. The dogs were from the Dand Aw Patan distric...