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A Kenyan intelligence official says that the "high-value terrorist leader" whose residence was targeted in a Navy SEAL raid was the senior al-Shabab leader Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, alias Ikrima. Ikrima is a Kenyan of Somali descent who boasts connections to both al-Shabab in Somalia and to a Kenyan jihadist group called al-Hijra.

Also: rodeo clown banned after making Obama insult; Israel shoots down a rocket headed for Eilat; a wildfire scorches more than 90,000 acres in Idaho; a baseball fan falls to his death in Atlanta; and Detroit changes billboards advertising the wrong election date.

Also: Kuwait will mediate in Qatar's rift with Arab nations; comedian Bill Cosby's sex assault trial opens; and Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus is over, although CDC travel warnings remain.

Also: Divers locate the second AirAsia black box but must retrieve it; Boko Haram may have used a Nigerian child suicide bomber; and two Tuskegee Airmen and lifelong friends die on the same day.

Hear and download songs from Parquet Courts, Waxahatchee, Courtney Barnett, San Fermin and Hanni El Khatib.

President Obama called the unnamed man "one of the most important intelligence agents that the United States has ever had in Cuba." The agent spent nearly two decades in a Cuban prison.

Also: Egypt's President Morsi calls for staged parliamentary elections; police in India failed to initially search for three little sisters, discovered raped and murdered; the former mayor of notorious Bell, Calif., claims he's uneducated; and Forbes ranks Detroit as the most miserable U.S. city.

The most popular dog names of 2018 say a lot about our world and what we're watching. Increasingly, dogs are getting human names, but is that really a surprise since they're part of the family?

Almost 85% of TV ad spending in the presidential race has been focused on six key states — Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.

Twenty-two months after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, dissension and fatigue are evident among Kyiv's most senior officials. The war has reached a stalemate.