Two U.S. police officers involved in the shooting death of a 12-year-old black boy who was holding a toy gun should face criminal charges, a judge ruled Thursday.

The Cleveland Municipal Court judge cautioned, however, that his opinion is "advisory in nature" and it is ultimately up to the "discretion of the city's prosecuting authority" to file charges, the local ABC News station reported.

Hundreds of U.S. police officers Wednesday expanded across state lines an exhaustive search for two "extremely dangerous" killers who escaped from one of New York's toughest jails five days ago.

The public was warned that Richard Matt, 49, and David Sweat, 35, could kill again after using power tools to cut through walls at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora on Saturday.

An emerging deal between Iran and world powers won't prevent the Islamic republic from reaching nuclear weapon capacity, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, noting Arab states shared his concern.

"I know I’m often portrayed as the nuclear party pooper, and that would be okay if I was the only voice against the impending deal with Iran," he said at a security conference at Herzliya near Tel Aviv.

Barack Obama's admission that he has an incomplete strategy to combat the Islamic State group is politically toxic, but history shows many of his predecessors also decided that "muddling through" a crisis was the least-worst option.

They were seven small words that did not help the 44th president one little bit after a G7 meeting in the clean air of the Bavarian Alps: "We don't yet have a complete strategy."

The agency in charge of U.S. transportation security came under renewed fire Tuesday as a report revealed that American airports had hired dozens of people with terror links.

The Transportation Security Agency is already reeling after a recent Department of Homeland Security report found that investigators could sneak fake bombs and weaponry through security with a 95 percent success rate.

American diplomats will not meet with a visiting delegation from the Muslim Brotherhood, designated as a terrorist organization by the regime of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

But State Department spokesman Jeffrey Rathke said America would still engage with the Brotherhood, whose members are visiting Washington on a private trip.

The White House press room was briefly evacuated and a Secret Service sniffer dog deployed Tuesday delaying a scheduled briefing.

Journalists, including an AFP reporter, were escorted out as a security sweep was performed.

An American man held for nearly three years as a teenager without trial at a notorious New York prison who later inspired efforts to reform the complex has committed suicide, officials said Monday.

Kalief Browder died at his home in the Bronx on Saturday. His body was discovered by his family. He was 22.

The U.S. Army's official website was hacked Monday with messages denouncing Washington's training of rebel fighters inside Syria, but no data was stolen, officials said.

As a result of the hacking, the Army decided to temporarily shut down the website, which is designed for the general public with basic information and does not contain classified or personal data, officials said.

An aviation technician caught in an FBI sting pleaded guilty Monday to plotting to attack a Kansas airport with a car bomb, U.S. officials said. 

"Terry Loewen utilized his privileged airport access to attempt a terrorist attack in Wichita,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin said in a statement.