An apologetic Pfc. Manning had faced a possible life term for the secrets he disclosed.

The vice president’s son Beau Biden, who is the Delaware attorney general, expects to return home Thursday from a Texas cancer center.

Shocking images emerged from the purported attack, showing pale, lifeless bodies of children lined up on floors of makeshift hospitals and others with oxygen masks on their faces as they were attended to by paramedics.

The leak, the fifth since last year involving tanks of the same design, raises concerns that it could be the beginning a new disaster – contaminated water leaking from storage tanks one after another.