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  • Palestinian TV Station’s Saga Holds Lessons for Kerry

    Updated 1 hour ago

    Muamar Orabi can tell Secretary of State John Kerry how hard it is to make progress in the Holy Land. The top U.S. diplomat has been pushing since February to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Orabi is just trying to broadcast news reports in the Palestinian territories.

  • Obama Says U.S. Surveillance Programs Strike Privacy Balance

    Updated 2 hours, 22 minutes ago

    President Barack Obama said government surveillance programs that sweep telephone numbers and Internet data have saved lives, as a controversy over the monitoring followed him on a trip overseas.

  • U.S. Set for Taliban Talks as Afghan Military Takes Lead

    The U.S. and the Taliban, deadly foes through 12 years of war in Afghanistan, executed a bit of choreographed diplomacy that sets the stage for initial peace negotiations to begin within days.

  • Obama in Berlin Shows Merkel’s Chancellorship Forged in Crisis

    It was 95 degrees Fahrenheit outside the Los Cabos conference center as President Barack Obama and fellow Group of 20 leaders pressed Chancellor Angela Merkel to take the heat out of the crisis-wracked euro area.

  • Obama Said to Call for Russia to Join U.S. in Arms Cuts

    President Barack Obama plans to press for further cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals in a speech in Berlin today, according to an administration official.

  • Pentagon Moving Toward Women in Combat Weighs Standards

    Updated 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

    U.S. military services offered glimpses yesterday of how they will deliver on the Pentagon’s pledge to let women apply for front-line combat positions, and of the challenges in devising new, gender-neutral standards for warriors.

  • Jailer of Taliban Deploys to Chicago School to Foil Gangs

    Updated 1 hour, 52 minutes ago

    Between scouting banquet halls for eighth-grade graduation and disciplining a boy who bit a classmate, Principal Aaron Rucker spotted five gang members near William H. Ryder Elementary and pulled his silver Range Rover to the curb.

  • Indiana Lets County Seek $1.3 Billion Fertilizer Deal

    Updated 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

    Governor Mike Pence won’t block Indiana’s Posey County from selling $1.3 billion in bonds to finance a fertilizer plant backed by a Pakistani company near the Illinois state line.

  • FBI Offers Reward for Information on 2008 New York Attack

    The FBI is offering $65,000 for information leading to the people responsible for a 2008 predawn attack on a military recruiting center in New York’s Times Square that may be connected to two unsolved bombings at consulates in the city.

  • Afghans Take Lead Security Role as Karzai Outlines Peace Bid

    Afghan forces are taking the lead role in security nationwide, President Hamid Karzai said at a ceremony in Kabul to mark the end of a transition as the U.S.- led international coalition winds down its 12-year war.

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