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WASHINGTON – Executions and new death sentences dropped to their lowest numbers in decades in 2014, an anti-death penalty group said in a new report. The Death Penalty Information Center,…
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U.S., Cuba patch torn relations in historic accord
Protesters outside of Cafe Versailles on Calle Ocho in Miami decry the exchange of convicted Cuban spies for USAID subcontractor Alan Gross, who has been held by the Cuban government…
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Mixed emotions vex ‘Pedro Pan’ generation after Cuba move
A bus filled with excited Cubans passes through the Vedado section of Havana, Cuba. After a half-century of Cold War acrimony, the United States and Cuba moved on Wednesday to…
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Aussie leader: System failed to track siege gunman
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his wife, Margie, pay their respects to the victims of the siege in Martin Place in Sydney’s central business district Tuesday,Steve Christo/Associated Press Man…
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Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill into law
President Barack Obama leaves Marine One helicopter after returning to the White House from a trip to New Jersey to speak to members of the military at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.Pablo…
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WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration needed an exemption from new Obama administration rules restricting racial profiling by the government so the TSA could target travelers for extra scrutiny based…
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TOKYO — North Korea has asked the U.N. Security Council to investigate the CIA’s “brutal medieval” treatment of terrorism suspects just as the council agreed to consider a resolution calling…
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Families of Newtown victims sue rifle manufacturer
Connecticutt State Police Detective Detective Barbara J. Mattson holds a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting.…
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Police say Sydney cafe hostage situation over
A injured hostage is wheeled to an ambulance after shots were fired during a cafe siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia on Tuesday,.ROB GRIFFITH/Associated…
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Crunch time for health-insurance sign-ups
President Barack Obama’s health-insurance expansion faces the biggest test of its second year on Monday, the deadline to sign up for coverage that starts Jan. 1. The deadline will indicate…
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PENNSBURG, Pa. – A man suspected of going to three houses in the Philadelphia suburbs and fatally shooting six people, including his ex-wife and her teenage niece, was at large,…
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3 dead in Sydney cafe siege; 15 hostages alive
Bomb-disposal robot sent in; no explosives found
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The Department of Defense says two servicemen died from wounds suffered during an attack in Afghanistan. Officials said Sunday that U.S. Army Spc. Wyatt J. Martin of Mesa, Arizona, and…
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Rich-poor divide among nations rankles UN talks
Global pact on climate change appears iffy
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Legal advice guided brutal interrogations
ACLU slams decision not to pursue criminal charges
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MUBI, Nigeria – With a military escort instead of the usual pomp, the Emir of Mubi was reinstalled Friday in his palace, where until recently flew the black-and-white flag of…
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WASHINGTON – When CIA interrogators were torturing accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at a secret prison in Poland in March 2003, a top CIA analyst asked them to…
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Japanese reluctantly crawl to the polls
One-party political system leave many apathetic