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Gun-rights activists rally at Alamo

SAN ANTONIO – Several hundred gun-rights activists armed with rifles and shotguns rallied outside of the Alamo on Saturday in a demonstration that broke a longstanding tradition of not stagi...

Death penalty provision revisited

Ga. may require defendants to prove disability

Growing backlash to government surveillance

SAN JOSE, Calif. – From Silicon Valley to the South Pacific, counterattacks to revelations of widespread National Security Agency surveillance are taking shape, from a surge of new encrypted...

Syria war plays out on Web

People show videos through social media

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood gets put on stand

CAIRO – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood faces a wave of trials unlike any it has seen in its history, threatening to put a large number of its senior leaders behind bars for years, even life, as ...

World Briefs

Australian authorities fear worsening wildfires SYDNEY – Firefighters battling some of the most destructive wildfires to ever strike Australia’s most populous state were bracing S...

Some insurgent Republicans see weaker fundraising

WASHINGTON – Campaign donations to some of the House’s most prominent Tea Party insurgents tumbled in recent months, and several of the chamber’s most conservative new members struggled to m...

Two killers registered as felons after their escape

ORLANDO, Fla. – Within days of strolling out of prison without a hitch, two convicted killers freed by bogus paperwork went to a jail about 300 miles away and registered as felons, records s...

Obama weighing proposals for Iran

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is weighing whether to offer Iran the chance to recoup billions of dollars in frozen overseas assets if it takes steps to scale back its nuclear program...

Homeland Security pick couldn’t ‘refuse it’

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday nominated the Pentagon’s former top lawyer to help craft the nation’s counterterrorism policy as secretary of homeland security, suggesting a sh...

Police identify mall attacker

NAIROBI, Kenya – Quiet and respectful at the mosque as a boy, Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow later became angry and radicalized, people in the coastal town in Norway where he grew up said Friday of th...

Nation/World Briefs

Shutdown setback widens rift in GOP WASHINGTON – The Republicans’ clear defeat in the budget-debt brawl has widened the rift between the Grand Old Party and the blossoming tea...