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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...

Stepmom of teen accused in Florida bullying arrested

The stepmother of a 14-year-old accused of bullying a Florida girl prior to her suicide was arrested and charged with child abuse after a video depicting the woman beating a boy was posted o...

Gun rights rally to break long Alamo tradition

McALLEN, Texas – This is how to make another gun rally in gun-friendly Texas stand out: Tell everybody to bring their rifles and shotguns to the Alamo, the state’s most popular attraction, w...

Ex-House Speaker Tom Foley dies at 84

WASHINGTON – Tom Foley, the courtly former speaker of the U.S. House who lost his seat when Republicans seized control of Congress in 1994, has died of complications from a stroke. He was 84...

No safe bets for Obama despite toned-down agenda

WASHINGTON – Regrouping after a feud with Congress stalled his agenda, President Barack Obama is laying down a three-item to-do list for Congress that seems meager when compared with the bol...