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Internet blocks return in Iran after brief opening

TEHRAN, Iran – Word of the opening of Iran’s blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the s...

U.N. official: World failing over climate change

LONDON – International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations’ top climate officials said Tuesday, appealing directly to the world’s voters to p...

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Republican seek delay of health-care law WASHINGTON – Implacable Republican opposition to Obamacare has Congress once more veering closer to gridlock. In the House, mor...

Russia rejects use of force in Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria – Russia insisted Tuesday that a U.N. Security Council resolution governing Syria’s handling of its chemical weapons not allow the use of force, but it suggested that could c...

White House criticizes lawmakers opposing gun bill

Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s spokesman on Tuesday criticized lawmakers who have stood in the way of expanded background checks for gun purchases and said...

Shooter was hearing voices

WASHINGTON – A month before he went on the rampage that left 13 dead, Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through th...

Brazil looks to break from U.S.-centric Internet

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first...

Poverty stuck at 15% despite economic uptick

WASHINGTON – The nation’s poverty rate remained stuck at 15 percent last year despite America’s slowly reviving economy, a discouraging lack of improvement for the record 46.5 million poor a...

Syria deal shines light on Israeli capabilities

JERUSALEM – The U.S.-Russian plan to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons is drawing attention to Israel’s own suspected chemical stockpile and could raise pressure on the Jewish state to come...

New Egyptian petition: Run, General, run

CAIRO – A group of professionals and former army officers Monday launched a petition urging Egypt’s military chief, who ousted the country’s first freely elected leader, to run for president...

Summers debate highlights Obama fissures with Dems

WASHINGTON – Once again, President Barack Obama has been forced to abandon a friend and ally he wanted to nominate for a top job. But this time, the resistance that pushed Lawrenc...

Big-business leaders talk tax code at Montana summit

BUTTE, Mont. – U.S. Sen. Max Baucus said Monday that his effort to revamp the tax code helped attract some of the business world’s biggest names to Montana for a jobs conference that touche...