DIVIDED AMERICA: Seeing options shrinking, white men ask why
By MATT SEDENSKY The voices cascade into the studio, denouncing political hypocrisy and media bias and disappearing values. Hillary Clinton is a liar and a crook, they say; Donald Trump…
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VIEWERS’ GUIDE: Candidates hone final arguments for Round 3
By NANCY BENAC It was barely three weeks ago that Donald Trump opened the first presidential debate by asking, with faux deference, if it was OK to refer to his…
Philippine police van rams protesters in front of US Embassy
By BULLIT MARQUEZ and BOGIE CALUPITAN A Philippine police van rammed into protesters, leaving several bloodied, as an anti-U.S. rally turned violent Wednesday at the American Embassy in Manila. The…
Chibok leader: 100-plus girls unwilling to leave Boko Haram
By MICHELLE FAUL and OYEKANMI OLALEKAN Nigeria’s government is negotiating the release of another 83 of the Chibok schoolgirls taken in a mass abduction two-and-a-half years ago, but more than…
Mystery swirls around Assange’s status at Ecuadorean Embassy
By RAPHAEL SATTER Midway through releasing a series of damaging disclosures about U.S. presidential contender Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his hosts at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London…
Social Security recipients to get tiny increase in benefits
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Millions of Social Security recipients and federal retirees will get a 0.3 percent increase in monthly benefits next year, the fifth year in a row that older…
Retaking Mosul: Iraqi forces most complex anti-IS operation
By SUSANNAH GEORGE Iraqi forces have launched their most complex anti-IS operation to date: retaking the country’s second-largest city of Mosul. While the country’s military has won a string of…
WikiLeaks: Assange’s internet link ‘severed’ by state actor
WikiLeaks says that founder Julian Assange’s internet access has been cut by an unidentified state actor. Few other details were immediately available. Assange has been up holed up at the…