The Latest: Toll from Baghdad bombing climbs to 115
The Latest on an IS-claimed car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital (all times local): 6:30 p.m. Iraqi officials say the death toll from the car bomb attack claimed by…
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Court OKs trial for girl who texted boyfriend urging suicide
By DENISE LAVOIE A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and telling him to “get back in” a truck filled…
Palestinian kills Israeli, wounds family in West Bank attack
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and IAN DEITCH A Palestinian gunman ambushed a family traveling in a car in the West Bank on Friday, killing an Israeli man and wounding his wife…
US: Up to 116 civilians killed in drone, other air attacks
By DEB RIECHMANN The White House said Friday that as many as 116 civilians have been killed by drone and other U.S. strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa since President…
Turkish official: Attackers were from Russia, Central Asia
By DOMINIQUE SOGUEL and SUZAN FRASER As the death toll from the Istanbul airport attack rose Thursday to 44, a senior Turkish official said the three suicide bombers who carried…
At 150, KKK sees opportunities in US political trends
By JAY REEVES Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights…
North America leaders urge against Trump’s isolationism
By KEVIN FREKING and ROB GILLIES President Barack Obama and the leaders of Mexico and Canada pushed back forcefully on Wednesday against the isolationist and anti-immigrant sentiments that have roiled…
Trump’s ‘America First’ echoes old isolationist rallying cry
By MICHAEL BIESECKER Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump boils down his foreign policy agenda to two words: “America First.” For students of U.S. history, that slogan harkens back to…