US fight over gunman’s locked iPhone could have big impact
By ERIC TUCKER and TAMI ABDOLLAH A U.S. magistrate’s order for Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by the gunman in the mass shooting in…
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The Big Uh-Oh: Global economy shaky and cavalry may not come
By DAVID McHUGH and PAUL WISEMAN Eight years after the financial crisis, the world is coming to grips with an unpleasant realization: serious weaknesses still plague the global economy, and…
Russia denies striking charity’s hospital in Syria
By BASSEM MROUE and LYNN BERRY Russia on Tuesday denied its warplanes carried out strikes on a Syrian hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders that killed at least nine people,…
Senate GOP to Obama: Don’t bother nominating to Court
By DONNA CASSATA Senate Republicans united behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in insisting that President Barack Obama’s successor fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. Democrats…
Airstrikes in northern Syria hit 2 hospitals, school
Airstrikes hit two hospitals and a school in northern Syria, killing and wounding dozens of people on Monday, according to opposition activists, who said the strikes were carried out by…
US plane impounded in Zimbabwe; body and cash found on board
By FARAI MUTSAKA Zimbabwean aviation authorities impounded a U.S.-registered cargo jet, a senior official said Monday, after a dead body later believed to be a stowaway and millions of South…
Pope warns against devil in hardscrabble Mexico City suburb
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered Sunday for the biggest event of Pope Francis’ five-day trip to Mexico, a Mass in the capital’s crime-ridden suburb of Ecatepec, where drug violence,…
As FBI goes through evidence at refuge, town awaits normalcy
By REBECCA BOONE As the FBI focuses on its criminal investigation at the national wildlife refuge taken over by an armed group, land managers must get ready to reopen the…