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AP Exclusive: Some in National Security Agency warned of a backlash
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AP Exclusive: Some in National Security Agency warned of a backlash

By KEN DILANIAN Dissenters within the National Security Agency, led by a senior agency executive, warned in 2009 that the program to secretly collect American phone records wasn’t providing enough…

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Republicans: Keystone pipeline down, but not out
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Republicans: Keystone pipeline down, but not out

By DINA CAPPIELLO Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is promising the new Republican majority will quickly resurrect Keystone XL pipeline legislation killed by Democrats, potentially setting up an early…

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Colombia halts peace talks after general is taken
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Colombia halts peace talks after general is taken

By JOSHUA GOODMAN President Juan Manuel Santos demanded Colombia’s largest rebel group demonstrate its commitment to peace and immediately release an army general it captured Sunday, saying the resumption of…

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Palestinians kill 4 in Jerusalem synagogue attack
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Palestinians kill 4 in Jerusalem synagogue attack

Two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing four people in the city’s bloodiest attack in years. Police killed…

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Amnesty: UAE in unprecedented clampdown on dissent
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Amnesty: UAE in unprecedented clampdown on dissent

By AYA BATRAWY he United Arab Emirates has quietly mounted “an unprecedented clampdown on dissent” since 2011, with more than 100 political activists jailed or prosecuted for calling for political…

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