Putin, Erdogan agree on steps to mend relations
By IRINA TITOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday after talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that the two nations can rebuild their damaged ties and…
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FBI: 1st US law enforcement officer charged in terror sting
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Prosecutors brought the first-ever federal terrorism charges against a law enforcement officer in the U.S., alleging Wednesday that a patrol officer with the D.C. region’s Metro Transit…
Police give all-clear in Munich shooting; say suspect dead
By GEORGE JAHN, FRANK JORDANS and DAVID RISING An 18-year-old German-Iranian man opened fire in a crowded Munich shopping mall and a nearby McDonald’s Friday night, killing nine people and…
German train attacker vowed ‘revenge on the infidels’
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, DAVID RISING and CHRISTOPH NOELTING A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker vowing “revenge on these infidels” went on an ax-and-knife rampage on a train in southern Germany, wounding five…
France reels as Bastille Day truck attack kills 84 in Nice
By PHILIPPE SOTTO, RAPHEL SATTER, JAMEY KEATEN and LORI HINNANT A Tunisian living in France drove a large truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day along Nice’s beachfront, killing at least…
Uber gets OK to operate in Philadelphia during convention
By MEGAN TRIMBLE Uber has struck a deal with Philadelphia to operate legally in the city during the Democratic National Convention and through the summer. The agreement announced Thursday with…
DIVIDED AMERICA: Town and country offer differing realities
From where Peggy Sheahan stands, deep in rural Colorado, the last eight years were abysmal. Otero County, where Sheahan lives, is steadily losing population. Middle-class jobs vanished years ago as…
Israel’s Netanyahu in Uganda to start 4-nation Africa tour
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country’s raid on Uganda’s Entebbe airport 40 years ago, in which his brother was killed, “changed the course” of his…