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An American jailed in Pakistan for the fatal shooting of two armed men was secretly working for the CIA and scouting a neighborhood when he was arrested, a disclosure likely to further frustrate U.S. government efforts to free the man and strain relations between two countries partnered in a fragile alliance in the war on terror.
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The State Department has ordered all embassy family members and non-emergency personnel to depart Libya and is warning American travelers of the potential for ongoing unrest in the African nation.
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Navy sailors will suit up in battle gear and take up fighting positions at U.S. bases during the nation's largest anti-terrorism exercise, an effort meant to gauge their response to multiple attacks, officials said.
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In receiving communion, pro-abortion Gov. Andrew Cuomo committed an “objectively sacreligious” act that “produces grave scandal,” said Dr. Edward Peters, a top expert in church law and a consultant to the highest court at the Vatican.
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The United Nations, which marked a "World Day of Social Justice" on Sunday, Feb. 20, is calling for a "new era" in which all the people of the world have access to basic services and "decently" paying jobs.
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Some of the young activists who launched the Egyptian uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak say they are skeptical about the military's pledges to hand over power to a democratically elected government.
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Yemen's embattled leader on Monday rejected demands that he step down, saying widespread demonstrations against his regime are unacceptable acts of provocation.
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If the ships make the passage, it would mark the first time in three decades that Iranian military ships have traveled the canal that links the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
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Former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush will serve as honorary chairmen of a new center opening on Monday at the University of Arizona that will focus on civility in political debate, the Washington Post reported.
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A team of researchers and agricultural agents hopes to take a bite out of the West Coast's $1 billion broccoli monopoly with new strains of the vegetable designed to withstand the East Coast's heat and humidity.
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Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms.
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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources plans to prohibit waders with felt soles starting on March 21 to curb the spread of invasive organisms that can get trapped in the damp fibers and carried from one body of water to another.
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The U.S. does not expect this year's climate change conference in South Africa to yield a binding international agreement to stop global warming, the top U.S. negotiator said Monday.
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A senior U.S. diplomat on Sunday condemned the brutal crackdown on opposition protesters in Libya, saying Arab leaders facing pro-democracy protests need to lead the way rather than resist reform.
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Over the past three decades, two national commissions and a series of government audits sounded alarms about the dwindling amount of money states were setting aside to pay unemployment insurance to laid-off workers.
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