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North Koreans getting more foreign media than ever, study says

2012-05-11 16:38:48

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U.S. lawmakers want Pakistan network to be dubbed terrorists

2012-05-11 16:38:49

<![CDATA[U.S. lawmakers want Pakistan network to be dubbed terrorists]]>

U.S. resumes some weapons sales to Bahrain

2012-05-11 21:38:34

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Nicholas Katzenbach dies at 90; attorney general under Johnson

2012-05-10 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of the...

Colombian police announce the surrender of top narco to the DEA

2012-05-07 21:39:24

Don't forget India's nukes

2012-05-09 00:00:00

"We urge all nuclear-capable states to exercise restraint regarding nuclear capabilities," a State Department spokesman said last month after India successfully blasted its new long-range Agni 5 missile into the Bay of Bengal. But he quickly softened...

Daum: Too brainy to be president?

2012-05-10 00:00:00

As devotees of Barack Obama know all too well, qualities that made him so attractive as a candidate — an affinity for subtle arguments, a tendency to carefully weigh his options — have at times proved less useful in his role as president. That...

McManus: Coming clean on drones

2012-05-06 00:00:00

In recent weeks, a parade of top officials has given sober, underpublicized speeches explaining why President Obama not only considers "targeted killing" drone strikes against terrorists legal but has massively expanded their use, even approving a...

Texas pastor a key player in Chen Guangcheng case

2012-05-05 20:47:00

WASHINGTON — When Bob Fu's cellphone rang halfway through a congressional hearing concerning detained Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, all the West Texas pastor had to do was gesture for the congressman in charge, Rep. Christopher H. Smith, to...

Using #WeGotBinLaden to see what we believe on Twitter, and why

2012-04-28 08:30:00

How do we separate fact from rumor on Twitter, and how do we decide which Tweeters to trust? That question is at the heart of a study conducted by researchers at Georgia Tech. The study not only examines how news of Osama bin Laden's death moved...

Secretary Clinton all but mum on Chen Guangcheng case

2012-04-30 16:38:46

Diplomatic silence shrouds Chinese dissident Chen's situation

2012-04-30 16:38:49

issues with trying to keep her family together in the wake of her divorce from former President Bud Hammond (Ciaran Hinds).

2012-05-15 12:46:22

speaks to 6th, 7th and 8th grade students from Alcott Elementary located at 2625 N. Orchard St. in Chicago.

2012-05-15 00:00:00

Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng holds hands with U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, as U.S. State Department legal advisor Harold Koh applauds, before Chen left the U.S. Embassy for a hospital in Beijing, in a photo released by the U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office.

2012-05-02 00:00:00