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Outraged Iraqi protesters, angered by U.S. strikes on armed battalions belonging to an Iranian-backed militia, attack the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday.

U.S. Sends Reinforcements As Protesters Try To Enter U.S. Embassy Compound In Baghdad

11:18pm December 31, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

Security forces fired tear gas at demonstrators as President Trump called on Iraq to intervene with force. The protesters are angry about a series of U.S. airstrikes on an Iranian-backed militia.

Fighters from the Kataeb Hezbollah militia inspect the destruction of their headquarters on Monday in the aftermath of a U.S. airstrike in Qaim, Iraq.

Iraq Condemns U.S. Airstrikes Against Iranian-Backed Militia

6:56pm December 30, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

The Iraqi government has condemned the strikes as an attack on Iraqi sovereignty. The militia says at least 25 of its fighters were killed. Iraq said it would summon the U.S. ambassador.

Navy midshipmen march onto the field ahead of the annual NCAA college football game between the Army and the Navy in Philadelphia on Dec. 14.

Cadets Were Playing Game, Not Flashing 'White Power' Sign, Military Finds

4:24pm December 20, 2019

by Brakkton Booker

At the Army-Navy game this month, cadets flashed the "OK" hand gesture for television cameras — a symbol popular with hate groups. West Point officials say they were playing an "innocent game."

John Bolton after a meeting in Minsk, Belarus, in late August, nearly two weeks before his ouster as President Trump's national security adviser.

Bolton: Trump Administration Could Be Making 'Big Mistake' On North Korea

8:49pm December 19, 2019

In an exclusive interview with NPR, former Ambassador John Bolton criticized his ex-boss' strategy, saying "there's no serious chance" North Korea will voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons program.

Adriana Jones, a member of the LeBaron family, holds images of relatives who were killed in November. Jones and other family members were participating in a Dec. 1 protest in Mexico City against Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to express a

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This Grieving Family Wants The U.S. To Designate Mexican Cartels As Terrorists

9:33pm December 13, 2019

by Joel Rose

Relatives of nine American women and children who were brutally killed in Mexico last month were in Washington this week to tell their story. They want the U.S. to go after drug cartels.

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Hua Qu, the wife of Xiyue Wang, a Princeton University graduate student being held at an Iranian prison, wears a button bearing a picture of her husband as she speaks at a news conference to mark the third anniversary of his imprisonment, Aug. 8, 2019, in

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American Student Xiyue Wang Freed In U.S.-Iran Prisoner Swap

5:44pm December 07, 2019

by James Doubek

The Princeton graduate student held by Iran for three years, was released Saturday in exchange for Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani, who had been held in the United States.

Migrant parents in the tent camps in Matamoros, Mexico, are sending their kids across the border and taking advantage of the rule that unaccompanied children can't be returned to Mexico. Here, Alexis Martinez holds a cellphone photo of his 7-year-old son

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'I Want To Be Sure My Son Is Safe': Asylum-Seekers Send Children Across Border Alone

9:28pm November 27, 2019

by John Burnett

Some migrant parents who were told to wait in Mexico under President Trump's asylum policies are sending their children, unaccompanied, across the bridge to surrender to U.S. agents.

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A flock of Texel-Dorset sheep gather near a hay trough in a Hudson River Valley barn in Medusa, N.Y. Millennials and more experimental diners might be open to eating mutton.

After WWII, Mutton Fell Out Of Favor In The U.S. Can It Make A Comeback?

10:37am November 26, 2019

by Lisa Fogarty

Once the stuff of high-end cuisine, mutton consumption tanked thanks to competition from the cattle industry and GIs fed up with rations. Fans say it's time to re-embrace this underappreciated meat.

Former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee was sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiracy to spy for China.

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Ex-CIA Officer Sentenced To 19 Years For Conspiracy To Spy For China

8:11pm November 22, 2019

by Brakkton Booker

Officials say Jerry Chun Shing Lee received more than $840,000 from Chinese officials in exchange for U.S. secrets. His Chinese handlers said they would "take care of him for life."

The U.S. government is letting American businesses work with Chinese tech giant Huawei for three more months, in a third delay to a ban enacted in May for national security reasons.

U.S. Firms Get 90-Day Extension To Work With Huawei On Rural Networks

2:30pm November 18, 2019

by Shannon Bond

The U.S. government is letting American businesses work with Chinese tech giant Huawei for an additional three months, in a third delay to a ban enacted in May for national security reasons.