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Ayotte presses Obama for answers on Guantanamo releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen Kelly Ayotte is calling on President Barack Obama to "tell the truth" about terrorist detainees who have "reportedly killed Americans and our allies" after being released from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Guantanamo has been a frequent subject for Ayotte,

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Globe targets assault rifles, Ayotte in editorial wrap

BOSTON – In a move reminiscent of its one-time parent, the Boston Globe put its editorial opinion front and center Thursday, wrapping the newspaper with a package urging tighter gun controls under a red-letter headline: "Make it stop." The paper's move reflected a Dec. 5 New York

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Making a mockery of motives

Earlier this month, White House spokesman Josh Earnest described the threat of radical Islamic terrorism to the U.S. as nothing more than "a Republican talking point." The statement, made to CNN (one of the administration's favorite safe spaces), seems odd considering that CIA Director John

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Islamic State uses 20,000 kids as shields in Iraq’s Fallujah

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.N. children's fund on Wednesday issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and Islamic State militants in the battle for Fallujah to spare the children, the most vulnerable among tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the city west of Baghdad. Iraqi forces backed

Immigration

State Dept. official: ‘No excuse for governments to not enforce effective border controls’

(CNSNews.com) — The U.S. State Department's Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Justin Siberell, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a written statement today that "[t]here is no excuse for governments to not enforce effective border controls." "There is no greater

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Searchers find body parts, debris from EgyptAir jet

CAIRO (AP) — Search crews found floating human remains, luggage and seats from the doomed EgyptAir jetliner Friday but face a potentially more complex task in locating bigger pieces of wreckage and the black boxes vital to determining why the plane plunged into the Mediterranean. Looking for clues to whether terrorists

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Boko Haram Nigeria kidnap victim found in shock, with baby

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — One of hundreds of teenagers kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists over two years ago from a school in northeastern Nigeria has been found with a baby and was reunited Wednesday with her mother — the first of the Chibok girls to be freed since the mass abduction. Nigerian

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Victims of Islamic State horrors appeal for intervention

NEW YORK – The Rev. Douglas Al-Bazi, a Chaldean Catholic Church parish priest from Erbil, Iraq, took the podium at the United Nations last week to share his experiences while held captive by Islamic State, the horrors he witnessed, and to appeal for help. "Friends, I am a priest. I