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HRW: Saudi Arabia’s Airstrikes In Yemen Amount To War Crimes

“Saudi Arabia pledged to minimize civilian harm, yet coalition airstrikes are still wiping out entire families.”

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People search under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. The airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeted Yemen's capital early on Friday, hitting at least three houses in Sanaa and killing at least 14 civilians, including women and children, residents and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

The Saudi-led coalition waging an air campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels in the north is killing children in what amounts to war crimes, an international rights group said Tuesday.Human Rights Watch released a detailed report documenting the deaths of 26 children killed in five airstrikes since June. The group said that despite coalition

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Oklahoma Man Arrested In Attempted Domestic Terrorism Attack

The would-be bomber prepared a Facebook statement to be posted after the explosion which reads in part that the attack was “retaliation against the freedoms that have been taken away from the American people.”

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Jerry Drake Varnell, of Sayre, Okla. was arrested, Aug. 12, 2017, in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb in an alley adjacent to BancFirst in downtown Oklahoma City. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections)

OKLAHOMA CITY — A 23-year-old man who was "out for blood" when attempted to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van outside an Oklahoma bank in a plot similar to the deadly 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building is expected to be formally charged Monday, authorities said. Federal officials said Jerry Drake Varnell of

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Minnesota Mosque Bombing ‘Deeper And Scarier’ Than Just Threats

Reports of anti-Muslim incidents in the U.S. are increasing, including arson attacks and vandalism at mosques, harassment of women wearing Muslim head coverings and bullying of Muslim schoolchildren.

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Law enforcement officials investigate an explosion at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minn., on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. (David Joles/Star Tribune)

MINNEAPOLIS  — The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in suburban Minneapolis, like other U.S. mosques, occasionally receives threatening calls and emails. Its leaders say they're more frightened now after an explosive shattered windows and damaged a room as worshippers prepared for morning prayers. "We feel like it's much deeper and scarier than like

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St. Louis Cop Faces Murder Charge For ‘Executing’ Man Then Planting Gun In His Vehicle

The first-degree murder trial of Jason Stockley will be decided by a judge rather than a jury despite objections from prosecutors.

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St. Louis Cop On Trial For 'Executing' Man Then Planting Gun In His Vehicle

A white former St. Louis police officer charged with killing a black man "executed" him after a car chase, then planted a gun in the slain drug suspect's vehicle as an excuse for opening fire, a prosecutor told a court Tuesday. But an attorney for the officer denied the prosecutor's allegations during opening statements in the first-degree

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Israeli PM Caught On Hot Mic Deriding ‘Crazy’ EU, Admitting To Syria Strikes

Benjamin Netanyahu was caught Wednesday by a live microphone railing against the European Union’s “crazy” insistence on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, listens to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, July 19, 2017. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

BUDAPEST, Hungary  — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was caught Wednesday by a live microphone railing against the European Union's "crazy" insistence on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a precondition for closer ties with the 28-nation bloc, and trumpeting Israel as essential to its prosperity and survival. Netanyahu was

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House Budget Blueprint Boosts Military, Cuts Food Stamps

The plan would cut $500 billion from Medicare, $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and the Obama health law, along with sweeping cuts to benefits such as federal employee pensions, food stamps, and tax credits for the working poor.

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House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans on, July 18, 2017, unveiled a budget that makes deep cuts in food stamps and other social safety net programs while boosting military spending by billions. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that proposes trillions of dollars in cuts to the social safety net and other domestic programs while sharply boosting military spending, a blueprint that elicited criticism from conservatives and moderates. The GOP plan, authored by Budget Chairman Diane Black, R-Tenn., is critical to GOP hopes to

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Team Probing Syria Chemical Weapons Attacks Under Political Pressure

The pressure is coming from “more than one and probably less than 20, but it’s still from quite a lot of different sectors and interested parties.”

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Headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP/Peter Dejong)

The head of the team charged with determining responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria appealed to governments on Thursday to stop exerting political pressure on investigators who will report in mid-October on two incidents, including an April 4 attack that killed over 90 people. Edmund Mulet told reporters after briefing the

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