Dawud Salahuddin, an American fugitive who lives in Iran, saw Iranian police detain Robert Levinson in 2007, despite official Iranian denials. Levinson was trying to recruit Salahuddin as a source.
Decoder Wire Paul Ryan wins Iowa poll! What's that mean for 2016?
1:33 pm ET - Paul Ryan is a hit with Iowa Republicans, at least for now. But former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is just 7 points down, there's a hefty margin of error, and the Iowa caucuses are still three years out.
USA Update Teen gunman at Arapahoe High School bought ammo on day of attack
Karl Pierson, 18, was old enough to buy a shotgun under Colorado law – and he bought it a week before he stormed into Arapahoe High on Friday in search of the school debate coach. He bought ammunition that morning, officials say.
Terrorism & Security Curfew in South Sudan after fighting breaks out. Was it a coup attempt?
8:44 am ET - President Kiir called the fighting an 'attempted coup' in the world's newest nation.
Tea party and political buttons: Supreme Court declines Minnesota case
1:25 pm ET - Conservative groups, including the Minnesota North Star Tea Party Patriots, said a state election law violated voters' free speech rights. The action by the Supreme Court lets stand a federal appeals court decision upholding the statute.
Reality Check Restraint, not retaliation, after Israeli fatality on Lebanon border
9:26 am ET - UN peacekeepers are talking to military representatives on both sides of the border after the first fatality in three years.
How serious is the Republican food fight? (+video)
5:06 pm ET - With next year's mid-term congressional elections fast approaching, the Republican Party – including its top two Senate leaders – faces a challenge from tea party insurgents on the right.
EU suspends Ukraine trade talks amid protests in Kiev (+video)
1:47 pm ET - Protesters in Kiev angry that Ukranian President Yanukovych has spurned a trade deal with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia don't appear to have swayed the government.
Australia approves coal port near Great Barrier Reef
1:37 pm ET - A vast new coal port and "shipping super-highway" near Australia's Great Barrier Reef has environmentalists worried.
Obama now losing a key constituency: younger voters (+video)
11:16 am ET - Younger voters were a key to Barack Obama's successful presidential elections. But now polls show he's losing those 'millennials,' and Obamacare seems to be a major reason why.
A year after Newtown shootings, America is at crossroads on guns (+video)
2:04 pm ET - One of the deadliest school shootings in US history unified the country in grief. But the aftermath in the year since Sandy Hook has pulled an already polarized land further apart on guns.
Decoder Wire Flash! Fox’s Megyn Kelly now admits Jesus may not be 'white' (+video)
3:56 pm ET - Fox News host Megyn Kelly caused a mini-media storm when she asserted that Santa Claus and Jesus were both white. She backed off a bit on Jesus, but accuses her critics of race-baiting.
In Chile, women politicians rise, but women's rights lag
5:00 am ET - Chilean voters today will pick between two politicians in the first presidential election in Latin America where all the candidates are female.
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