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Marvel unveils movie lineup: Captain Marvel, Black Panther, more
Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Captain Marvel and the Inhumans will be starring in their own films as part of Marvel's […]
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Pinup video on military base raises eyebrows in Utah
The girlie video was intended as pure cheesecake. But for Jennifer Seelig, it was more like a horror flick. Seelig, minority leader in the Utah House, learned of the controversial footage last month as she boarded a flight to Washington....
U.S. airstrikes target militants in Syria plotting against West
An overnight U.S. aerial assault in northern Syria struck Al Qaeda-linked extremists who were plotting to attack the West, the U.S. military said Thursday. Targeted was an Al Qaeda faction that U.S. authorities call the Khorasan Group, composed...
U.S. officials send Kuwaiti man home from Guantanamo Bay prison
A long-held Al Qaeda suspect at Guantanamo Bay was sent home to Kuwait early Wednesday after U.S. officials concluded he does not pose a threat to the United States. Fawzi Odah, 37, was never charged or put on trial during his 13 years in the...
In Kharkiv, Ukraine, a cafe is an unlikely war room
Irina Korosteleva bustles into the KoKave coffee shop like a student late for class, her 5-year-old son Gardei in tow. She takes off the youngster's quilted jacket, parks him on a chair with a cellphone video game and takes her seat among fellow...
Ukraine cuts funding for east until pro-Russia 'terrorists' retreat
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk announced Wednesday that the government was cutting funding to areas in the east of the country occupied by pro-Russia separatists. "Today, to pay money to this area means that the money will not...
Russian Taliban fighter charged in U.S. civilian court
A Russian member of the Taliban who was captured by U.S. forces five years ago in eastern Afghanistan was named Tuesday in an indictment charging him with coordinating attacks on U.S. troops and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. ...
U.S. downplays gains by Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria
Al Qaeda-linked fighters have overrun key northern bastions of U.S.-backed Syrian rebels and were menacing a major border crossing, dealing a heavy blow to American hopes that moderate Syrian factions would provide significant aid in the battle against...
No. 3 Auburn gets by No. 4 Mississippi, 35-31
Cassanova McKinzy recovered a fumble in the end zone to preserve No.3 Auburn's 35-31 victory over No. 4 Mississippi on Saturday night in what amounted to the first College Football Playoff knockout game. The Tigers (7-1, 4-1 Southeastern...
Slain Afghan official, a poet, embodied hope of youth
To those who knew him, Abdul Qadim Patyal, the 32-year-old deputy governor of Kandahar province, was a rarity among Afghan officials: a politician with the soul of a poet. Patyal, a well-known writer, was gunned down Sunday while sitting in a...
Islamic State captured, beat Kurdish boys in Syria, rights group says
The Islamic State militant group kidnapped and tortured dozens of boys in Syria this year, beating them with hoses or electrical cables and forcing them to watch videos of beheadings and combat, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The youths, ages...
Why Iraqi army can't fight, despite $25 billion in U.S. aid, training
Hussein Shehab knew things were going badly when he spotted the Iraqi police pickup trucks. They were flying the black flag of Islamic State fighters, who were driving the vehicles straight toward him and his fellow Iraqi security force...
Jack Broughton dies at 89; outspoken, revered Vietnam fighter pilot
As a combat pilot, Air Force Col. Jack Broughton was celebrated for bravery and tactical brilliance during the Korean and Vietnam wars. He received promotions and important assignments and seemed headed to become a general. But a high-profile...
More than 50 dead in bombing on Pakistan-India border
At least 52 people were killed and more than 100 injured Sunday evening in a suicide attack after a storied flag-lowering ceremony near the Pakistan-India border, police and hospital officials said. The blast occurred near the Wagah crossing,...
As Ole Miss-Auburn shows, college football is also about cruel lows
The joy in college football is matched only by the stomach sickness. Only on high seas do you see these swells of ups and downs. Maybe it's the familial bonds we forge with schools. Maybe it's the ritual and pageantry wrapped in the...
Iraqi Shiite group massacred Sunnis at mosque, Human Rights Watch says
Iraq?s largest Shiite militia, which has been incorporated into the U.S.-backed national army and police, has been accused of massacring 34 Sunni Muslims at a mosque northeast of Baghdad in August.
Pro-Russia separatists defy warnings, hold 'sovereign' vote
Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine voted Sunday in elections condemned by the international community as illegal and a violation of a cease-fire already teetering on the verge of collapse. Results of the elections in Donetsk and...
Islamic State militants again massacre fellow Sunnis in Iraq
By all accounts, the killings have been summary, brutal and public: At least 200 members of a western Iraqi tribe that has defied the militants of Islamic State have been lined up and shot dead in recent days, including dozens whose executions came...
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