KABUL, Afghanistan — Separate explosions, set off by sticky bombs attached to cars, killed at least two people in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, including a prominent cleric who headed an Islamist nonprofit organization, officials said. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani denounced the cleric’s death as a “”terrorist attack on the dignity and bright future of …
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MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s beloved badger statue will stay at least two more years outside the governor’s state Capitol office after the Navy announced Monday it has paused plans to move it to an East Coast museum. The statue, crafted from melted-down cannons seized from Cuba during the Spanish-American War, was affixed to the first …
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AUSTIN, Texas — Nine of the 11 Fort Bliss soldiers sickened last week after drinking a component commonly found in antifreeze have been released from a Texas hospital, Army officials said Monday. Two soldiers remained hospitalized at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, including one who is in intensive care, Fort Bliss officials …
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ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a so-called government “safe house.” Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh, who has been on death row for 18 years, will be under guard and will not be …
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The CIA-backed venture-capital fund In-Q-Tel has created a new program to make spy-developed technology commercially available — a move designed to spur innovation and encourage public- and private-sector collaboration. The program, dubbed IQT Emerge, will connect previously hidden government research and development efforts to commercial markets. In-Q-Tel is a nonprofit funded by the intelligence community …
