Kerry would be willing to talk with Syria's Assad

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CIA fights back after Senate torture report

WASHINGTON — Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate’s investigation into the CIA’s harrowing torture practices after 9/11, battling to define the historical record and deter potential legal action around the world.

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Obama seeks allies for fight against extremists

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Strange bedfellows

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Boehner's aboard

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Clinton to Egypt's Morsi: Find a way out of crisis

CAIRO - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt's new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders as a way of preserving the country's transition to democracy.

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European woes could cause U.S. problems

WASHINGTON - Your 401(k) could sink again. A plummeting euro may make it harder for American companies to sell goods overseas. Credit could be tightened.

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Strauss-Kahn's IMF future hinges on bail hearing

WASHINGTON - Dominique Strauss-Kahn's bail hearing Thursday could spell the end of his leadership of the International Monetary Fund.

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Obama tells GOP not to hold up Russia arms treaty

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama took aim Saturday at Republican senators standing in the way of a nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia, saying they were abandoning Ronald Reagan's lesson of nuclear diplomacy: "Trust but verify."

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Wonder tells UN: Ease copyrights for the blind

GENEVA - Stevie Wonder pressed global copyright overseers on Monday to help blind and visually impaired people access millions of science, history and other audiobooks, which they cannot read in electronic form.

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