| Cruz blames Trump for National Enquirer story about affairs Posted: 25 Mar 2016 02:43 PM PDT  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump at campaign stops earlier this year The already ugly race for the Republican presidential nomination took yet another nasty turn Friday, as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz accused rival Donald Trump of planting a National Enquirer story that alleged he has had multiple extramarital affairs. Published Thursday after weeks of rumors about the leader of the anti-Trump movement in the GOP primary, the story rumbled through the political world and burst onto Twitter, where some users have played a parlor game trying to identify the women. "For Donald J. Trump to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding shows you there is no low Donald won't go… Donald Trump's consistently disgraceful behavior is beneath the office we are seeking." Trump, in a statement, insisted he had nothing to do with the story. "I have no idea whether or not the cover story about Ted Cruz in this week's issue of the National Enquirer is true or not, but I had absolutely nothing to do with it, did not know about it, and have not, as yet, read it," Trump said.
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| Panetta says ‘reckless’ Trump, Cruz hurt U.S. overseas Posted: 25 Mar 2016 12:26 PM PDT  Former defense secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that he regularly talks to officials around the world who are repulsed by "deeply reckless" rhetoric on national security from Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his rival Ted Cruz. The former CIA director, speaking to reporters on a conference call organized by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, did not name the foreign dignitaries in question.
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| Belgian police shoot suspect in Europe-wide terror raids Posted: 25 Mar 2016 12:42 PM PDT  Belgian police shot a suspect as part of a huge European terror crackdown that netted several arrests Friday as France's president said a jihadist network that targeted both Paris and Brussels was being "destroyed". Grieving Belgians held prayers in the rain in a central Brussels square carpeted with flowers and tributes to the 31 dead and 300 wounded in Tuesday's carnage in Brussels, but there was also growing anger at the government for letting a string of militants slip through the net. The raids came as under-fire Belgian investigators uncovered alarming new evidence of a European jihadist cell tied to the bombings at Brussels' airport and metro, November's Paris attacks and a new French plot.
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| Garland nomination fight centers around disrespect for Obama, not the judge Posted: 25 Mar 2016 11:40 AM PDT  How do you get the Democratic base fired up about nominating a moderate white man in his 60s to the Supreme Court? The progressive groups leading the charge in support of Merrick Garland's nomination think they've found the answer. In social media blasts and in-person calls to action around the country, they are casting Republicans' near-unanimous refusal to consider President Obama's nominee as part of a history of disrespect and disdain shown to the president — a disrespect that is racially motivated.
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| War on terror taking a toll on bomb dog supply Posted: 25 Mar 2016 02:07 AM PDT The global war on terror's ever-increasing dependency on man's best friend is presenting a new problem — a deficit of high-quality bomb dogs. |
| Young Egyptian man imprisoned for protesting torture released after 2 years Posted: 25 Mar 2016 10:38 AM PDT A young Egyptian man who was arrested while wearing an anti-torture T-shirt was released from prison after two years. |
| Pentagon moving to increase US troop numbers in Iraq soon Posted: 25 Mar 2016 09:40 AM PDT  The Pentagon said Friday it was moving to increase the number of American forces in Iraq and announced that U.S. forces have killed the Islamic State's finance minister. "We are systematically eliminating ISIL's cabinet," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said. Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said recommendations on ways to increase U.S. support for Iraq's ground fight against IS are going to be discussed with President Barack Obama soon.
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| Belgian police arrest six in bombing probe, French foil Paris plot Posted: 24 Mar 2016 05:46 PM PDT  By Alastair Macdonald, Ingrid Melander and Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police arrested six people in their probe of Tuesday's Islamic State suicide bombings in Brussels, while authorities in France said they thwarted a militant plot there "that was at an advanced stage." The federal prosecutor's office in Belgium said on Thursday that the arrests came during police searches in the Brussels neighborhoods of Schaerbeek in the north and Jette in the west, as well as in the center of the Belgian capital. The arrests came days after suicide bombers hit the Brussels airport and a metro train, killing at least 31 people and wounding some 270 in the worst such attack in Belgian history. The attack in Brussels, which is home to the European Union and NATO, has heightened security concerns around the world and raised questions about European countries' response to the threat from Islamist extremists.
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| Cruz-Trump spat over wives takes nastier turn Posted: 24 Mar 2016 07:33 PM PDT  DANE, Wis. (AP) — Ted Cruz branded Donald Trump a "sniveling coward" Thursday as the feud between the Republican presidential contenders over their wives took a nastier turn.
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| Cubans flock to first ever Rolling Stones concert Posted: 25 Mar 2016 02:38 PM PDT  Tens of thousands of Cubans flocked Friday to the first Rolling Stones concert ever played on the communist island, symbolically breaking with a repressive past in which even listening to rock 'n roll was illegal. With no charge for entry, Cuban state media estimated that as many as 500,000 people could cram into Havana's Ciudad Deportiva sports complex -- and thousands more into surrounding streets. Many others began streaming in more than six hours before the Stones' frontman Mick Jagger was to get the gig started at about 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Saturday).
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| American detained in North Korea says he's sorry for spying Posted: 25 Mar 2016 10:05 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American detained in North Korea said he had spied against the country and asked for forgiveness at a media presentation Friday, nine days after a U.S. tourist was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion. |
| As Korean tensions rise, rival leaders get personal Posted: 24 Mar 2016 10:48 PM PDT  Escalating military tensions on the divided Korean peninsula took an increasingly personal turn on Friday, with the leaders of North and South each threatening the other's destruction. For North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un that meant overseeing a long-range artillery drill, simulating a strike on the offices and official residence of his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-Hye. Tensions between the two Koreas have been rising since North Korea carried out its fourth nuclear test in January, and a satellite rocket launch a month later that was widely seen as a disguised ballistic missile test.
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| Body matching description of missing Indiana toddler found Posted: 24 Mar 2016 08:05 PM PDT  SPENCER, Ind. (AP) — Authorities found a body Thursday night that matches the description of a missing 1-year-old girl, and a man was in custody in connection with the child's disappearance, Indiana State Police said.
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