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FILE – This undated photo provided by Taylor family attorney Sam Aguiar shows Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky. A group of about 50 demonstrators who’ve been demanding justice for Taylor for months, have become like family. (Courtesy of Taylor Family attorney Sam Aguiar via AP, File) NYSB333 NYSB333

September 28, 2020 at 8:36 pm

Grand jury deliberations in Breonna Taylor case will be released

A grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case has said that Kentucky’s attorney general publicly misrepresented the jury’s deliberations and their decision not to indict...

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September 23, 2020 at 7:18 pm

2 cops shot as protests grow after decision not to charge officers in Breonna Taylor’s death

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A grand jury weighing evidence in one of the country’s most contentious police shootings indicted a former Louisville police detective on charges...

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June 30, 2020 at 4:40 pm

Suspicions of Russian Bounties Were Bolstered by Data on Financial Transfers

U.S. officials intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency to a Taliban-linked account, evidence that...

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January 4, 2020 at 5:26 pm

As Tensions With Iran Escalated, Trump Opted for an Extreme Measure

WASHINGTON — In the chaotic days leading to the death of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful commander, top American military officials put the...

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November 12, 2019 at 3:27 pm

Islamic State Leader May Have Had U.S. Hostage Executed, Witness Says

WASHINGTON — After the Islamic State declared that Kayla Mueller, a 26-year-old humanitarian worker from Arizona it was holding hostage, was killed in an airstrike...

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Screen grab of the chief of the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as he purportedly appears for the first time in five years in a propaganda video in an undisclosed location in April 2019.

October 30, 2019 at 6:28 pm

ISIS Leader Paid Rival for Protection but Was Betrayed by His Own

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was able to hide out in an unlikely part of Syria, the base of a rival group, because he...

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Hoda Muthana, who was born in the United States and joined the Islamic State four years ago, with her son at a detention camp in Al-Hawl, Syria, Feb. 17, 2019. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Feb. 20, that Muthana did not qualify for citizenship and had no legal basis to return to the country. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times) XNYT117 XNYT117

February 20, 2019 at 2:05 pm

Alabama woman who joined ISIS can’t return home, Pompeo says

A young woman born in the United States who joined the Islamic State four years ago does not qualify for citizenship and has no legal...

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Hoda Muthana, who left Alabama for the Islamic State group’s self-declared caliphate four years ago, at the Al-Hawl refugee camp in Syria, Feb. 17, 2019. After enduring three marriages to Islamic State fighters and witnessing executions like those she had once cheered on social media, Muthana says she is deeply sorry and wants to return home. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times) XNYT190 XNYT190

February 19, 2019 at 5:53 pm

‘I ruined my life. I ruined my future’: Two American wives of ISIS militants want to come home

Nearly all the American men who joined the Islamic State group and were captured in battle have been repatriated. Women in the same situation say...

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January 9, 2019 at 4:19 pm

American boy, 16, caught fighting for ISIS in Syria, militia says

Just five U.S. citizens so far have been taken alive on the front line in the battle against the Islamic State, according to a database...

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January 6, 2019 at 10:54 am

2 Americans who joined ISIS caught on the front lines in Syria

A 34-year-old man from Houston who sent a résumé and cover letter seeking a job inside the Islamic State group was captured alive on the...

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