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Kenyans Mutai, Jeptoo Win New York City Marathon

Sunday, November 03, 2013

This Post Was Last Updated At 12:06 p.m. ET.

Two Kenyans running similarly tactical races came from behind to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday, marking the third time Kenyans have won both the men's and women's 26.2-mile road race.

Geoffrey Mutai, of Kenya, stayed pretty quiet for ...

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Kerry In Egypt For First Time Since Morsi's Ouster

Sunday, November 03, 2013

Secretary of State John Kerry is in Egypt this morning, marking the highest level visit by a U.S. diplomat since the military ousted President Hosni Mubarak in July.

The visit also comes at a time when relations between the two countries are frayed. Reporting from Cairo, NPR's Leila Fadel sent ...

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'Egypt's Jon Stewart' Kicked Off The Air

Saturday, November 02, 2013

First, Bassem Youssef, a satirist known as "Egypt's Jon Stewart," angered the Islamists; now he's angered the military that ousted them.

Here's how The Wall Street Journal tells the story:

"Mr. Youssef, currently one of the most widely watched comedians in the Arab world, was taken off air ...

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Pakistan Slams U.S. Over Drone Strike Against Taliban Chief

Saturday, November 02, 2013

Pakistan is blasting the United States for a drone strike that has allegedly killed Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud.

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Pakistan's ties with the United States would be reviewed, after what he called "an attack on regional peace by America."

Pakistan's Dawn reports:

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The One Moment You Should Watch From The Red Sox Parade

Saturday, November 02, 2013

The World Series Championship parade in Boston on Saturday was full of everything you might expect: Crowds, cheering and confetti.

But as the world champion Boston Red Sox made their way on Boylston Street toward the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the celebration gave way to a moment ...

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WATCH: BBC News Introduces The 'Hexacopter'

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

We're not sure if it outdoes Fox News and its giant tablets, but the BBC introduced a gadget it says will "transform the way TV news looks in the future."

They call it the "hexacopter." And it's essentially a drone with six rotors that's able to flit through ...

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U.S. Did Not Spy On French, Spanish Citizens, Says Spy Chief

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The brewing scandal over allegations that the United States spied on millions of phone calls made by Spanish and French citizens took a sharp, surprising turn Tuesday.

During congressional testimony, Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, said those reports, based on documents leaked by former ...

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Two Kenyan Soldiers Jailed For Looting During Mall Siege

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Two Kenyan soldiers have been fired and jailed after they allegedly looted stores while they were supposed to be trying to a control a terrorist attack at a Nairobi mall last month, the Kenyan Army said on Tuesday.

Following the four-day siege, which left 67 people dead, there were ...

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WATCH: Surfers Ride Towering Waves In Portugal

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Here we go again: As a massive storm brings hurricane force winds through Western Europe, surfers in Nazaré, Portugal were taking advantage of monster waves, triggering rumors of record-breaking rides.

As we've reported, if there is a place to break the record for riding the tallest wave, it's ...

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Police Seek Suspects In Tiananmen Car Crash

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

On Monday, a car crashed into Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The Guardian reports that police said the vehicle "burst into flames" after crashing into a guardrail, leaving five dead and 38 people injured.

As you might expect, the square — the site of China's 1989 pro-democracy protests — is full ...

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Police Arrest 90 After Second Night Of Violent Protests In Brazil

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

During a second night of violent protests, police in São Paulo arrested 90 people. NPR's Lourdes Garcia Navarro reports that since protests flared this summer, confrontations with police in Brazil's two largest cities — São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro — have happened almost daily.

Reporting from São Paulo, Lourdes ...

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In Calif., Hundreds March To Protest Fatal Police Shooting Of Boy

Friday, October 25, 2013

For the third day in a row, hundreds of demonstrators took the streets of Santa Rosa, Calif. to protest the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy.

As The San Francisco Chronicle reports, Andy Lopez was walking to a friend's house on Tuesday to return a toy rifle. When police ...

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JPMorgan Chase Settles With Housing Regulator For $5.1 Billion

Friday, October 25, 2013

JPMorgan Chase announced that it reached a $5.1 billion settlement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which is a conservator for the mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

The Wall Street Journal explains:

"The pact with the Federal Housing Finance Agency includes $4 billion to settle a ...

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United Slapped With $1.1 Million Fine Over Tarmac Delays

Friday, October 25, 2013

The Department of Transportation has slapped United Airlines with a $1.1 million fine for lengthy tarmac delays at Chicago O'Hare International Airport in July of 2012.

In a press release, the DOT said the fine was the largest issued since it instituted a rule that penalizes U.S. carriers for ...

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Case Of 'Little Maria' Is Solved, Bulgarian Romas Are Her Parents

Friday, October 25, 2013

A DNA test has confirmed that the biological parents of Little Maria are a Roma couple living in Bulgaria.

Maria, you might remember, was taken from Christos Salis and his wife, Eleftheria Dimopoulou, because police said the child was too fair to be the Greek Roma couple's daughter. The two ...

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Groups Linked To Kochs Agree To Pay $1 Million Fine

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Two secretive Arizona-based groups with links to the Koch brothers have agreed to pay $1 million in fines and admitted to making millions of unlawful intermediary contributions during the 2012 California campaign season.

NPR's Ina Jaffe filed this report for our Newscast unit:

"The two non-profits linked to industrialists ...

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SEE: White House Turns Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness

Thursday, October 24, 2013

The White House and the Naval Observatory were bathed in pink this evening. Just take a look:

In a blog post, Senior White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett explained they lit up the presidential and vice-presidential residences in pink in "honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the millions of ...

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Guy On Train Live Tweets Former CIA Chief's On-Background Interview

Thursday, October 24, 2013

You'd think he'd be more careful: The man who was once responsible for the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency was giving a background interview during a train ride, but he didn't notice that a fellow passenger was live tweeting the highlights.

In truth, we didn't learn any ...

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Twitter Sets Its IPO Price, Valuing Company At Around $11 Billion

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Twitter announced today that it plans on selling 70 million shares at $17 to $20 each, during its initial public offering.

Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal did the math and it means that the company is looking to raise about $1.4 billion and values itself at about $11 billion ...

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Guardian: U.S. Monitored Calls Of 35 Foreign Leaders

Thursday, October 24, 2013

The United States spy agency monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders, The Guardian reports today, based on a classified memo given to the paper by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The paper reports that the NSA encouraged others in the U.S. government to share their contact numbers ...

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