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It was a blazing hot July afternoon, and the condemned were led in irons from the Washington penitentiary about 1 p.m.They passed the pre-dug graves, and the stack of gun crates that would serve as their coffins, and climbed the steps of the wooden gallows that had been built overnight.Read full article >>

Rain and lightning is expected to taper off by around 5:30 p.m.

Social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube would be required to report videos and other content posted by suspected terrorists to federal authorities under legislation approved this past week by the Senate Intelligence Committee.Read full article >>

Matt “The Megatoad” Stonie didn’t eat the most hot dogs ever at the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on Saturday, but he ate enough to top eight-time hot dog eating champion Joey “Jaws” Chestnut. While Chestnut still holds the record, having downed 69 dogs and buns in last year’s event, Stonie, 23, finished first in this year’s contest by scarfing down 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Tucked in a tough corner of Europe, Athens has been battling foreign invasions at least as long as records can tell the tale. So as this deeply divided nation prepares for a Sunday vote about whether to swallow more painful austerity from Europe, the consequences of the outcome run far beyond whether Greece will receive a new financial lifeline.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Tucked in a tough corner of Europe, Athens has been battling foreign invasions at least as long as records can tell the tale. So as this deeply divided nation prepares for a Sunday vote about whether to swallow more painful austerity from Europe, the consequences of the outcome run far beyond whether Greece will receive a new financial lifeline.Read full article >>

VANCOUVER — The date is seared in Abby Wambach’s mind, a daily cue reminding her and the rest of the U.S. women’s national soccer team of what they missed out on four summers ago in Frankfurt.“July 17, 2011,” she said pointedly.Read full article >>

VIENNA — The head of the international nuclear watchdog group — a day after returning from Tehran — said Saturday that a report documenting Iran’s past nuclear activities could be completed by the end of the year.Read full article >>

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s military says it achieved a major strategic victory over Islamist militants hiding in the Shawal Valley, a thickly forested area bordering Afghanistan thought to be among the last few refuges here for al-Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban.Read full article >>

(As we celebrate Independence Day, I thought I would post a couple excerpts about the Declaration of Independence from my forthcoming book, Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Sovereignty of the People (which is now available for pre-order on Amazon). This passage of the book appears after the one I posted here.)Read full article >>

KABUL — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned Saturday that a calendar-based pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan as outlined by the Obama administration would be a serious mistake, emboldening the Taliban and allowing the country to once again become a stronghold for militants.Read full article >>

It's July 4, and today we celebrate our freedom to be big. That's because, if you look at the data the general philosophy in the United States seems to be "bigger is better."  And over the past several decades, Americans have supersized our sodas, our refrigerators, our big-box retailers and ourselves -- even our feet have gotten larger.Read full article >>

Louisiana Gov. BobbyJindal speaks to members of the press after a State Dining Room meeting with President Obama at the White House on Feb. 25, 2013. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Bobby Jindal lives in a very interesting and unique political space.Read full article >>

In the 71 days since she first saw her doctor about a suspicious lump in her right breast, Ricki Harvey has had 40 appointments about her medical care. First came the mammogram, the ultrasound and the biopsy. Then meetings with the surgical oncologist, the radiation oncologist, the general oncologist, the social worker, the geneticist and the physical therapist. Then her twice-weekly chemotherapy infusions.Read full article >>

This is becoming another Summer of the Shark. The last one was in 2001, when a series of shark attacks on the East Coast combined with a period of generally slow news to whip up a spasm of shark mania.Read full article >>

THE AMERICAN effort to achieve independence from Britain was not expected to succeed, but it did, with some timely help from friends abroad. The new country’s grand experiment in representative self-government was not given much of a chance, either, but it has survived. The idea of a nation — not an empire, but a nation — melded from many nationalities, ethnic groups and religious faiths was inconceivable to most of the world, but it has been realized over the 239 years since independence was boldly declared in Philadelphia. Читать дальше...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — On Monday, Maysoon Musa rose early for morning prayers, then helped harvest squash in the family fields. She acted “perfectly normal,” said her mother, who described her daughter as “just a quiet girl, as shy as a chicken.”Read full article >>

ATHENS — Dueling rallies of tens of thousands of people apiece took over central Athens on Friday evening, with demonstrators making their final push before a referendum on Sunday that has passionately divided this flailing nation between those terrified Greece will lose its place in Europe and others determined to transform the continent at all costs.Read full article >>

There are aspects of the American Revolution that are neither well known nor appreciated. To be sure, the signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave and great men, as ex-slave, abolitionist and fiery orator Frederick Douglass acknowledged in his July 5, 1852, speech in Rochester, N.Y. But Douglass, noting slavery’s continued existence 76 years after the first Independence Day, advised the crowd: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” Read full article >>

The federal government can start vetting applicants for security clearances on paper while the database for background investigations is offline for the next several weeks, authorities announced late Thursday.Read full article >>

BRADFORD, England — When three young men left behind the gentle West Yorkshire hills to blow themselves up on London trains and buses 10 years ago next week, the astonishment felt by people in this multiethnic area of northern England soon gave way to a desire to come together.Read full article >>

BRADFORD, England — When three young men left behind the gentle West Yorkshire hills to blow themselves up on London trains and buses 10 years ago next week, the astonishment felt by people in this multiethnic area of northern England soon gave way to a desire to come together.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Dueling rallies of tens of thousands of people apiece took over central Athens Friday evening, with demonstrators making their final push before a referendum on Sunday that has passionately divided this flailing nation between those terrified Greece will lose its place in Europe and others determined to transform the continent at all costs. Read full article >>