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Wiretap: An upside in the unbearable horror of ISIS

The latest ISIS atrocity has brought about that rare thing -- a sense of unity, and joint revulsion, among the many rival factions in...

Keefe: New Years

Udall tries to hold on to Senate seat in tight fight...

Efforts in the past two weeks in the dead-heat U.S. Senate race have focused on getting voters to mail in ballots and now to drop them directly at polling centers. It's all about turn out now.

Wiretap: The astonishing horror of ISIS captivity

In a terrifyingly sad and astonishing story in the New York Times, Rukmini Callimachi tells of the lives lived by the hostages in the days they were held by ISIS.

Wiretap: We designed the chemical weapons we were looking for in...

C.J. Chivers reports on the pre-1992 chemical arms buried in Iraq. They were used in Iraq's war with Iran and then found new victims between 2004 and 2011: American and Iraqi troops.

In last-stretch Pueblo face-off, Udall, Gardner fire up supporters

In Pueblo, the moderator left it to the candidates to hold each other accountable. It didn't work. Boos and hisses abounded after every non-answer.

Wiretap: Hong Kong scary

This is a big deal. Hong King citizens fear promises made to them nearly 20 years ago about democratic rights by the central government in Beijing are being broken.

Wiretap: We’re no-vote bombing, which is just fine with election-year Congress

We don't know what the plan, what the risks are or what the costs might be. But, hey, we'll think about that after November.

Wiretap: U.S. leans on Kurds to save country Kurds want desperately...

America wants the Kurds to do two incompatible things: One, to save Iraq from ISIS and, two, to then resist seceding from Iraq.

Wiretap: Ground war gallop

Republicans are galloping toward a ground war in Syria and Iraq, Dana Milbank writes in The Washington Post.