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With the season threatening to disappear, Damian Lillard decided it was time to shoot, even though he was so far away that his foot touched the logo near Midcourt. A few minutes later, he threw his body on the floor at the same spot, and came up with a steal …

WASHINGTON – The man appointed by President Donald Trump to lead the U.S. global media agency seven Wednesday executives at the organization late Wednesday in a move that a former House Democrat called a bid to purge “government-funded media outlets.” The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, rep. Eliot …

The Trump administration has seized the cargo of four tankers it was aiming to transport Iranian fuel to Venezuela, officials said on Thursday as it launched its campaign of maximum pressure against the two heavily sanctioned allies. Last month, federal prosecutors in Washington filed a civil defiance complaint alleging that …

Authorities in Afghanistan on Thursday ordered an investigation into a video circulating online that showed a group of Afghan troops occupying the bodies of Taliban fighters. The two-minute clip, which quickly went viral on social media, jumped ahead of expected peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban following President Ashraf …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense said it was investigating a video circulated on social media on Thursday that men in Afghan army uniforms showed changing bodies of Taliban fighters. The intensification of violence on the eve of the peace talks to end the war, with fighters on both …