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WASHINGTON — Passengers flying to the United States from foreign airports will undergo more rigorous screening of their baggage and electronic devices, but they will be allowed to bring laptops and tablets onto planes in their carry-on bags, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday. After months of discussions with aviation officials in Europe about banning large electronic devices, homeland security officials ultimately abandoned the idea i

The parents of Austin Tice, the journalist and former Marine from Texas who was abducted in Syria in August 2012, said on Wednesday that they had reason to believe that their son was alive. “We wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you if we didn’t — weren’t completely positive that Austin’s going to come home safely,” his father, Marc Tice, told Lester Holt in an interview on “NBC Nightly News.” Debra Tice and her husband, who also spoke with Matt Lauer on “Today” on Wednesday morn

A young asylum seeker who was tortured in his native Venezuela no longer faces deportation after an immigration judge in Miami ended removal proceedings against him this week. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the man, Marco Coello, 22, in April when he appear

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s imprisoned former president and her spy chief, and improbably demanded that its southern adversary extradite them. The execution orders, which the North said could be carried out anytime, anywhere and by any means, amounted to an assassination decree against the imprisoned former president, Park Geun-hye, and Lee Byung-ho, wh

HOUSTON — The Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, the black woman who was found hanging in a Waller County jail cell in 2015 and whose death became a symbol of the national debate over the treatment of blacks by the police, was cleared on Wednesday of the only criminal charge he faced in the case. The trooper, Brian T. Encinia, was indicted last year by a Waller County grand jury on a perjury charge, in connection with his description of the arrest of Ms. Bland, whom he pulled over in July 2015 in a routine traffic stop in Prairie View, northwest of Houston.

It was an outlandish attack on Venezuela’s centers of power: A police helicopter swooped down from a clear sky while someone inside dropped grenades on the Supreme Court and opened fire on the Interior Ministry. The rogue police officers inside the craft waved a banner that referred to an article in the Constitution that allows for civil uprisings against tyrants. But if

Twice in the past month, Ukraine. The N.S.A. has kept quiet, not acknowledging its role in developing the weapons. White House officials have deflected many questions, and responded to others by arguing that the focus should be on the attackers themselves, not the manufacturer of their weapons. But the silence is wearing thin for victims of the assaults, as a series of escalating attacks using N.S.A.

KIEV, Ukraine — The day started like most for Roman N. Klimenko, an accountant in Kiev who had just settled in at his desk, typing at a computer keyboard and drinking coffee.

SYDNEY, Australia — Pope Francis’ top advisers, has been charged with sexual assault, the police in the Australian state of Victoria said on Thursday. The prelate, Cardinal George Pell, became the highest-ranking Vatican official in recent years to face criminal charges involving accusations of sexual offenses.

President Trump may not have meant to, but on Wednesday he seemed to endorse a longer reach for the tax collector. In an angry tweet directed at Amazon, Mr. Trump chastised the e-commerce giant for “not paying internet taxes (which they should).” At the moment, there is no “internet tax,” and it is not clear exactly what the president might have had in mind. (The comment was interpolated in a declaration about “The #AmazonWashingtonPost.” Mr.