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Not going anywhere: Afghan President Hamid Karzai shows indelible ink on his finger before he casts his vote. Zalmay Rassoul has the backing of Mr. Karzai's clan and political machinery.

Secret U.S. assessments show Afghanistan not ready to govern on own

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

"The new Afghan government will have to make difficult political decisions both to increase revenue and to reduce expenditures," said Jarrett Blanc, deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. (DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE)

U.S. fears Afghan services may be cut as corruption sharply reduces customs taxes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. missing out on big opportunities in Africa, Liberian official says

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Her own words: In her final days as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton tells a Senate committee that she saw no specific security requests for Benghazi and "I wasn't involved in the talking points process." (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton all but erased from tragic story of the attack in Benghazi

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

House follows Senate in passing bill to bar Iran’s U.N. pick

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Congress to Iran: Ambassador’s application denied

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: State Dept. ignored key 1999 recommendations

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Judge slaps State Department over Blackwater

By PETE YOST - Associated Press

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HARPER: Despite lousy reviews, media give Hillary Clinton a pass

By Christopher Harper

US officials reject Rubio claim about CIA report

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

People gathered near of a barricade with razor wires at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2014. Outside the Donetsk building, a barricade of car tires and razor wire was built up to thwart police from retaking it. Interfax cited police in Donetsk as saying one armed group fired into the air and attempted to seize the regional state television broadcaster Monday but retreated after police and guards in the building also fired warning shots into the air. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevych)

Kerry to meet with top diplomats on Ukraine

By JOSH LEDERMAN and LARA JAKES - Associated Press

Students gather behind a business looking for a Internet signal for their smart phones in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The U.S. Agency for International Development masterminded the creation of a &quot;Cuban Twitter,&quot; a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned. The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. Its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them. In 2012, the text messaging service vanished as mysteriously as it appeared. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest

By DESMOND BUTLER and JACK GILLUM and ALBERTO ARCE - Associated Press

Hillary Clinton (The Washington Times/File)

State Dept. misplaced $6B under Hillary Clinton: IG report

By Adam Kredo — The Washington Free Beacon

Police: NYC officer detained in India over bullets

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks as she delivers the keynote address at the launch of the U.S. Global Development Lab, an initiative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), on Thursday April 3, 2014 in New York. Congress and USAID are headed for a showdown over the Obama administration's creation of a Cuban Twitter communications network to undermine the communist government in Cuba. USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah is expected to testify on Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations State Department and foreign operations subcommittee. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

ISTOOK: Benghazi cover-up was more to protect Hillary than Obama

By Ernest Istook

Students gather behind a business looking for a Internet signal for their smart phones in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The U.S. Agency for International Development masterminded the creation of a &quot;Cuban Twitter,&quot; a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned. The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. Its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them. In 2012, the text messaging service vanished as mysteriously as it appeared. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

White House defends ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest

By DESMOND BUTLER and JACK GILLUM and ALBERTO ARCE - Associated Press

American diplomats being held hostage by Iranian terrorists at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran from 1979-1980 Associated Press photo

BRUCE: Confusing an Iranian terrorist with a diplomat

By Tammy Bruce

Guzzardi ballot challenge to resume Thursday

By PETER JACKSON - Associated Press

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Lax guidance feeds Afghan corruption; report says billions in aid wasted

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

**FILE** In this Nov. 9, 1979, file photo, one of the hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran is displayed to the crowd, blindfolded and with his hands bound, outside the embassy. Fifty-two of the hostages endured 444 days of captivity. (AP Photo/File)

U.S. troubled by Iran U.N. nominee with hostage crisis ties

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times