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The Obama administration, anxious to deny al Qaida's most dangerous offshoot more space in which to flourish, urged Yemen's wounded president on Monday to immediately step aside and clear the way for a transfer of power aimed at averting all-out civil war. » read more
The mission sounded improbable: Could a high-profile Iraqi politician draw attention to Bahrain's crackdown on its Shiite Muslim majority by sailing a cargo ship loaded with Iraqi doctors, nurses and medicine into the unfriendly waters of the small Persian Gulf kingdom? » read more
Andres Oppenheimer: There is nothing astonishing about President Barack Obama's Republican critics claiming that he is taking U.S. Hispanics for a ride on immigration issues. What's surprising is that some of Obama's closest Democratic allies are beginning to say the same thing.
Chimpanzees at a federal primate facility are at the center of an impassioned debate between the National Institutes of Health and the animal-rights community.
A McClatchy probe reveals mistakes by an analyst at the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Lab, near Atlanta, undermined hundreds of criminal cases.
The U.S. program to spend billions of dollars on Afghanistan's facilities is failing. Corruption, nepotism and mismanagement hobble the reconstruction.
Read McClatchy coverage of Afghanistan and South Asia from correspondents in Kabul and Islamabad, as well as our national security team in Washington.
Scientists studying water contamination at Camp Lejeune have learned of another source of leaking fuel near a drinking well that served thousands of Marines and their families.
The state of Alaska on Monday announced the time and place for release of 24,199 pages of Sarah Palin's emails as Friday morning in Juneau. The long-delayed release will be available to media organizations and others paying for paper copies. But Juneau Sen. Dennis Egan is pushing for the state to also ship public review copies to Anchorage and Fairbanks. » read more
Syria and Israel traded accusations Monday over the death toll in Sunday's shootings along the border here as Israeli troops prepared for what pro-Palestinian demonstrators were promising would be another attempt to storm across the border Tuesday. » read more
For the second time in less than a year, the White House is looking for a new head of the Council of Economic Advisers after Austan Goolsbee said late Monday that he's leaving the post to return to academia. His departure was announced just days after a dismal government jobs report and other indications that the recovery is faltering. » read more
Bahrain's reformist Crown Prince headed to Washington Monday for top-level talks, official news media in the Gulf state stepped up a drumbeat of anti-American attacks, some even accusing of the U.S. administration of colluding with opposition leaders they claim are trying to overthrow the state. » read more
McClatchy reporters are reviewing hundreds of thousands of documents provided by WikiLeaks, revealing insights on U.S. diplomacy around the world, the drug war, the Middle East, and the prison at Guantanamo (right), among other topics. Read our ongoing coverage here.