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The group wants to trade an American engineer abducted two years ago for an Afghan drug lord imprisoned in the U.S.

The new owner of Politico, Axel Springer, has a decades-long record of bending journalistic ethics for right-wing causes.

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Why terrorists will welcome Biden’s counterterrorism strategy.

A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed?