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As ‘Net Neutrality’ Vote Nears, Some Brace For a Long Fight

NEW YORK — As the federal government prepares to unravel sweeping net-neutrality rules that guaranteed equal access to the internet, advocates of the regulations are bracing for a long fight.

Reuters Demands Myanmar Release Its 2 Journalists

BANGKOK — Reuters news agency called on Myanmar to immediately release its two journalists who were arrested for possessing "important secret papers" obtained from two policemen who had worked in Rakhine state, where violence widely blamed on security forces has forced more than 625,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.

‘The Goonies,’ ‘Titanic’ Added to National Film Registry

NEW YORK — A band of misfits known as the Goonies, a sinking ship, some baseball ghosts and the unrelenting New York cop are being added to the prestigious National Film Registry.

Monkey Selfies, Eclipse, Bitcoin, Lauer Top Google in 2017

SAN FRANCISCO — Matt Lauer. Bitcoin. DACA. Monkey selfies. Jeremy Lin's hair. Do-it-yourself eclipse glasses. Tom Petty's death. National anthem protests in the NFL. And "Cash Me Outside."
An investor looks at the Chinese market index in 2017 at a brokerage in Beijing, China. Photo: Ng Han Guan / Associated Press

Asian Stocks Mixed Ahead of Fed Rate Announcement

BEIJING — Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday following overnight gains on Wall Street as investors looked ahead to a likely U.S. interest rate hike.

Review: ‘The Last Jedi’ a Welcome Disturbance in the Force

A welcome disturbance in the Force, Rian Johnson's "The Last Jedi" is, by wide measure, the trippiest, scrappiest and most rule-breaking "Star Wars" adventure yet.

Sold North Korean Brides Face Hard Choices in China

WESTERN LIAONING PROVINCE, China — The North Korean woman drives a motorbike slowly down a narrow lane shaded by tall corn to the farmhouse where she lives with the disabled Chinese man who bought her.

Some of Facebook’s Early Friends Now Its Sharpest Critics

NEW YORK — Some of Facebook’s former friends are starting to express some serious doubts about the social network they helped create.
A 2005 file photo of former U.S. Army deserter to North Korea, Charles Jenkins, together with his daughters Mika, rear left, and Brinda at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo. Photo: Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press

US Deserter to NKorea Who Married Japan Abductee Dies 

TOKYO - Charles Jenkins, a U.S Army deserter to North Korea who married a Japanese abductee and lived in Japan after their release, has...

Pipe Bomb Strapped to Man Explodes in NYC Subway, Injuring 4

NEW YORK — A man with a pipe bomb strapped to him set off the crude device in the subway near Times Square on Monday, injuring the suspect and three other people at the height of the morning rush hour.

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