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‘Cuban Twitter’ fallout found relief in FOIA’s glacial pace

WASHINGTON (AP) – As U.S. officials dealt with the fallout of the government’s once-secret “Cuban Twitter” program, they had one thing on their side: notorious delays in the federal Freedom of Information Act. The government didn’t have copies of the documents, which formed the basis of an Associated Press investigation …

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6th arrest in Belgium over attacks, new raid in Brussels

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian authorities have detained a sixth person suspected of ties to the Brussels bombings, a group that includes the last known fugitive of last year’s Paris attacks and a Swedish fighter with possible links to attacks in both Brussels and Paris, prosecutors said Saturday. The arrests could …

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Polish workers in UK worry about possibility of Brexit

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Hundreds of thousands of people whose personal fates hinge on whether Britain leaves the European Union or stays don’t even have a say in the matter: Polish immigrants, a community so numerous that Polish has become Britain’s second most-spoken language. When Poland and many other countries …

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