CONGRESS-BERGDAHL

WASHINGTON — House Republicans claim the Obama administration misled Congress about the effort to release five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. 

ANTI-MUSLIM BACKLASH

NEW YORK — =A severed pig's head was left outside a mosque in Philadelphia. An Islamic center in Florida was defaced. A Sikh temple in California was vandalized by someone who mistook it for a mosque and left graffiti that included a profane reference to the Islamic State terror group. Advocacy groups believe there has been a spike in anti-Muslim incidents across the United States in recent weeks. 

VENEZUELA-ELECTIONS

CARACAS, Venezuela — It's one of the opposition's favorite tropes: that Venezuela's socialist government is a dictatorship that will stop at nothing to stay in power. But when crunch time came, President Nicolas Maduro proved critics wrong in their fear he would commit electoral fraud and accepted the vote result. 

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ISLAMIC STATE-US COMMANDOS

WASHINGTON — The commando force that President Barack Obama is dispatching to Iraq to conduct clandestine raids against the Islamic State does not fit neatly into a picture of the U.S. military strategy for defeating the extremist army. 

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CHICAGO POLICE-EMANUEL

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologizes for the 2014 shooting of a black teenager during a special City Council meeting and promised a "complete and total" reform to restore trust in the police.