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Rescuers of the wild horses, checkbooks in hand, engage in bidding wars with 'kill buyers' at federal auctions who seek the animals for slaughterhouses. Photos
Michael Hastings' 2010 portrait of Gen. Stanley McChrystal led the former top commander in Afghanistan to resign.
After three decades in which borrowing costs mostly have declined steadily to rock-bottom levels, the long-term path of interest rates is headed up, experts say.
The Afghan administration suspends key security talks, apparently without warning, a day before U.S. officials were to meet with the Taliban for informal talks.
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