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Liz Cheney, a former member of the partisan January 6 Committee, said Monday that she should not go to jail for allegedly destroying 117 of the panel’s files. President-elect Donald Trump accused members of the partisan panel on Sunday of destroying committee evidence that he said exonerated him from allegations of wrongdoing. The accusation came after Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who led the House Administration Committee’s oversight investigation, said in January his computer forensic investigators discovered that 117 files went missing, presumably deleted or encrypted by the panel’s members.

Abdul Karim Tunda, one of India's most wanted terrorists, and a key player behind the terror attacks on Mumbai trains, is living in Pakistan, intelligence sources say. Amid the confusion over his reported - and then denied - arrest in Kenya, a senior intelligence official said, "We have specific information that Tunda was among the planners of the Mumbai blasts." Nearly 200 people were killed and hundreds were injured when powerful bombs exploded one after another in first class compartments of Mumbai's local trains on July 11. Senior intelligence officials say Tunda, 63, was hiding in Pakistan, pretending to be...

While most people around the world are allowed to openly mourn the loss of Pope John Paul II, we are reminded that the world's most populous country forbids Catholics to worship the Church in public. China did not send a delegation to the Vatican for the funeral. Catholics in China are forced to swear loyalty to the Communist Party rather than the Vatican: "We pray for him alone at home. It is impossible to do anything in public because the Communist Party will not allow it," says a woman identified only as Maria. "They restrict our activities. They won't let...