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The investigations into last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris broadened Tuesday, with authorities casting a wider net for suspects and seeking clues on the funding networks of the Islamist gunmen and other presumed allies.

The web being sketched out by investigators expanded to Bulgaria, where authorities held a French citizen with possible links to one of the brothers whose gunfire began the days of bloodshed.

The Israeli authorities closed off all access to a contested holy site in the Old City here on Thursday for the first time in years, a step that a Palestinian spokesman denounced as amounting to “a declaration of war.”

The Israeli authorities closed off all access to a contested holy site in the Old City here on Thursday for the first time in years, a step that a Palestinian spokesman denounced as amounting to “a declaration of war.”

Democrats are still struggling to come to terms with the brief, but raucous, floor fight that erupted Wednesday at their convention over the restoration of references to God and Jerusalem as Israel's capital to the official platform.
Delegates who opposed the move were grumbling about being steamrolled by party leaders. And those party leaders were giving conflicting stories about what actually happened.