President Obama said that he and other world leaders have offered Iran an “extraordinarily reasonable deal” that will test whether the leadership of the Islamic nation is serious about at last resolving the dispute over its nuclear program.
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Obama Says Nuclear Deal Offered to Iran Tests Whether It Is Serious - NYTimes... - 0 views
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over the next month or so, we’re going to be able to determine whether or not their system is able to accept what would be an extraordinarily reasonable deal
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The negotiators have been talking about an agreement that would limit Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium to the point that, in theory, it would take it a year to “break out” and create enough fuel for a bomb if it violated the terms, to be verified by international inspectors.
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BBC News - Russia relations prickly, Philip Hammond predicts - 0 views
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The UK and Russia will continue to have a "prickly relationship" with no clear change in Vladimir Putin's intentions in Ukraine, the foreign secretary says.
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But he added: "It has made the decision that it wants to be in a strategic competition with the West, with Europe. It doesn't any longer see us as partners; it sees us as competitors or even adversaries, and that means that we're going to have a difficult, prickly relationship with Russia probably for some time to come."
How Congress is Cutting Science Out of Science Policy - 0 views
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The bill's impact dramatically affects the fundamental regulatory process, so that nearly every type of protective regulation is vulnerable. As a result, the RAA is opposed by groups who advocate on a variety of issues, ranging from consumer safety and financial reform to food safety and worker rights.
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Years pass between the time a rule is proposed and its implementation.
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You might want to call this the first in what we expect to be a long list of "zombie bills" — retreads of bills which failed to become law in previous years, but have been resurrected one more time. These legislative proposals harm science-informed policy, jeopardizing public health, safety and the environment.
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Obama to Senate Dems: 'I'm going to play offense' - Manu Raju - POLITICO - 0 views
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The president said he’s prepared to veto hostile legislation, including an Iran sanctions package.
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Obama vowed to defend his agenda against Republicans in Congress, promised to stand firm against GOP efforts to dismantle his agenda and called on his Democratic colleagues to help sustain his expected vetoes.
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At the meeting, Obama, who has rarely used his veto pen in his six years in office, signaled he would do so repeatedly, including on GOP-sponsored legislation to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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House law enforcement chief monitoring terror threat - CNN.com - 0 views
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"The public, and in particular the Congressional community, was never in danger during the investigation. The United States Capitol Police (USCP) remains in close coordination with the FBI and my office continues to monitor the situation," Irving writes.
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The email comes just the day after the FBI successfully foiled a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol
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"The real weapons of mass destruction today are unemployed 22-year-olds who fall for this radical ideology and we've got to figure out how to counter that," he said on CNN's "New Day."
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Russia faces wave of bankruptcies - Jan. 12, 2015 - 0 views
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Anatoly Aksakov, president of Russia's regional banking association and deputy chairman of parliament's financial markets committee, said firms were running out of cash. "Bankers believe that keeping the situation as it stands will cause a wave of bankruptcies, not only credit institutions but also a number of businesses and companies,"
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The impact of Western sanctions imposed over Russia's actions in Ukraine has sparked a cash crunch by shutting many companies out of international funding markets.
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"Banks may need up to ... $45 billion in capital in 2015 to support lending and absorb credit losses, and another ... $11.5 billion to address foreign exchange valuation losses," wrote credit specialist Tatiana Tchembarova.
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Starting Friday, U.S. Will Ease Restrictions on Travel to Cuba - 0 views
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They had to justify their trips to a government agency, apply for licenses, sign up with a firm organizing “people to people” exchanges, or circumvent the law altogether by flying somewhere else first.
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While ordinary tourism remains banned by law, new rules put in place by President Obama will make it easier for Americans to visit the island than it has been for most of the last half-century
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The rules will usher in a new era of contact between neighbors that have been estranged for longer than most of their citizens have been alive.
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BBC News - Why did my grandfather translate Mein Kampf? - 0 views
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Whenever I tell anyone that my Irish grandfather translated Hitler's Mein Kampf, the first question tends to be, "Why did he do that?" Quickly followed by, "Was he a Nazi?"
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"You know a group of Americans is working on a translation right now, so you can't stop it coming out," she told him. "You know my husband has done an accurate and fair translation - an excellent translation… so why not hand over the manuscript?"
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The book, bought in 1939 in the UK, was seemingly taken by British admirers as they visited the Fuehrer's Alpine retreat. The photograph has somewhat comical annotations in the form of three pencilled arrow
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BBC News - Ukraine conflict: Shell hits bus 'killing 12' in Buhas - 0 views
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A shell has hit a bus in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding many more, Ukraine's military says.
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In a statement, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko condemned the attack, blaming the rebels and those "who is arming them and inspiring to commit bloody crimes".
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But following talks in Berlin on Monday, foreign ministers for the four countries said that "further work needs to be done" before a summit could be held.
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Claiming Paris Massacre as Its Own, Al Qaeda Seizes Spotlight - 0 views
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Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen formally claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the deadly assault a week ago at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people, saying that the target was chosen by the Qaeda leadership and referring to the attackers as “two heroes of Islam.”
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If the claim of direct responsibility holds up, it would make the attacks in France the most deadly strike planned and financed by Al Qaeda on Western soil since the transit bombings in London in 2005 that killed 52 people.
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An English version of the claim, distributed online, showed a chilling image of the Eiffel Tower in Paris seeming to dissolve into a wisp of smoke. The headline reads, “Vengeance for the Prophet: A Message Regarding the Blessed Battle of Paris.”
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With Crime Down, U.S. Faces Legacy of a Violent Age - 0 views
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The crime rate has dropped significantly in the U.S. from the 90's. Homicides, robberies, and assaults have all decreased. This could be due to the increased police force. However, this has recently cause controversy due to the recent police killings. Interestingly enough, crime has dropped in many other places in the world too.
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