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Iran nuclear talks may be extended

Iran nuclear talks may be extended


Iran nuclear talks may be extended

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 10:15 AM PST

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and US Secretary of State John Kerry speak during a joint statement at the Quai d'Orsay Foreign Affairs ministry in ParisA deadline for resolving Iran's nuclear program fast approaches.


Iraq, Turkey vow to work together against IS group

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 10:11 AM PST

An investigator works at the site of a suicide attack in Irbil, capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq that took place near the city's historic citadel on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. The bomber struck in the heart of the northern Iraqi Kurdish city, killing several people, according to initial reports in local Kurdish media.(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister said on Thursday that his country and neighboring Turkey have agreed on closer security and intelligence cooperation in the face of the threat posed by the Islamic State group.


The CIA wants to destroy thousands of internal emails covering spy operations and other activities

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 06:43 AM PST

BUSH CIAA CIA plan 'could allow for the destruction of crucial documentary evidence...'


Mary Landrieu against the GOP wave

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 01:36 AM PST

On the morning after the Senate rejected approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the bills's sponsor, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, walks through a corridor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Landrieu had hoped that passage of the Keystone bill would improve the chances of retaining her Senate seat in a runoff Dec. 6 against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The Louisiana senator's every move has garnered unusual amounts of attention.


Matt Bai: Uber, Gruber and underlying truth

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 01:47 PM PST

Uber and GruberSocial media routinely ruins good reputations by magnifying a few clumsy words beyond all proportion. Except, you know, when it doesn't really do that at all.


Texas judge approves execution of mentally ill man

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 09:34 AM PST

The Wynne Unit in Huntsville, one of the seven prison units in Walker County, Texas, on May 21, 2013Washington (AFP) - A Texas judge on Wednesday refused to postpone the scheduled execution of a convicted killer who suffers from mental illness and is set to face lethal injection on December 3.


Oscar-winning director dies at 83

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 09:41 AM PST

Entertainment icon Mike Nichols has died at age 83Mike Nichols, the director of matchless versatility who brought fierce wit, caustic social commentary and wicked absurdity to such films, TV and stage hits as "The Graduate," ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," ''Angels in America" and "Monty Python's Spamalot," has died. He was 83.


Gunman killed by police after FSU shooting

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 10:32 AM PST

Police investigate a shooting at Strozier Library on Florida State campus on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)Three students were also wounded in the shooting at a campus library.


Police arrest protesters as St. Louis awaits grand jury decision

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 09:54 AM PST

By Scott Malone FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Police arrested five people overnight after they tried to block a street in a protest calling for a grand jury to charge a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen in August. A few dozen demonstrators, some chanting "Indict that cop," gathered outside the city police station late on Wednesday in sub-freezing temperatures. They were faced by officers in riot gear and the arrests were the first in about a week. ...

Obama seeks to build Congress support for immigration changes

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 09:19 AM PST

Angela Navarro, an undocumented Honduran-born immigrant with a deportation order, embraces her husband, Ermer, after moving into West Kensington Ministry Church with her family, which includes two U.S. born children, in PhiladelphiaBy Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Republican leader warned President Barack Obama on Thursday that he will have a fight on his hands if he goes ahead with a sweeping program to ease the threat of deportations for millions of undocumented immigrants. Obama, in a speech to be broadcast at 8 p.m. ET, is set to lay out plans for using his executive authority in ways that could allow as many as 5 million undocumented people to come out of the shadows and into American society. ...


Gunman killed, three students shot in Florida university library

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 10:17 AM PST

Crime scene tape is seen in front of the library at Florida State University, in TallahasseeBy Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) - A gunman wounded three Florida State University students, one critically, early Thursday when he opened fire in a library where hundreds of students were studying for exams, authorities said. Officers confronted the attacker soon after 12:30 a.m. near the entrance to Florida State's Strozier Library in the latest of a string of shootings on U.S. campuses. Police said they ordered him to drop his weapon, then fatally shot him when he fired on them. ...


Two children shot dead in New Jersey home, two family members hurt

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 10:21 AM PST

Police vehicle is parked in front of the scene of a multiple shooting inside a home in TabernacleBy Daniel Kelley TABERNACLE N.J. (Reuters) - Two children were shot dead and two of their family members were critically wounded by gunfire at a home in a rural New Jersey town near Philadelphia, state police said on Thursday. A boy and a girl were killed in the shooting, State Police Captain Stephen Jones said in a press conference outside the house in Tabernacle, New Jersey, where the incident took place. He did not identify a suspect and the names and ages of the victims were not released. The victims included a woman and a second boy who were injured. ...


Immigrants wait, hope, plan for Obama order

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 12:41 AM PST

Attorney Alex Galvez poses for a photo in his office in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Immigrants in the country illegally already are flooding attorneys' offices with calls to see if they can qualify under President Barack Obama's yet-to-be-announced plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants from deportation. Galvez, an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles, said he's going to need to add phone lines to keep up with the demand. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Immigrants in the country illegally already are flooding attorneys' offices with calls to see if they can qualify under President Barack Obama's yet-to-be-announced plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants from deportation.


Kasich steals show at governors' meeting

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 04:29 PM PST

Ohio Governor John Kasich speaks to supporters at the Ohio Republican Party celebration Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)The wily 62-year-old former congressman butts heads with Wisconsin's Scott Walker during a heated exchange.


Racial divide in U.S. arrest rates is 'staggering,' study finds

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 10:43 AM PST

Ferguson awaits Grand Jury decisionAccording to USA Today — which compared arrests reported by local police departments to the FBI in 2011 and 2012 with data from the 2010 U.S. census — at least 1,581 police departments arrest black people at a higher rate than Ferguson, Mo., where blacks are arrested nearly three times more than people of other races.


Top Obama aide won’t rule out unilateral easing of Cuba policy

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 03:37 PM PST

U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken speaks on Syria at the White House in WashingtonA year after President Barack Obama said the United States must "update our policies" on Cuba, his pick for the No. 2 job at the State Department, Tony Blinken, refused to rule out unilateral steps by the president in the next two years — provided Alan Gross goes free.


'Ready for Hillary' super PAC winding down

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 12:32 PM PST

Hillary Clinton departs St. Ignatius Loyola church following fashion designer de la Renta's memorial service in the Manhattan borough of New YorkThe super-PAC Ready for Hillary, which launched in late 2012 to urge Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016 and is described by some as a "shadow operation" for her would-be campaign, is coming to an end, Politico reports.


NASA simulation shows a year in the life of Earth’s CO2

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 11:31 AM PST

NASA: A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2NASA scientists created an ultra-high-resolution computer model that gives staggering views of how carbon dioxide swirls around Mother Earth — and the heavy toll it takes on her.


5th death attributed to New York snow

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 07:19 PM PST

New York dealing with massive snow stormBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say a fifth death is being attributed to an unrelenting lake-effect snowstorm that has blanketed parts of western New York.


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