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McCain's breathtaking defense of signing the Iran letter: "I sign lots of letters"
Senator John McCain, whom you may remember from that one time he nearly became the president of the United States, has a less-than-satisfactory explanation for why he signed Senator Tom Cotton's open letter to Iranian leaders. Seems maybe worth pausing over a bit longer than the birthday card to a…How billions of rubles flow secretly into the U.K.
Rubles are rolling out of Russia. Russian money is secretly flooding into London. Around $1.5 billion of cash flows into the U.K. each month without being recorded by banks or captured in official statistics. About half that amount comes from Russia, according to research by Deutsche Bank (DB).CNN MoneyKerry says Congress cannot modify any Iran-U.S. nuclear agreement
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday they would not be able to modify any nuclear agreement struck between the United States and Iran despite threats by Republican senators. In congressional testimony, Kerry said he responded with "utter disbelief" to an open letter…- Investor's Business Daily
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Accept credit cards and make sales on the go, in your store and online with Square. IS claims execution of Arab Israeli accused of spying: video
The Islamic State released a video Tuesday purporting to show a young boy executing an Arab Israeli who it claimed infiltrated the group in Syria to spy for the Jewish state. In the video, a youth identifying himself as 19-year-old Mohammed Said Ismail Musallam recounts how he was recruited by…Is Obama Turning the Economy Around?
According to employment statistics from the Labor Department, the jobless rate in the United States has been dropping steadily since August, and the economy added 227,000 jobs last month, making February the third straight month of job gains over 200,000. Likewise, civilian labor force…US News & World ReportUkraine, land of plenty running on empty
A Soviet tank mounted on a plinth outside a primary school attests to the last time the central Ukrainian town of Kagarlyk saw war up close. The tank is a leftover from the Soviet force that routed Nazi troops from Ukraine during World War II. More than 70 years later, tanks have again been…- The National Interest
Search ends for Virginia Tech student who fell from cruise ship
By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - Rescuers have suspended the search for a missing 21-year-old Virginia Tech University student believed to have fallen overboard during a cruise in the Bahamas, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday. The student, identified as Cameron Smook, was reported missing on…Reuters- Christian Science Monitor
Beyond Indian Wells: Serena Williams has been consistently disrespected for her entire career
At the 2001 BNP Paribas Open tournament in Indian Wells, California, Serena and Venus Williams were booed by fans who accused them of match fixing when Venus withdrew from a scheduled semifinal match. It's true that sports metaphors include reverences to violence: "crushed," "killed," and…The 14 Most Loathsome Figures Of The Second World War
World War II is remembered for its cruelty and ferocious violence, a global conflict that claimed the lives of nearly 60 million people. When putting together this list, I decided to exclude some of the most obvious high-level personalities, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Herman Göring,…
