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The Senate's Syria hearing: Live updates — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is hearing testimony Tuesday about the potential use of military force in Syria. Testifying are Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey.
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McCain opposes Senate resolution on Syria — WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain says he doesn't support the latest Senate resolution to authorize military force against Syria. — McCain is an outspoken advocate of intervention against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and wants …
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McCain opposes Syria strike resolution — Sept. 2, 2013: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington.AP — Sen. John McCain, President Obama's biggest cheerleader on Capitol Hill for a strike in Syria …
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Senators craft Syria compromise
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READ: Text Of Senate Resolution To Approve Strike On Syria
READ: Text Of Senate Resolution To Approve Strike On Syria
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Senate's Syria Resolution Sets Time Limits, Won't Authorize Ground Troops (Updated)
Senate's Syria Resolution Sets Time Limits, Won't Authorize Ground Troops (Updated)
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Howard Dean backs Obama on Syria (video) — Former DNC chairman Howard Dean supports President Obama's call for a punitive military strike against Syria. — “Thus far I fully support the president, including his going to Congress,” Dean said in an email to The Hill.
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Rubio: We Wouldn't Be At This Stage With Syria ‘If I Had Been In Charge’ (VIDEO) — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Tuesday that he's “very skeptical” that the proposed airstrike on Syria will deter the Assad regime from using chemical weapons in the future, while arguing that he'd have handled …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Votes on Syria could have huge ramifications on 2016 contenders
Votes on Syria could have huge ramifications on 2016 contenders
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Marco Rubio shifts direction on Syria
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Red Lines Matter
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: 'I Didn't Set a Red Line' on Syria — President Obama said in Sweden today that he personally “didn't set a red line” on Syria: — “First of all, I didn't set a red line,” said Obama. “The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent …
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Obama: U.S. wants international response to Syria — (CNN) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the red line he spoke of last year regarding Syria's use of chemical weapons came from international treaties and past congressional action, and he challenged the international community …
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AP INTERVIEW: PUTIN WARNS WEST ON SYRIA ACTION — You are here — Home » Vladimir Putin » AP Interview: Putin warns West on Syria action — NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia …
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Russia's President Putin warns US over Syria action
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: America's credibility on the line in Syria
Obama: America's credibility on the line in Syria
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Cheney knocks Obama, papers — 150 in Tea Party crowd hear candidate call for a ‘rebirth of freedom.’ — Liz Cheney would not vote to attack Syria if she were in the U.S. Senate. — Speaking to an enthralled crowd of 150 Jackson Hole Tea Party members Tuesday night in her first public appearance …
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Ariel Castro a suicide — (CNN) — Ariel Castro, who was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years for kidnapping and raping three women, as well as murder, was found hanging in his prison cell Tuesday night, the state's Department of Corrections said. — The cause of death was hanging with a bed sheet …
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Another Set of Questions About Syria — A few minutes ago I posted the six-step pattern of pro-escalation rhetoric that Eric Martin laid out two years ago. That followed William Polk's lengthy and important 13-question examination of a strike on Syria. — Now on the Foreign Policy site …
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Rumsfeld refers to Obama as ‘so-called commander-in-chief’
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Al Gore's Incredible Shrinking Climate Change Footprint — Illustration by John Gara / BuzzFeed; Joe Raedle / Getty Images; Saul Loeb / Getty Images — WASHINGTON — Last January, Al Gore took a boatload of scientists, donors, and celebrities to Antarctica to talk about climate change.
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ECONOMISTS: Summers As Fed Chair Would Shave 0.5% Off GDP And Cost Us 350,000 Jobs — Economists at BNP Paribas have issued a research note saying if President Obama picks Larry Summers as the next Federal Reserve Chairman, he will do serious harm to the U.S. economy.
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Obama's inept foreign policy: Column — The president's Syria coalition (France) is dwarfed by the international coalition involved in the Iraq War. — CONNECT — One of the things we were promised back in the 2008 election campaign was that under a Democratic administration America …
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Hillary Clinton's Syria dilemma
Hillary Clinton's Syria dilemma
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Thomas B. Edsall / Opinionator:
How Fragile Is the New Democratic Coalition? — Last December, Jennifer Duffy, an election analyst at the Cook Political Report, came up with a particularly tantalizing set of data points, the kind that demand further exploration. — In 1988, the Democratic presidential nominee …
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Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on - it has, but into lawlessness and ruin — Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi — A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin …
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Eduardo Porter / New York Times:
Business Losing Clout in a G.O.P. Moving Right — How did corporate America lose control of the Republican Party? — From overhauling immigration laws to increasing spending on the nation's aging infrastructure, big business leaders have seemed relatively powerless lately …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Arm and Shame — The Obama team has clearly struggled with its Syria policy, but, in fairness, this is a wickedly complex problem. We need a policy response that simultaneously deters another Syrian poison gas attack, doesn't embroil America in the Syrian civil war and also doesn't lead …
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McCain Slams Fox News: Muslims Thank Allah Like Christians Thank God (VIDEO) — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pushed back hard Tuesday against a Fox News host who raised concerns over a Syrian rebel's use of a ubiquitous Islamic phrase. — McCain was making an appearance on “Fox & Friends” …
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