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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Clinton calls for new sanctions on Iran — Hours after the U.S. dropped sanctions on Iran as part of the nuclear deal, Democratic primary front-runner Hillary Clinton called for new sanctions on the nation for its ballistic missile program. — Clinton on Saturday praised President Obama …
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
US finds Iran in compliance with deal, lifts nuclear sanctions — Iran has taken sufficient steps to prevent it from building a nuclear weapon, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog certified Saturday, opening the door for the United States and countries around the world to lift sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy.
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iaea.org:
IAEA Director General's Statement on Iran — Today, I released a report confirming that Iran has completed the necessary preparatory steps to start the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The report was submitted to the IAEA Board of Governors and to the United Nations Security Council.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: In negotiating to free Americans in Iran, U.S. blinked on new sanctions — By Lesley Wroughton, Patricia Zengerle and Matt Spetalnick — VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The day before the Obama administration was due to slap new sanctions on Iran late last month …
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Jessica Schulberg / The Huffington Post:
Iran Releases 4 American Prisoners After Months Of Top-Secret Negotiations
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John Kerry / US Department of State:
Remarks on Implementation Day — Remarks — Secretary of State
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Ted Cruz / Guardian:
Trump condemns terms of Iran prisoner swap as Republicans join in criticism
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
International sanctions against Iran lifted
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New York Times:
Iran Says It Has Released Four People in a Prisoner Swap
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Marco Rubio Condemns Prisoner Swap for Post Journalist
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Don Melvin / CNN:
IAEA announcement expected on Iranian compliance with nuclear agreement
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton surrogate to demand Sanders release medical records — A top surrogate for Hillary Clinton is prepping a new attack in an intensifying and increasingly personal war against rival Bernie Sanders — calling on the 74-year-old to release his medical records before the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1.
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Campaign Underestimated Sanders Strengths, Allies Say — Advisers to Hillary Clinton, including the former president Bill Clinton, believe that her campaign made serious miscalculations by forgoing early attacks on Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and failing to undercut …
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Moe Lane / RedState:
Bernie Sanders yells at Wikipedia, cloud over... campaign logos?
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Kristen East / Politico:
Sanders calls on Michigan Gov. Snyder to resign over Flint water crisis
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Reigning Cats and Dogs — WASHINGTON — AFTER running as a man last time around, Hillary Clinton is now running as a woman. — Matthew Dowd, the former W. strategist who became an independent, says Hillary got it backward: She should have run as a woman in 2008, when she was beating back a feminized antiwar candidate.
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Matthew MacWilliams / Politico:
The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You're a Trump Supporter — If I asked you what most defines Donald Trump supporters, what would you say? They're white? They're poor? They're uneducated? — You'd be wrong. — In fact, I've found a single statistically significant variable …
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Economist:
The yuan and the markets — Strains on the currency suggest that something is very wrong with China's politics — “WHAT if we could just be China for a day?” mused Thomas Friedman, an American columnist, in 2010. “...We could actually, you know, authorise the right solutions.”
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Ted Cruz taunts Donald Trump over his slipping lead and Twitter habits — MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—Hours before Ted Cruz and Donald Trump were slated to appear here at a tea party gathering, Cruz unloaded on Trump, taunting him over his poll numbers and ratcheting up attacks on his conservative credibility.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Despite his earlier criticism of Ammon Bundy taking over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in support of imprisoned Dwight and Steven Hammond, the founder of the anti-government militia group Oath Keepers warned federal authorities …
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Some Inconvenient Gun Facts for Liberals — FOR those of us who argue in favor of gun safety laws, there are a few inconvenient facts. — We liberals are sometimes glib about equating guns and danger. In fact, it's complicated: The number of guns in America has increased …
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Cologne's aftershocks — The ultimate victim of sexual assaults by migrants could be Angela Merkel's liberal refugee policy — FOR a brief moment at the turn of the year, Angela Merkel seemed to have recaptured control of Germany's careering debate over refugees.
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