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• Menendez Charges Put New Strain on Obama Relations

  08-03-2015 10:39
  
  The Obama administration’s strained relations with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) over critical foreign policy issues may now be at the breaking point. This development comes amid reports that the Department of Justice has decided to pursue criminal charges against the veteran New Jersey politician. Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has sharply differed with the administration on everything from normalizing diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba to the pa
  
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• Text of Obama's remark at Selma anniversary commemoration

  08-03-2015 03:42
  
  SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Text of President Barack Obama's remarks at the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, as provided by the White House:
  
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• U.S. Republican hopefuls Bush, Walker change their tune on ethanol

  08-03-2015 00:13
  
  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Potential Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Scott Walker told Iowa voters on Saturday that they supported government policies to boost ethanol use, a change in position that could help their prospects in the corn-growing state. Speaking at an agricultural forum in Des Moines, the two White House hopefuls said a 2007 law requiring ethanol use should be kept in place despite their general distaste for subsidies and mandates. The so-called Renew
  
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