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• Hillary Clinton praises prisoner release, urges new Iran sanctions

  16-01-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday praised the release of Americans held by Iran, but urged new sanctions on Tehran over its ballistic missile testing program. "I am greatly relieved by the safe return of American prisoners from Iran," the former U.S. secretary of state said in a statement following announcements of a historic and multi-faceted deal between Iran and the United States. She said if she were elected president in November, her approa
  
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• Factbox: Lifting sanctions on Iran - how it will work

  16-01-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Louis Charbonneau and Arshad Mohammed UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations' nuclear watchdog confirmed on Saturday that Iran had curbed its nuclear program as agreed with world powers, paving the way for most international sanctions against Tehran to be lifted. Following are details of what this means: BREAKOUT The July 14 nuclear deal aims, for the next decade, to extend the amount of time it would theoretically take Iran to produce enough fissile material for an atomic bomb - so-ca
  
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• Iran's nuclear capabilities

  16-01-2016 23:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Here's a look at Iran's nuclear capabilities.
  
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• Growing feud: Trump, Cruz escalate attacks on each other

  16-01-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (Reuters) - The growing feud between Republican front-runner Donald Trump and his central rival Ted Cruz intensified on Saturday with tit-for-tat attacks that put to rest any notion that their debate night fight was a solitary engagement. The split between the two is evidence of the closeness of the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, particularly in Iowa. Polls there show a neck-and-neck battle with little more than two weeks to go until Iow
  
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• Iran nuclear deal: What happens next

  16-01-2016 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The International Atomic Energy Agency on Saturday certified that Iran has met its obligations under its agreement with international negotiators.
  
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• VIDEO: Iran sees end to international sanctions

  16-01-2016 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  International sanctions on Iran have been lifted after its compliance with obligations under its nuclear agreement with world powers was certified.
  
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• Burkina Faso hotel seizure ends; 4 jihadis, 28 others dead

  16-01-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The Al-Qaida fighters who stormed a popular hangout in Burkina Faso's capital at dinnertime came with a mission to kill as many people as possible, firing at people as they moved to a nearby hotel and setting the cafe ablaze, survivors and officials said Saturday. When the gunfire stopped after a more than 12-hour siege, at least 28 people had been slain in an unprecedented attack on this West African country long spared the jihadist violence experienced by
  
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• U.N. nuclear watchdog chief to visit Tehran on Sunday

  16-01-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano will travel to Tehran on Sunday to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, the International Atomic Energy Organisation (IAEA) said on Saturday. "The discussions will focus on the IAEA’s role in verifying and monitoring Iran's nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," the Vienna-based IAEA said in a statement, referring to a July deal between Iran and major powers
  
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• Cruz supporters boo Trump at conservative gathering

  16-01-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump is running afoul of some tea party activists by attacking Republican presidential rival Ted Cruz.
  
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• 'Star Wars' actor, legislator team to stop fake memorabilia

  16-01-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill and a California legislator have teamed up to combat a problem that any collector dreads: bogus autographed memorabilia.
  
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• High surf complicating Hawaii search for missing Marines

  16-01-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HALEIWA, Hawaii (AP) — Rescuers battled winds of up to 23 mph and waves up to 30 feet as they searched for 12 Marines who are missing after two helicopters they were in crashed off the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
  
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• U.S. lifts ban on foreign units of American companies operating in Iran

  16-01-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will now allow foreign subsidiaries of American companies to trade with Iran as part of sanctions relief granted under an international nuclear deal, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Saturday. U.S. authorities have also lifted restrictions on non-American purchases of Iranian oil, as well as the sale of goods and services to Iran's energy sector, the Treasury said. (Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati and Joel Schectman; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
  
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• U.N. lifts most Iran sanctions on receipt of IAEA nuclear report

  16-01-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council received on Saturday a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog confirming Iran fulfilled commitments under a nuclear deal with world powers, triggering an automatic end to most U.N. sanctions, diplomats said. The receipt of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report by the 15-member council terminates seven previous U.N. resolutions, which are now replaced by a resolution adopted on July 20 that carries over
  
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• EU has lifted Iran sanctions after nuclear deal compliance: European source

  16-01-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The European Union on Saturday lifted its economic sanctions against Iran after the UN atomic watchdog announced that Tehran had complied with the terms of last July's landmark deal aimed at scaling down its nuclear programme. European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini made the official announcement in Vienna. "As Iran has fulfilled its commitments, today, multilateral and national economic and financial sanctions related to Iran's nuclear programme are lifted in accordance" with the
  
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• Obama signs emergency order over Flint water

  16-01-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration Saturday that clears the way for federal aid for Flint, Michigan, which is undergoing a drinking water crisis.
  
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• Aerosmith drummer's new coffee shop to open in April

  16-01-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — A rock 'n' roll-themed coffee shop owned by Aerosmith's drummer is on schedule to open in the spring.
  
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• Six Canadians killed in Burkina Faso attack, PM Trudeau says

  16-01-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Six Canadian citizens were killed when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital city of Burkina Faso on Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday. "We offer our deepest condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of all those killed," Trudeau said in a statement. "We have offered assistance to the Burkinabe authorities in their investigation of this terrible crime." Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday a day after al Qaeda fighters
  
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• The Latest: UN chief welcomes implementation of Iran deal

  16-01-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VIENNA (AP) — The latest developments as Iran and world powers prepare to implement a landmark deal reached last year to curb Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions (all times local).
  
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• The Latest: Michael Moore returns to Flint amid water crisis

  16-01-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Documentary filmmaker and former Flint-area resident Michael Moore has returned to his hometown to call for President Barack Obama to come see the water crisis for himself.
  
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• U.N. agency gives green light to lifting of Iran sanctions

  16-01-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton and Sam Wilkin VIENNA/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran emerged from years of economic isolation on Saturday when the U.N. nuclear watchdog ruled the Islamic Republic had curbed its nuclear programme under a deal with world powers, clearing the way for the lifting of crippling sanctions against Tehran. In another sign of the easing of tensions between the West and Iran, Tehran and Washington announced an unexpected prisoner swap. Iran will free five Americans including jailed Washington
  
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• International sanctions lifted after Iran complies with nuclear deal

  16-01-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The historic nuclear accord between Iran and major powers entered into force Saturday as the UN confirmed that Tehran has shrunk its atomic programme and as painful sanctions were lifted on the Islamic republic. "I thank God for this blessing & bow to the greatness of the patient nation of Iran." Rouhani said on his official Twitter account. The International Atomic Energy Agency said its "inspectors on the ground verified that Iran has carried out all measures" agreed under the agreement.
  
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• NFL Latest: Jones starts despite police station visit

  16-01-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest from NFL wild-card games Sunday. (All times EST)
  
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• U.S. senator calls for sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile test

  16-01-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should promptly slap sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile tests that violated U.N. Security Council resolutions, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal urged on Saturday. "‎Without delay, the United States should enforce sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program," the Connecticut senator said. He made the statement shortly after other economic sanctions on Iran were formally lifted following certification that Iran was abiding by a nuclear
  
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• Kerry says American prisoners in Iran should be on way home shortly

  16-01-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that American prisoners in Iran would be on their way home shortly after being released from custody by Iran under a prisoner deal. "I am very happy to say, as we speak, we have received confirmation that five Americans that have been unjustly detained in Iran have been released ... and they should be on their way home to their families before long," Kerry said in a statement at the end of nuclear talks.
  
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• EU to lift economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program

  16-01-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gabriela Baczynska and Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Saturday began the process of lifting economic and financial sanctions on Iran, implementing a landmark 2015 deal between world powers and Tehran, and paving the way for EU business to return to the country of 80 million. EU diplomats said the formal lifting of sanctions should be rapid following automatically from an International Atomic Energy Agency report saying Tehran had scaled down its nuclear program as ag
  
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• Colson leads Notre Dame past No. 9 Duke, 95-91

  16-01-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Bonzie Colson hit a shot against Duke, drew a foul and stared down those noisy Cameron Crazies.
  
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• Broncos vow not to make same mistake and overlook Steelers

  16-01-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers stagger into Denver with an ailing Ben Roethlisberger, who won't have his leading rusher or his top receiver against the league's best defense Sunday.
  
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• Roger Federer: 'I need to be pushed'

  16-01-2016 23:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  He arrived in Melbourne with a cold and a new coach, but Roger Federer believes he is prepared to contend for the Australian Open title.
  
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• Panthers look for redemption in playoff rematch vs. Seahawks

  16-01-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera says the Seattle Seahawks are starting to feel a little like a division opponent.
  
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• Controversy as captain saves Chelsea

  16-01-2016 23:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  John Terry's 700th club appearance was certainly an eventful one -- he scored an own-goal and also netted Chelsea's controversial late equalizer against Everton.
  
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• Celine Dion's brother dies just days after her husband

  16-01-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTREAL (AP) — Daniel Dion, the older brother of pop singer Celine Dion, died Saturday, just two days after the death of the entertainer's husband, Rene Angelil.
  
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• IS 'massacre' in east Syria city kills scores

  16-01-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Islamic State group attack Saturday in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor killed at least 85 civilians and 50 regime forces, a monitor said, with state media denouncing a "massacre". Syria's state news agency SANA, quoting residents, said "around 300 civilians" were killed in the onslaught. If confirmed it would be one of the highest tolls for a single day in Syria's nearly five-year war.
  
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• Couple kidnapped in Burkina Faso were Australian citizens - Burkina president

  16-01-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A couple kidnapped overnight in northern Burkina Faso near the border with Mali are Australian citizens who run a clinic and have lived in the West African nation since 1972, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said on Saturday. In an address broadcast on state-owned television, Kabore identified the victims of the abduction, which took place as al Qaeda fighters were attacking a hotel in the capital, as Kenneth and Jocelyn Elliott. Burkina Faso's security ministry had earli
  
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• Burkina hotel retaken from al Qaeda fighters, but dozens dead

  16-01-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday a day after al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed at least 28 people from at least 18 countries and marked a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa. The assault follows a similar raid in November on a luxury hotel in Mali's capital Bamako which killed 20 people, including citizens of Russia, China and the United States. The Ou
  
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• Iran frees Washington Post's reporter

  16-01-2016 22:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Iran releases Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and three other Iranian-American prisoners as international sanctions on Iran are lifted.
  
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• Dutch national among those killed in Burkina Faso attacks

  16-01-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A 67-year-old Dutchman was among those killed in an attack on a restaurant and hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso on Friday, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said. The man was doing volunteer work, Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said in a statement late on Saturday. Security forces retook a hotel in Ouagadoudou on Saturday, a day after Islamist al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed at least 28 people. (Reporting By Anthony Deutsch)
  
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• Thumbnail bios of those freed in US-Iran prisoner swap

  16-01-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The following are short biographies of the four Americans being released Saturday by Iran, and the seven Iranians freed by the United States under a prisoner swap. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, the dual American-Iranian citizen had relatively little exposure to Iran until he was in his 20s and his father began visiting his homeland. After completing his studies at the New School, a university in New York, in 2000, he spent more and more time in Iran, freelancing for Western news
  
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• Hawaii reports first US case of Zika-linked brain damage

  16-01-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States has reported its first case of a newborn suffering from brain damage linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus that has caused birth defects in Latin America. The baby, born in a hospital in Oahu, suffers from microcephaly, a rare condition that means its brain and skull are abnormally small, the Hawaiian state health department said late Friday. The mother was probably infected with the virus early in her pregnancy while living in Brazil in May 2015 and transmitted it to the fet
  
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• EU starts procedure to lift nuclear sanctions on Iran

  16-01-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The European Union on Saturday started the process of lifting sanctions on Iran after the bloc's foreign policy service took note of an International Atomic Energy Agency report saying Tehran had scaled down its nuclear program as agreed, EU diplomats said. The report was crucial to determining that Iran had delivered its part of a deal with world powers. In exchange, the United Nations, the United States and the European Union had promised to ease their sanctions.
  
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• U.S. officially lifts U.S. nuclear sanctions against Iran: Kerry

  16-01-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States officially lifted nuclear sanctions against Iran on Saturday, when Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed in a statement that the International Atomic Energy Agency had verified that Iran had "fully implemented its required commitments" under the nuclear deal. According to a senior State Department official, Kerry signed a series of documents including certification to the U.S. government that the IAEA had certified compliance in their report, and waiver
  
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• Obama issues order lifting nuclear-related sanctions on Iran

  16-01-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Saturday lifting sanctions on Iran related to its nuclear program after Tehran fulfilled requirements under a nuclear agreement with world powers, the White House said. Obama determined that Iran's implementation of the pact "marks a fundamental shift in circumstances with respect to Iran's nuclear program," he wrote in the order, released by the White House.
  
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• EU's Mogherini says Iran nuclear deal now in force

  16-01-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Saturday that an historic deal between Iran and six world powers to lift crippling sanctions on the Islamic Republic in exchange for it drastically shrinking its nuclear program had gone into force. "Today we have achieved Implementation Day of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," Federica Mogherini told reporters in Vienna, referring to the deal sealed last July. (Reporting By Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
  
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• VIDEO: Iran sanctions deal in 60 seconds

  16-01-2016 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What will the lifting of sanctions on Iran mean?
  
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• How U.S.-Iran prisoner swap drama unfolded in fits and starts

  16-01-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton, Matt Spetalnick and Yeganeh Torbati VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first glimpse of a secretly negotiated U.S.-Iran prisoner exchange came on Saturday in a flurry of early morning electronic filings in federal courts from New York to California as prosecutors dropped sanctions violations cases against more than half a dozen Iranians. The legal steps were soon followed by Iran’s announcement via state media that it was freeing four Iranian-Americans, including Washin
  
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• Cher donates thousands of bottles of water to troubled Flint

  16-01-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Cher is donating water to the residents of Flint, Michigan, as the city struggles with a drinking water crisis linked to lead contamination.
  
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• Kerry confirms Iran in compliance with nuclear deal, lifts US nuclear-related sanctions

  16-01-2016 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VIENNA (AP) — Kerry confirms Iran in compliance with nuclear deal, lifts US nuclear-related sanctions.
  
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• The Latest: Obama signs emergency order over Flint water

  16-01-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan (all times local):
  
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• Factbox: Five American prisoners released in Iran

  16-01-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Iran has released five American prisoners, including a Washington Post reporter, a Christian pastor and a former U.S. Marine, U.S. officials said on Saturday. The Americans released as part of a prisoner swap with Iran are Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief, Saeed Abedini, a pastor from Idaho, Amir Hekmati, a former Marine from Flint, Michigan, and Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, U.S. officials said.
  
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• Iran, U.S. announce prisoner deal; end of sanctions nears

  16-01-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton and Sam Wilkin VIENNA/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran and the United States eased decades of tension on Saturday with the announcement of a prisoner deal as world powers prepared to lift crippling sanctions against Tehran in return for the curbing of the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. In an unusual move, President Barack Obama pardoned three Iranian-Americans charged for violating sanctions against Iran, a lawyer for one of the men said, while prosecutors moved to drop charges ag
  
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• Bush spars with Trump supporter over foreign policy

  16-01-2016 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AMHERST, N.H. (AP) — A fiery Jeb Bush defended his foreign policy strategies Saturday in the face of criticism from a Donald Trump supporter who showed up at one of Bush's town hall meetings.
  
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