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By Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s new president, a moderate cleric known for his conciliatory nuclear talks with world powers, will take office carrying the hopes of reformists seeking less repression of social freedoms and a more pragmatic foreign policy. Hassan Rohani is someone world powers are likely to welcome as the successor to [...]

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By Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) – The victory of a moderate in Iran's presidential election has kindled the hopes of liberals for a return to the "golden years" of reformist president Mohammad Khatami, when Iranians enjoyed more freedoms and Tehran had better relations with the West. But like Khatami, former nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani will [...]

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Talk about ‘Beyond Right & Left’ — when Franken-Rove clash with Scahill-Beck over the NSA program, knee-jerkers are confused. So Huffington & Matalin debate domestic snooping not by Hoover against protestors in the ’60s but by Obama after 9/11 and Boston. Is Snowden an Ellsberg or Manning? LISTEN HERE: True, Bush’s cherry-picked intelligence on WMD [...]

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Mike McConnell, who once led the National Security Agency, is now the chief architect of Booz Allen’s cyberstrategy — and among the executives facing questions after a data leak.      Full News here – NYT > Politics

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In a sharp escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s bloody civil war, the White House announced late Thursday that it will provide military aid to rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad after confirming that his government used chemical weapons against the opposition. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes told reporters [...]

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Vice President Joe Biden is renewing his push for gun-control legislation with an event slated for Tuesday, marking the first time the White House has held an event on guns since its legislative push for background checks failed in the Senate in April. A Biden aide declined to give any details about the event, which [...]

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PHILADELPHIA — A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation spurred public debate over how organs are allocated underwent a successful double-lung transplant on Wednesday, the girl’s family said. Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, received new lungs from an adult donor at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, spokeswoman Tracy Simon [...]

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The day after an overwhelming bipartisan vote to begin work on a comprehensive immigration reform bill, that debate got a little less, um, Kumbaya. A procedural squabble erupted as both sides wrangled over how to begin the process of amending the legislation, and senators argued heatedly over a proposed amendment by Texas Sen. John Cornyn. [...]

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First Read: After a discouraging defeat earlier this year, the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims will return to Capitol Hill this week to mark the six month anniversary of the massacre and renew their push for gun legislation. Full News here – NBCNews.com: Capitol Hill

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Rep. John Dingell became the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history Friday, and in an interview reflected on major legislative achievements and the changes in Washington over his nearly six decades in the House. Full News here – Washington Wire

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