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Rep. Juan Vargas tapped for House foreign affairs and agriculture committees
Rep. Juan Vargas, D-Chula Vista, was appointed to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on Agriculture earlier this month, according to a press release from his office. He was confirmed to serve on the Foreign Affairs...
Tags: Science and Technology, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture, Juan Vargas
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Google this: North Korea open to Western help with Net upgrade?
A freelance diplomatic foray to North Korea by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Google executive Eric Schmidt has kicked up both controversy and expectations of insights into the inscrutable Hermit Kingdom. State Department officials...
Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Asia, Pyongyang (North Korea), Bill Richardson, North Korea
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Plots and clots
WASHINGTON -- The new year began not with a cannonball off the fiscal cliff but with an outbreak of conspiratorial cynicism. This time it's Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose fall and concussion, followed by a blood clot between her brain and...
Tags: Republican Party, Benghazi, U.S. Department of State, Democratic Party, Fiscal Cliff
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Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...Tags: Bill Clinton, Pakistan, U.S. Senate, 2012 Democratic National Convention, White House
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Obama to nominate John Kerry to be next secretary of state
WASHINGTON – President Obama will nominate John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, White House sources confirmed, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his...Tags: Bill Clinton, Pakistan, U.S. Senate, White House, Hillary Clinton
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Berman draws on D.C. insiders to boost self, slam rival Sherman
PolitiCalRep. Howard Berman has found some help among Washington insider organizations in his election battle with fellow Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman.... -
Cuba lifts 'exit visa' requirement for its citizens
World NowMEXICO CITY -- The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it plans to rescind the requirement that its citizens obtain exit visas in order to travel abroad, generating hope on the island that a longstanding bureaucratic hindrance to their freedom of... -
Berman enlists former diplomats to refute Sherman's criticism of trips
PolitiCalRep. Howard Berman announced backing from former secretaries of State George P. Shultz and Madeleine Albright. Berman's rival for a San Fernando Valley congressional district seat, fellow Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman, has been critical of Berman's... -
U.S., allies girding for worst-case scenario with Syria's WMD
World NowGlobal Focus: During a week that witnessed deadly artillery exchanges between Syria and Turkey and a tense showdown over a plane purportedly ferrying munitions from Russia, the arrival of 150 U.S. troops in Jordan was likely to be viewed as token... -
Courting Jewish voters, presidential candidates tout support for Israel
It began like a hailstorm and hasn't let up. First, spirited sniping over Israel between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney during their Boca Raton debate. Then came the Democratic and Republican surrogates, intensifying protracted efforts...
Tags: Dan Gelber , Iran, Miami Beach, Mitt Romney, White House
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Obama, Romney clash over world affairs in final debate
– The eyes of the world were on South Florida on Monday evening as issues of the world — foreign and military policy — took center stage in a presidential campaign that's been dominated, until now, by the economy. President Barack Obama...
Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Government, Pakistan, Iran, Fidel Castro
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Berman goes negative on Sherman with new website
PolitiCalRep. Howard Berman on Tuesday launched a campaign website slamming fall election rival and fellow Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman. Berman also recently made some changes at the top of his campaign staff....
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