WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iran nuclear deal strongly backed by President Barack Obama and just as ardently opposed by the Republican Party is now on track to get through Congress./ In the Senate, Democratic supporters now claim a decisive 34 votes in favor, after Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland ...
Republican leaders vowed Wednesday to press forward with a rigorous debate over the merits of the deal/ Moving forward, Republicans say they want to pass new sanctions on Iran/ Congressional Republicans faced a significant, but expected, setback Wednesday when Democrats secured the 34 Senate ...
US President Barack Obama has clinched enough Congressional support to ensure his Iran deal goes through (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)/ Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday earned sufficient congressional backing to ensure the international deal to roll back Iran's nuclear program ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama secured a landmark foreign policy victory over ferocious opposition from Republicans and the government of Israel when Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski became the 34th vote in favor of the Iran nuclear deal. ./ Mikulski's backing gives supporters the ...
//www.npr.org/player/embed/436647276/436820871" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">/ Sen. Bob Corker (center, standing) speaks with fellow Republican senators before a hearing on the Iran nuclear agreement. Corker opposes the deal, but was among the architects of rules that ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will give a speech Wednesday in Philadelphia in support of the international agreement on Iran's nuclear program, while Democrats in Congress are on the verge of guaranteeing lawmakers will not be able to pass a measure opposing the deal. Kerry and top ...
President Barack Obama is on the verge of a major foreign policy victory./ Supporters of the Iran nuclear agreement are now just one vote shy of locking in enough support to preserve the deal after two Senate Democrats said Tuesday they would back it. Just about an hour apart, Sens. Chris Coons ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is just one Senate vote shy of being able to declare success on the Iran nuclear deal and cement a foreign policy legacy. Senate support for the deal now stands at 33 votes, thanks to announcements Tuesday from Democrats Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and ...
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey takes the stage for Democratic challenger for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf at a "Women for Wolf" grassroots rally at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. (Reuters)/ Supporters of the Iran nuclear deal are on the cusp of clinching the necessary Senate ...
Sens. Chris Coons and Bob Casey announced their support for the deal Tuesday./ WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) came out in favor of the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, calling his decision a "very hard choice" and putting the Obama administration within one vote of a victory./ Coons is the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of the international agreement with Iran on its nuclear program moved within one vote of mustering enough support to protect the deal in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday when two more Democratic senators said they would support the pact. Democratic Senators Bob ...
In this July 23, 2015 file photo, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cardin is predicting there will be enough votes in the Senate by week's end to uphold President Barack Obama's veto of a resolution ...
In this July 23, 2015 file photo, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cardin is predicting there will be enough votes in the Senate by week’s end to uphold President Barack Obama’s veto of a resolution ...
war activists hold a Picnic for Peace outside the White House in Washington in support of the Iran nuclear deal. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)/ American opinions on the Iran nuclear agreement have grown sharply polarized along party lines, according to a new poll released Tuesday as the White House ...
Three House Democrats from New York and a House Democrat from Florida who is running for a Senate seat endorsed President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran on Monday, lending fresh momentum to the pact from political quarters that once appeared most leery of it. In rapid succession, Representatives ...
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) will vote for a nuclear agreement with Iran, joining House Democrats who would, if necessary, sustain a veto from President Obama of any legislation blocking the deal. “This resolution to the immediate threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program is compelling, as are the ...
“Israel is going to lose this vote in the United States House and Senate that will take place by September 17, " Dankof says./ Israel and its powerful lobby in the United States will lose the upcoming vote in Congress on the Iran nuclear agreement, says a former US Senate candidate. “They spent ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that , killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, ...
The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh - part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's massively ambitious plans to shift the kingdom into a new era, economically and socially./ Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with ...
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned./ Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday./ Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a ...
) — A video of a fight between a student and a substitute teacher at a Las Vegas valley high school was shared on social media Thursday, sources said. A substitute teacher and a student engaged in a fight, which was caught on camera at Valley High School in east Las Vegas. Sources indicated that ...
A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of brain trauma. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in ...
In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in ...
Bettersten Wade speaks to the attendees of her son Dexter Wade's funeral service in Jackson, Miss. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Looking on are the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, who delivered the eulogy, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, background, and one of her son's daughters, Jaselyn Thomas. Bettersten ...
A mother will search anywhere for her missing child. And while she has the strength, she will never stop./ For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the mass graves at Nasser hospital./ She is the mother of 21-year-old Ahmed, who was killed on 25 ...