| How some lawmakers see a way to work together on health care Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:06 PM PDT ![How some lawmakers see a way to work together on health care]( "How some lawmakers see a way to work together on health care") Arizona Sen. John McCain, who defied illness this week and traveled to Washington to give the GOP health plan a decisive push forward, instead has dealt it a death blow. "I urge my colleagues to trust each other, stop political games& put health needs of American ppl 1st. Regaining trust is a very tall order in a Congress that just went through six months of a highly partisan effort by Republicans to fulfill their campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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| How a 20-million-person crisis goes unseen Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:31 PM PDT ![How a 20-million-person crisis goes unseen]( "How a 20-million-person crisis goes unseen") Battered by drought and civil wars, more than 20 million people from Yemen to Tanzania are at risk of starvation in what aid workers call the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II. But over the past two decades, nations that once produced searing images of famine's toll have moved to thwart it by strengthening community resilience. The world is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, with 20 million people on the brink of famine, and hardly anybody knows about it.
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| Nuclear diplomacy: Can Trump isolate Iran without isolating US? Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:15 PM PDT ![Nuclear diplomacy: Can Trump isolate Iran without isolating US?]( "Nuclear diplomacy: Can Trump isolate Iran without isolating US?") Perhaps it was all the other fires the White House has burning that prompted President Trump to begrudgingly approve another 90-day certification of Iran's compliance with a nuclear deal he has long promised to scuttle. Recommended: How much do you know about Iran? Pulling out of the Iran accord would complete a trifecta of withdrawals from international agreements that Trump inherited from President Obama.
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| With crucial election looming, Venezuelans hear clarion call to civic action Posted: 28 Jul 2017 07:24 AM PDT ![With crucial election looming, Venezuelans hear clarion call to civic action]( "With crucial election looming, Venezuelans hear clarion call to civic action") At the behest of opposition congressmen, Venezuelans are taking their political fight to the schoolyard. Hand-written posters hang from fences, trees, and bus stops outside schools used for government voting centers, calling for the cancellation of President Nicolás Maduro's planned July 30 vote to elect a special assembly to rewrite the country's 1999 Constitution. "Free Venezuela," reads one sign in the Montalbán neighborhood in western Caracas on Monday.
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