| Critics in the Senate take on Trump as he heads to the Hill to sell tax reform Posted: 24 Oct 2017 02:29 PM PDT ![Critics in the Senate take on Trump as he heads to the Hill to sell tax reform]( "Critics in the Senate take on Trump as he heads to the Hill to sell tax reform") Donald Trump made his first visit as president to the Senate on Tuesday, trying to unite his party around tax reform at a lunch with Senate Republicans. What dropped jaws was what came before and after the lunch – a remarkable public display of criticism and concern about the country under President Trump voiced by senators in his own party: Bob Corker (R) of Tennessee and Jeff Flake (R) of Arizona. Both men have been targets of searing tweets from Mr. Trump.
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| What the US is really doing in Niger Posted: 24 Oct 2017 01:51 PM PDT ![What the US is really doing in Niger]( "What the US is really doing in Niger") The tragic deaths of four US service members in an ambush in Niger have awoken Washington and US voters to the larger issue of American military deployments in Africa and the continued global nature of the nation's struggle with Islamic extremist terrorism. "I didn't know there was a thousand troops in Niger," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina, a member of the Armed Services Committee, in a Sunday broadcast interview. Pentagon officials say US counterterrorism efforts are likely to focus more on Africa now that the so-called Islamic State has been ousted from its de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria.
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| After a historic default, Argentina is a far cry from its past Posted: 24 Oct 2017 01:13 PM PDT ![After a historic default, Argentina is a far cry from its past]( "After a historic default, Argentina is a far cry from its past") The world's largest economies are awash in red ink, the International Monetary Fund reported in October. In 2001, after decades of subsidizing basic services in order to win elections, populist leaders in Argentina decided to stop paying foreign creditors. The debt default was the largest in modern history.
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| Breaking barriers, Arab-Israeli women join movement to 'wage peace' Posted: 24 Oct 2017 12:19 PM PDT ![Breaking barriers, Arab-Israeli women join movement to 'wage peace']( "Breaking barriers, Arab-Israeli women join movement to 'wage peace'") Sitting in the corner of a café in this compact Mediterranean port that is home to both Jews and Arabs, Ghadir Hani describes her frustration with the inertia of Israeli and Palestinian political leaders that led her to become a peace activist. Nearby, against a backdrop of minarets and stone walls, fishing boats bob in Akko's ancient harbor, which has borne witness to wars and battles from the time of the Romans, Crusaders, and Napoleon, and up to the 1948 Middle East conflict around the founding of the modern Jewish state of Israel. Recommended: How much do you know about the Palestinians?
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