Jeb Bush and other Republican presidential candidates attacked Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night, united against Mr. Trump’s plan to bar Muslims from entering the U.S. and arguing over who would be toughest in protecting Americans from terrorist threats.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, first-term senators who are similar in many ways, had their most pointed face-to-face confrontation.
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We’ve fact-checked the debate statements and compiled video highlights.
So, who won? There’s no agreement on a clear victor.
• Watching the Fed.
The Federal Reserve’s policy-making committee is expected to announce today that it will raise its benchmark interest rate for the first time in nearly a decade, as the U.S. economy has achieved steady growth and is close to full employment.
The rate is expected to be raised a quarter of a percentage point. The Fed has held the rate near zero for seven years as the pillar of its economic stimulus campaign.
Here’s an unconventional look at what happens when the Fed raises rates.
• Congress reaches a deal.
Republican and Democratic negotiators in the House agreed to a deal late Tuesday night on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the U.S. government through 2016, and on a huge package of tax breaks.
The government also announced that it was extending through Thursday an enrollment period for full-year health insurance, beginning on Jan. 1, under the Affordable Care Act.
• U.S. pushes on Syria and Iraq.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter is in Baghdad today to confer with Iraq’s leaders on accelerating the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State.
And Secretary of State John Kerry has been trying to find common ground with Russia’s president so that peace talks on Syria can begin in early 2016.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday to push efforts to end the conflict in Syria, the State Department said on Wednesday.
While in New York, Kerry will also host a meeting of the International Syria Support Group to discuss "efforts to foster a nationwide ceasefire and parallel political transition negotiations to end the conflict while intensifying the fight" against Islamic State militants, State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
On Friday afternoon, Kerry will chair a Security Council meeting that aims to "reinforce efforts to accelerate an end to the conflict, including necessary formal negotiations between representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition," Kirby told reporters in a news briefing.
Kerry held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in Moscow this week to pave the way for Friday's meeting of the support group.
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The meeting follows talks in Vienna last month in which the United States, Russia and European and Middle Eastern countries agreed on a plan for a political process in Syria leading to elections within two years.
Kirby said the countries invited for the talks to be held on Friday morning were those that participated in Vienna. They included Iran, another key backer of Assad. Syria did not take part.
The groups in the Riyadh meeting called for an all-inclusive, democratic Syria and said Assad should leave power at the start of a transitional period.
US diplomats hope Friday's talks will lead to a UN Security Council resolution that would provide a UN blessing to the efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Syria -- excluding the Islamic State group -- and to direct talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, first-term senators who are similar in many ways, had their most pointed face-to-face confrontation.
http://digitalartistdaily.com/user/backlinksor
We’ve fact-checked the debate statements and compiled video highlights.
So, who won? There’s no agreement on a clear victor.
• Watching the Fed.
The Federal Reserve’s policy-making committee is expected to announce today that it will raise its benchmark interest rate for the first time in nearly a decade, as the U.S. economy has achieved steady growth and is close to full employment.
The rate is expected to be raised a quarter of a percentage point. The Fed has held the rate near zero for seven years as the pillar of its economic stimulus campaign.
Here’s an unconventional look at what happens when the Fed raises rates.
• Congress reaches a deal.
Republican and Democratic negotiators in the House agreed to a deal late Tuesday night on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the U.S. government through 2016, and on a huge package of tax breaks.
The government also announced that it was extending through Thursday an enrollment period for full-year health insurance, beginning on Jan. 1, under the Affordable Care Act.
• U.S. pushes on Syria and Iraq.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter is in Baghdad today to confer with Iraq’s leaders on accelerating the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State.
And Secretary of State John Kerry has been trying to find common ground with Russia’s president so that peace talks on Syria can begin in early 2016.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday to push efforts to end the conflict in Syria, the State Department said on Wednesday.
While in New York, Kerry will also host a meeting of the International Syria Support Group to discuss "efforts to foster a nationwide ceasefire and parallel political transition negotiations to end the conflict while intensifying the fight" against Islamic State militants, State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
On Friday afternoon, Kerry will chair a Security Council meeting that aims to "reinforce efforts to accelerate an end to the conflict, including necessary formal negotiations between representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition," Kirby told reporters in a news briefing.
Kerry held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in Moscow this week to pave the way for Friday's meeting of the support group.
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The meeting follows talks in Vienna last month in which the United States, Russia and European and Middle Eastern countries agreed on a plan for a political process in Syria leading to elections within two years.
Kirby said the countries invited for the talks to be held on Friday morning were those that participated in Vienna. They included Iran, another key backer of Assad. Syria did not take part.
The groups in the Riyadh meeting called for an all-inclusive, democratic Syria and said Assad should leave power at the start of a transitional period.
US diplomats hope Friday's talks will lead to a UN Security Council resolution that would provide a UN blessing to the efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Syria -- excluding the Islamic State group -- and to direct talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups.
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