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A major impediment to hunting fugitives who flee across U.S. borders is America's patchwork of more than 100 extradition treaties with foreign governments. Many of those agreements are arcane,...
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America's faltering program for apprehending international fugitives got some badly needed attention Monday when Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin announced a series of measures aimed at capturing the growing...
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As director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, Jeffrey Sachs has devoted his considerable intellect and energy to global development. It...
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WASHINGTON — Speaking today on behalf of his "fellow broken people," Sen. Mark Kirk, who suffered a stroke in 2012, urged the Senate to ratify a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled....
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by Mark Silva In this "nuclear Spring'' of the new administration Nuclear Posture Review announced this week, the New START agreement that the American and Russian presidents signed in Prague this week...
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by Mark Silva In this "nuclear Spring'' of the new administration Nuclear Posture Review announced this week, the New START agreement that the American and Russian presidents signed in Prague this week...
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by Mark Silva In this "nuclear Spring'' of the new administration Nuclear Posture Review announced this week, the New START agreement that the American and Russian presidents signed in Prague this week...
View ArticleObama 'confident' nuclear pact ratified
by Mark Slva President Barack Obama voiced confidence today that the Senate will ratify the "New START'' agreement to curtail U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. "When they have had the opportunity to...
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