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Obama: Will name indisputably qualified nominee for court
Judiciary chairman open to hearing for Supreme Court pick
Ted Cruz rivals pounce on trust issues
U.S., Cuba sign deal on commercial flights
Obama urges Senate to act on court nominee despite Washington's rancor
Islamic State shrugs off any Saudi ground force in Syria
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Obama: Will name indisputably qualified nominee for court

Posted: 16 Feb 2016 02:11 PM PST

President Obama declared that Republicans have no constitutional grounds to refuse to vote on a Supreme Court nominee.

Judiciary chairman open to hearing for Supreme Court pick

Posted: 16 Feb 2016 02:32 PM PST

Posted: 16 Feb 2016 02:30 PM PST

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Ted Cruz is getting hammered by his Republican rivals over what they call a pattern of unethical campaign tactics and inaccurate statements by the Texas senator who has shaped his White House bid around trust.

U.S., Cuba sign deal on commercial flights

Posted: 16 Feb 2016 02:09 PM PST

HAVANA (AP) — The United States and Cuba signed a deal Tuesday restoring commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades, allowing dozens of new daily flights to bring hundreds of thousands more American travelers a year to the island as early as this fall.

Obama urges Senate to act on court nominee despite Washington's rancor

Posted: 16 Feb 2016 03:13 PM PST

President Obama vowed to pick an "indisputably" qualified nominee to the high court.

Islamic State shrugs off any Saudi ground force in Syria

Posted: 16 Feb 2016 12:14 PM PST

Islamic State says it will fight any Saudi ground intervention in Syria and that Saudi action might add to complications but would not bolster enemies of the militant group. Saudi Arabia has said it is ready to participate in any ground operations in Syria that the U.S.-led alliance may decide to start. "This intervention, if it happened, would not provide much to the enemies of Islamic State ...," Islamic State said in an editorial on Tuesday carried by the‮‮ ‬‬group's al-Naba weekly newspaper, referring to President Bashar al-Assad, his Russian and Iranian allies and the U.S-led coalition.