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Obama Lists Climate Change Among His Top Priorities for Second Term

As President Obama moves into his second term, his policy priorities, and the policies themselves, will likely shift. Yesterday we learned that the Obama administration is considering the “zero option” when the United States withdraws from Afghanistan in 2014, leaving no American troops behind in the country.  Elisabeth Bumiller, Pentagon correspondent for Takeaway partner The New […]

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