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When Joe Biden was inaugurated in January, several key foreign policy issues topped his to-do list: Rejoin the Paris Climate Accords, tick. Rejoin the World Health Organization, tick. End the Muslim travel ban, tick. Rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) – well, actually, no tick.

Two teenagers have been charged in the Thursday killing of a Roaring Spring, Pa., woman, according to Pennsylvania state police in Bedford County. One of the teenagers is charged with homicide and other related offenses while the other is charged with conspiracy to commit homicide and other related offenses in the death of Stephanie Waters, 21. Police did not identify the 16-year-old boy from Woodbury, Pa., and the 15-year-old boy from Martinsburg, Pa., who were arrested as suspects. Ms. Waters was reported missing Thursday to the Roaring Spring Borough Police Department, and posts were made on social media describing her...

Former President Bill Clinton is headed to the White House on Friday to meet with President Obama, an administration official confirmed to POLITICO.

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2006 – Training Iraqi police forces is the most important job in Iraq today, but it is also the most difficult, a senior military police officer involved in that training said today. "Our goal in theater is to have 135,000 trained and resourced Iraqi police officers working on the streets within the 18 provinces by the end of the year," Army Col. Rod Barham, commander of 49th Military Police Brigade, said from Baghdad in a satellite news conference with reporters in the Pentagon. The 49th, a California National Guard unit, is responsible for training police at the...

One of the most difficult problems state officials face in trying to reform state government is the special privileges public-sector unions enjoy that enable them to halt reforms that they oppose. A good recent example came last week when an arbitrator ruled that members of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association - the prison guards union - can essentially devote an unlimited amount of working hours to union business. The state Department of Personnel Administration has tried to limit the amount of time used by prison guards to do union business, under the clear terms of a 2001 contract. It's...

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SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's strategy of making deals with some of the recipients of state funding was intended to help pave the way for early action on a new state budget. But his deal with local government groups has backfired, leading to a lengthy budget deadlock that has become the governor's first real setback since he took office in November. An impressive string of victories, among them changes to workers' compensation and a $15 billion deficit-reduction bond, ended when the state entered the new fiscal year July 1 without a budget. Now Schwarzenegger, who wanted an on-time budget to...

Interior Minister Avraham Poraz has a novel suggestion for getting rid of the Jewish outposts in the Shomron. Speaking on Army Radio this morning, he proposed that after outposts are dismantled and evacuated, Israel cooperate with Arab forces from the Palestinian Authority to prevent Jews from rebuilding them. Poraz said that the forcibly evacuated outposts should be turned over to Arabs from the PA, and the Jews would then not dare to return and rebuild them, for fear of confronting the Arab militia. Just three days ago, similar anti-Jewish sentiments were expressed by some of the former Shabak (General Security...