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President Obama Meeting With Cuban President Historic
President Obama and Cuba’s President Raul Castro meet.
The President Wants John McCain To Back Off John Kerry
President Obama wants John McCain to leave John Kerry alone.
The President blasted the Ari- zona senator on Saturday for his recent comments questioning how forthcoming the secretary of state has been about what’s contained in the preliminary nuclear deal with Iran.
During a press conference in Panama City, Pres. Obama praised Kerry’s service to the country, noting that he’s a for- mer senator and a Vietnam vet- eran.
For McCain (R-Ariz.) to imply that Kerry “is somehow less trustworthy in the interpre- tation of what’s in a political agreement than the supreme leader of Iran, that’s an indica- tion of the degree to which par- tisanship has crossed all boundaries,” the President said. Earlier in the week, the Republi- can senator, who is also a Viet- nam veteran, declared in an interview that when it came to the preliminary nuclear deal with Iran: “John Kerry is delusional.”
Man Commits Suicide In Front Of Capitol Building
Panama City, Panama --- Ending a decades-long stand- still in U.S.-Cuba relations, President Barack Obama met for an hour Saturday with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, the first time the two nations' top leaders have sat down for substantive talks in more than 50 years.
The meeting in a small con- ference room on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas came as the two countries work to end the Cold War en- mity that had led to a total freeze of diplomatic ties. And while both leaders proclaimed progress had been made, a key stumbling block -- Cuba's place on the U.S. list of coun- tries that sponsor terror -- re- mained unresolved.
"This is obviously an historic meeting," President Obama said at the beginning of his ses- sion with Castro, claiming that decades of strain had done little to benefit either Cubans or citizens of the United States.
Castro, who earlier in the day said he trusted the Presi- dent, acknowledged there would be difficult stumbling blocks as his nation works to repair ties with the United States. But he said those dif- ferences could be surmounted.
Speaking to reporters after his session with Castro, President Obama said the meeting was "candid and fruit- ful" and could prove to be a "turning point" in his push to defrost ties with Cuba.
A precautionary lockdown of the U.S. Capitol was lifted after about two hours Saturday fol- lowing a suicide by a man car- rying a protest sign.
The man died after shooting himself on the west front of the Capitol building just after 1 p.m., Capitol Police spokes- woman Kimberly Schnei- der said. No one else was hurt.
Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine said the man had a back- pack and a rolling suitcase, triggering an hours-long lock- down, and a sign that said something about "social jus- tice."
Robert Bishop of Annapo- lis, Maryland said he was bik- ing near the steps of the Capitol when the suicide hap- pened.
Bishop didn't witness the suicide but said there were about 60 people in the area, and that some of them did, in- cluding a girl and her mother who immediately began crying afterward.
Bishop said another wit- ness told him and a police of- ficer that the man who committed suicide held up a protest sign about taxation just before pulling the trigger.
Hillary Clinton Officially Announces She Is Running For President
Hillary Rodham Clinton
officially announced she’s a candidate for the presidency on Sunday, but she’s been run- ning — in place — for the bet- ter part of two years.
Clinton was only out of the State Department a few months in the late spring of 2013, a period she’s often de- scribed as one of apolitical re- flection, relaxation and recharging, when friends began fielding interesting phone calls from her D.C. mansion, known as White- haven.
Even if most people around Mrs. Clinton knew she would run, the candidate-to- be left that “TBD” deliberately
THE CLINTONS
open for months — leaving herself latitude to ditch the en- tire enterprise if she got cold feet or faced a serious Demo- cratic challenger.
Clinton, the instant Demo- cratic frontrunner, has wanted to be the first woman presi- dent since earliest girlhood in Chicago.
‘Face The Nation’ To Get A New Face
CBS News political director John Dickerson has been named the next host of “Face the Nation,” host Bob Schief- fer announced Sunday.
Dickerson’s first turn in the anchor chair will take place this summer, when Schieffer retires after nearly five decades in journalism, more than two of them as host of the Sunday news show.
“I couldn’t be happier,” Schieffer said on Sunday’s broadcast. “‘Face the Nation’ is going to be in good hands.”
Dickerson’s connection to the show and network is deep:
Bob Schieffer is retiring. John Dickerson will replace him.
His mother, Nancy Dicker- son, was the first female cor- respondent in the CBS News Washington bureau and an as- sociate producer on “Face the Nation.”
Party Of Nigeria’s President-Elect
Retains State Governorship
The party of Nigeria's presi- dent-elect Muhammadu Buhari has retained the Lagos state governorship, the electoral commission said on Sunday, consolidating his ad- ministration's power by giving it control of the commercial capital.
While voting was extended in several other states due to violence or voting irregulari- ties, the result in Lagos means it will be the first time since the end of military rule in 1999 that the governor of that key state and the president will be from the same party.
Observers said turnout was
Voting in Lagos
low in the vote to elect 29 gov- ernors and all state assem- blies, compared with the presidential vote last month that was considered the freest and fairest yet and paved the way for Nigeria's first demo- cratic transfer of power, with Buhari beating President Goodluck Jonathan by a landslide.
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