Morning Agenda: U.S. Banks Pass Fed Tests
Date: 12 March 2015
By SYDNEY EMBER
Sydney EMBER
All the large U.S. banks pass the Fed’s stress tests. | The Utah Legislature approves a white-collar felon registry. | Endo tops Valeant’s offer for Salix. | Alibaba plans to invest in Snapchat.
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Morning Agenda: Citigroup’s Resurgence
Date: 11 March 2015
By SYDNEY EMBER
Sydney EMBER
Citigroup’s traders and investment bankers have come roaring back since the financial crisis. | Credit Suisse gets a risk expert in new chief. | Emerging markets are losing their luster. | Former JPMorgan executive joins a Bitcoin start-up.
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Obama Hands Venezuelan Leader a Cause to Stir Support
Date: 12 March 2015
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
William NEUMAN
News Analysis; Pres Obama's declaration that Venezuela is extraordinary threat to American security appears to have backfired, painting United States as bully and bolstering Venezuelan Pres Nicolas Maduro's support at home and in Latin America; officials say that declaration was formality required in order to lodge sanctions against certain Venezuelans suspected of human rights violations.
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Politics and Tradition Collide Over Iran Nuclear Talks
Date: 11 March 2015
By PETER BAKER and STEVEN ERLANGER
Peter BAKER
News analysis; letter sent to Iran by Senate Republicans undermining possible deal on nuclear weapons with Pres Obama touches off strident debate about boundaries between executive and legislative branches on foreign policy; Republicans reiterate limits of deal brokered unilaterally by a president, while administration allies react angrily.
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Early in 2016 Race, Clinton’s Toughest Foe Appears to Be the News Media
Date: 12 March 2015
By PATRICK HEALY
Patrick HEALY
News Analysis; Hillary Rodham Clinton, embroiled in controversy over her use of personal email for State Department business, appears to be facing more opposition from news media than from potential Republican rivals as she gears up for expected 2016 presidential run; Clinton's history with journalists has been a contentious one.
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A Clinton Email Defense That Turned Defensive
Date: 11 March 2015
By MAGGIE HABERMAN
Maggie HABERMAN
News Analysis; Hillary Rodham Clinton's news conference explaining her use of private email to conduct business while secretary of state quickly turned into repartee of sharp questions and increasingly defensive answers, both in what she said and in her demeanor in saying it; she turned to lawyerly argument and asked public to trust her, before walking off stage as reporters asked more questions.
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Who Are Pope Francis’s Critics?
Date: 12 March 2015
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Ross DOUTHAT
A taxonomy of various sorts of Francis-era doubt.
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Claude Sitton, 89, Acclaimed Civil Rights Reporter, Dies
Date: 11 March 2015
By DENNIS HEVESI
Dennis HEVESI
Claude Sitton, former New York Times reporter who faithfully recorded civil rights movement in South and who later won a Pulitzer Prize as columnist for The News & Observer, dies at age 89.
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An Eyewitness
Date: 11 March 2015
Excerpt from eyewitness account of 1963 civil rights arrests by reporter Claude Sitton.
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