"I've heard from foreign leaders and from foreign ambassadors that this really undermines our ability to be the world's model of democracy," Sen. Chris Coons said. Read More
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Hoyer: ‘Republicans stay stuck in the mud’ on shutdown
Republicans are floating ideas of wrapping the shutdown and the debt ceiling into a single debate. "That's absurd on its face," said House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. Read More
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Netanyahu claims Iran intends to deceive the West
In a Tuesday interview with NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the country's leadership a “cult,” and a “messianic, apocalyptic, radical regime” intent on the nuclear destruction of Israel and the U.S. Read More
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Netanyahu warns Iran’s leader is a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’
"Ahmadinejad was a wolf in wolf's clothing. Rouhani is a wolf in sheep's clothing -- a wolf who thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the international community," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read More
![President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and people who support the Affordable Care Act, his signature health care law, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (Photo by Charles Dharapak/AP)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20131004224431im_/http://msnbctv.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/ap923635035959.jpg?w=196&h=148&crop=1)
Congress shuts down government, but not Obamacare
"A small group of one house of one body of Congress has decided to hijack the federal government," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Andrea Mitchell. "The want to re-litigate the election." Read More
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Obama tries to reassure Israel over Iranian nuclear negotiations
Obama vowed to proceed with caution toward a potential diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear standoff, and reaffirmed an “unshakable bond” with the Israeli people. Read More
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US, Russia agree on Syria deal, sources say
The U.S. and Russia have come to an agreement on a draft resolution to enforce the handover of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapon stockpiles, diplomatic sources confirmed to NBC News Thursday. Read More
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Iran’s Rouhani denounces nukes on UN stage
Ushered into office less than two months ago, Rouhani--a former nuclear negotiator--campaigned on a promise to improve Iran’s international relations. Read More
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A boost for Obamacare: Premiums cost less than expected
With less than one week to go before health care "exchanges" open for enrollment, the administration says that individual premiums will cost an average of $328 per month--16% lower than the Congressional Budget Office projected. Read More
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Obama to UN: Don’t let Assad get away with chemical attack
President Obama called on the United Nations to pass a “strong” resolution to ensure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad surrenders his chemical weapon stockpiles in a speech before the General Assembly Tuesday. Read More
![In this Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 photo, a Syrian opposition fighter watches over as heavy fighting breaks out in in the Idlib province countryside, Syria. For Syria's divided and beleaguered rebels, the creeping realization that there will not be a decisive Western military intervention on their behalf is a huge psychological blow. (Photo by AP)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20131004224431im_/http://msnbctv.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ap614759309286.jpg?w=196&h=148&crop=1)
Syrian war deal faces UN showdown
A resolution that could end the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons is finally in the hands of the United Nations. But it's unclear if it will pass, and how it might be enforced. Read More
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Kerry tees up U.N. meeting on Syria: ‘Time is short’
Kerry urged the U.N. to sign off on a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Syria at next week's meeting in New York -- hours after Russian President Putin expressed doubt that such a plan would work. Read More
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Camelot’s next chapter: Caroline Kennedy en route to Japan ambassadorship
A half-century after her father was president, Caroline Kennedy may get her own government job. Read More
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Putin doubts that Syria will hand over weapons
After brokering a deal to cede Syrian weapons to international control -- and avoiding the imminent threat of a western military strike -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he is not certain the plan will work. Read More
![(L-R) Chief of Naval Operations Jonathan Greenert, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Navy Secretary Ray Maybus, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Sandy Winnfeld arrive for a wreath laying ceremony in honor of the Navy Yard shooting victims, at the U.S. Navy Memorial, September 17, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20131004224431im_/http://msnbctv.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/180877697.jpg?w=196&h=148&crop=1)
Pentagon pledges security fixes after rampage
The Pentagon ordered a review of security procedures after the 2009 Fort Hood massacre. So how did a troubled individual like Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis gain a security clearance? Read More
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Newtown mom: Gun control ‘conversation needs to be renewed’
Nicole Hockley, whose six-year-old son Dylan was killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School just nine months ago, made an impassioned call for gun control in the wake of Monday's mass shooting at Navy Yard. Read More
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IG report: Flawed security a known Naval station issue
Lawmakers are pointing to a new Inspector General report to answer why security at Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard -- the site of Monday's shooting -- failed to stop a lone gunman bent on a rampage that ultimately killed 12 people. Read More
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UN: Nerve agent delivered by rockets in Syria
The United Nations said Monday that chemical weapons were used in an Aug. 21 attack outside of Damascus, marking the worst chemical attack against civilians in a quarter century. Read More
![In this citizen journalism image released on Thursday, May 2, 2013 by a group that calls itself The Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man, center, identifies dead bodies, who were killed according to activists by Syrian forces loyal to Bashar Assad, in Bayda village, in the mountains outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria. Syria's main opposition group on Friday accused President Bashar Assad's regime of committing a "large-scale massacre" in a Sunni village near the Mediterranean coast, killing scores of people, according to activists. (Photo by The Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad/AP)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20131004224431im_/http://msnbctv.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ap566492218536.jpg?w=196&h=148&crop=1)
Slaughter in Syria: Witnesses tell of mass executions
While recent diplomacy has focused on chemical weapons, the Assad regime has killed thousands of civilians with conventional weapons. Horrifying details from a new report. Read More
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Rogers: Obama lacked ‘steely resolve of a commander-in-chief’
The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., told NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell Wednesday that he was “disappointed’ in President Obama’s address to the nation on the Syrian conflict Tuesday night. Read More