EUCOM commander’s Washington visit is cut short

The top U.S. commander in Europe cut short a visit to Washington and will return to Brussels to address rising tensions over Russia’s potential ground invasion of eastern Ukraine.

  

  

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Top NATO Commander Cuts Short US Visit as Russian Troops Mass on Ukrainian Border

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has sent America’s top general in Europe back early from a trip to Washington in what a spokesman on Sunday called a prudent step given Russia’s “lack of transparency” about troop movements across the border with Ukraine.
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Top NATO Commander Cuts Short US Visit as Russian Troops Mass on Ukrainian Border

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has sent America’s top general in Europe back early from a trip to Washington in what a spokesman on Sunday called a prudent step given Russia’s “lack of transparency” about troop movements across the border with Ukraine.
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Jet search cut short; new satellite spots objects

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This graphic released by the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency on Wednesday March 26, 2014, shows satellite imagery taken on March 23, 2014, with the approximate positions of objects seen floating in the southern Indian Ocean in the search zone for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370….
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Velocity Then Inflation?

Several people have written recently telling me that price inflation is under control only because the velocity of money (the alleged rate at which money circulates) is falling.
Reader Mark pinged me with this statement “Falling velocity is deflationary. It indicates people are saving…
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Turmoil in Turkey and Washington’s Short Leash

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Former Miss America Comes Up Short in GOP Primary

Former Miss America Erika Harold lost her longshot bid on Tuesday to unseat first-term Rep. Rodney Davis as Illinois primary voters cast their ballots.
In the Senate race, state Sen. Jim Oberweis’ victory over Doug Truax sends him on to a November matchup with Dick Durbin, the No. 2…
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Open thread for night owls: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Condoleeza Rice’s short memory about Iraq

At The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on Condoleeza Rice with As Though Iraq Never Happened:

I don’t really understand how any editorial by Condoleezza Rice on conflict in Ukraine can fail to directly address the failures of the Iraq War. But here is Rice arguing for American…
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Stocks end higher but fall short of record high

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A trader works in his booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. U.S. stocks are inching higher in early trading, putting the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on track for its third straight week of gains. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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PLO Official: US Ideas for Peace Deal Fall Short

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