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Republicans hold 54 of the Senate’s 100 seats and would need at least 13 Democrats to vote no. So far, just Senator Chuck Schumer has said he will oppose the deal, while 20 Senate Democrats have said they will support it.

One of the Senate’s leading Democrats, Chuck Schumer of New York, on Thursday announced his decision to oppose the deal aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Tester said he read the agreement, consulted with more than 20 experts and gathered input from Montanans before deciding to support it.

Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Havana for fewer than 12 hours to officiate the reopening of the embassy that was closed in 1961 when the Eisenhower administration severed diplomatic ties with the government of then 34-year-old Fidel Castro. “It remains an...

Retired Marine Corporal Larry Morris, along with two fellow officers who dutifully lowered the flag 54 years ago, presented the Stars and Stripes on Friday to three Marines now part of the detachment in Havana.

According to the Associated Press, Cuban dissidents will not be invited to the embassy event Friday morning with Kerry, a sign of the degree to which US officials are shifting their attention to conventional diplomatic efforts with the Cuban government.

The act itself was routine, but the implications were enormous.

Secretary of State John Kerry doubled down on the controversial Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, telling lawmakers that there was not a better deal available to negotiators and that since 2003 Iran has not pursued a nuclear bomb to the best of America’s knowledge.

She said a congressional vote against the deal would allow Iran to continue “destabilizing activities” while pursuing nuclear weapons.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declared the Iran deal’s inspections regime is “not anywhere, anytime, but with lots of holes in it” in a statement on Monday, a portion of which was broadcast on Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom”. Senator Claire...

Obama’s White House is fighting for the agreement – which would be a legacy achievement for the president – and has plenty of motivation to cast the alternatives as dire. The deal that Secretary of State John Kerry and the other major powers have worked out with...

Critics in this country and overseas who demand a better deal now have an opportunity – and an obligation – to describe it in detail.

“This has made evaluating the agreement a hard and deliberate endeavor, and after deep study, careful thought and considerable soul-searching, I have decided I must oppose the agreement and will vote yes on a motion of disapproval”.

The White House says lawmakers who want to know about agreements between Iran and worldwide nuclear inspectors will get a chance to learn about them in classified briefings.

Only a day after former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani said in an interview with an Arab daily last week that the reopening of the US embassy in Tehran is a possibility, the supreme leader ayatollah Khamenei said that the recent nuclear deal between Iran and world powers...