Bipartisan Senate Talks Push Foreign Policy Beyond Politics
A roughly twenty member Senate group led by Max Baucus seeks nonpartisan progress on foreign policy topics including trade, China, India and Pakistan nuclear issues. Chuck Hagel says leadership matters more than partisan fights as debate continues and actions on Taiwan policy and China measures loom.
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La Nina to replace El Nino in six month forecast
Forecasters say La Nina will replace El Nino within the next six months and persist through winter. The pattern brings warmer Southeast temperatures and cooler Northwest weather, with drier air and weaker winter jet streams over the central and eastern Pacific. More tropical storms may appear in summer.
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Tax break eyed for idled land under conservation program
A U S Tax Court ruling may exempt government payments to Conservation Reserve Program land from self employment tax, aligning them with rent rather than earned income. IRS could appeal within 90 days. the program covers nearly 30 million acres under 10 year contracts.
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