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White House denies bunker-buster bomb agreement
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Barack Obama on Monday that
Israel had still not decided whether to attack Iran. Photo: AFP.
The White House on Thursday denied offering Israel bunker-busting laser-guided bombs to attack nuclear installations in Iran. The denial followed reports in the Israeli press that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had convinced President Obama to supply his country with bunker-busting bombs in order to attack Iran’s underground nuclear sites.
Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline
Environmentalists during a demonstration against the Keystone XL oil pipeline
in Washington last November. Photo: Evan Vucci /AP.
The Obama administration refused to approve the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Wednesday night. Rumors that the project would be rejected started surfacing on Wednesday morning, prompting many Republicans to accuse President Obama of putting his re-election ahead of American jobs.
Rick Santorum takes third place in Iowa
The latest CNN/Time poll puts the former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum
in third place in Iowa with 16 percent of the votes.
The latest CNN / Time telephone poll released on Wednesday shows that Rick Santorum is now in third place in the state of Iowa, behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas Congressman Ron Paul. However, despite his surge in the Hawkeye State, the former Pennsylvania senator acknowledges that his team has “a lot of work to do.”
House passes payroll tax break extension
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid (D-Nev.) said that the Republican proposal to extend the payroll tax cut for another year was 'dead before it got to the Senate'. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images.
The House of Representatives passed Republican legislation to extend the payroll tax bill on Tuesday. However, within minutes of the votes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) warned that the bill was nothing more than “a pointless partisan exercise.” He also added that he thought the bill “was dead on arrival in the Senate. It was dead before it got to the Senate.” A Democrat bill proposing to offset the cost of the payroll tax break with a surtax on incomes exceeding $1 million was rejected on the same day.