OCH to seek partnership with city on EMS district
OCH Regional Medical Center appeal to the Starkville Board of Aldermen Tuesday in a bid to keep ambulance service unified through the county as Starkville considers partnering with a private company to create an emergency medical service district.
GOP sees Iran nuclear deal as chance to gain Jewish voters
Republicans are trying to seize on President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and strained ties with Israel’s leader to cultivate Jewish voters, reasoning that a small shift in the margins could help them in battleground states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Has he got a deal for you: Obama eagerly pitching Iran deal
Part pitchman, part physics teacher, President Barack Obama is taking on the job of selling the Iran-nuclear deal with the gusto of a salesman who won’t take no for an answer.
Lower oil prices may trickle out of Iran deal
Oil prices that slumped steeply earlier this year may decline again once a historic deal between the West and Iran allows that country to start pouring more crude into a market already brimming with supply.
GOP candidates slam Iran deal, but will it play in 2016?
The Iran nuclear deal was only a few hours old when Republican White House hopefuls began vowing to overturn it.
18-day negotiation yields landmark Iran nuclear accord
After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, world powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions — an agreement designed to avert the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and another U.S. military intervention in the Muslim world.
After deal, Israel still vows to block an Iran nuclear bomb
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called today’s nuclear deal with Iran a mistake of “historic proportions” and vowed to keep up efforts to block the Islamic Republic from obtaining an atomic bomb.
Iran at talks: No scrapping any nuclear facility
Iran drew a red line on Tuesday on how far it would go at landmark nuclear talks, saying as the meeting opened that it would not buckle to pressure from the U.S. and five other world powers to scrap any of its nuclear facilities.
Iran says it is developing new centrifuges
Iran’s nuclear chief said the country is building a new generation of centrifuges for uranium enrichment but that they need further tests before they can be mass produced, apparently trying to counter hard-liner criticism of its nuclear deal with word powers.
White House greets budget deal with caution, hope
There were no champagne corks popping at the White House after Congress passed a two-year budget deal, no declarations of a new era of cooperation in President Barack Obama’s second term.
U.S.: Tough sanctions on Iran remain despite deal
The Obama administration said on Friday that it was maintaining tough oil-related sanctions against Iran even though the U.S. and five other world powers have signed an initial deal with Tehran to curb its nuclear program and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
Former hostages react to Iran’s nuclear deal
A nuclear deal between the U.S., Iran and other world powers has been described as a trust-building step after decades of animosity that hopefully will lead to a more comprehensive deal down the road.
Easing of Iran sanctions could start in Dec.
Sanctions against Iran could be eased as soon as December, France’s foreign minister said Monday, after a potentially history-shaping deal that gives Tehran six months to increase access to its nuclear sites in exchange for keeping the central elements of its uranium program.
Hard bargains in Geneva on Iran nuclear deal
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and five foreign ministers launched an intensive diplomatic push Saturday to close a deal curbing Tehran’s nuclear program while cautioning that significant obstacles remained on the fourth day of marathon talks.
U.S. officials: Nuke deal offers Iran minor relief
WASHINGTON — Iran would get only minor relief from economic sanctions under an international proposal to prevent it from producing nuclear weapons, two Obama administration