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Jordan on edge amid civil war in Syria

Jordanian Foreign Minister Judeh told Andrea Mitchell Wednesday, "The worst case scenario for all of us in the Middle East is for [Syria] to slide into an ethnic and sectarian civil war." Read More

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White House: CIA does not operate detention facilities

In response to a new report on torture released by the Open Society’s Justice Initiative , the White House is unequivocally denying that the CIA operates detention facilities without addressing specific allegations found in the report. Read More

New US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to State Department employees upon arrival at the State Department on February 4, 2013 in Washington, DC. Kerry, the former head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, replaced Hillary Clinton on February 1. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

Fmr. ambassador predicts a ‘very tough agenda’ ahead for new secretary of state

Veteran diplomat Ambassador Nicholas Burns predicted a "very big, very tough agenda" ahead of new secretary of state John Kerry during an interview with Andrea Mitchell Monday. Read More

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GOP senators vow to not back down on Benghazi

"The intelligence community was so vague and--and non-forthcoming, senators on both sides of the aisle left there scratching their heads. So the way this was all presented created a tremendous amount of distrust regarding everything that was happening regarding Benghazi," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said. Read More

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Newly discovered MLK Jr. audio recording unearthed

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said in the tapes about his mother, "She made it very clear that in spite of these conditions you're as good as anybody else." Read More

French army soldiers stand on a Sagaie tank destroyer as they leave Bamako and start their deployment to the north of Mali as part of the "Serval" operations on January 15, 2013 . France is using air and ground power in a joint offensive with Malian soldiers launched on January 11 against hardline Islamist groups controlling northern Mali. (Eric Fererberg/AFP/Getty Images)

No U.S. ‘boots on the ground’ in Mali

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen told Andrea Mitchell that al Qaeda "is like a cancer." But that when it comes to military involvement in Mali, “the United States going to be very reluctant and should be." Read More

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Confessions of a Downton Convert

The author says of her first Downton Abbey viewing: "This was my penance, and my own come-to-Crawley moment.” Read More

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‘Chuck Hagel left the Republican Party,’ says Cornyn

Texas Sen. John Cornyn told Andrea Mitchell that Sen. Chuck Hagel is “profoundly wrong on a number of the most important national security issues that face our country” but did not give a definitive answer on whether he would block Hagel’s nomination as the next Secretary of Defense. Read More