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A.M. Links: Obama Plots Unilateral Climate Change Action, IRS Ethics Lawyer Faces Disbarment, Cease-Fire Holds in Gaza

Damon Root | 8.27.2014 9:00 AM


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    "The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress."

  • A lawyer in the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility may be stripped of her license to practice law after allegedly lying to a court-appointed board.
  • The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is holding. But for how long?
  • The California Senate has passed legislation banning the use of warrantless drones by law enforcement.
  • The U.S. is reportedly recruiting allies for possible military action in Syria.
  • NATO is planning to build new bases in eastern Europe to counter Russian aggression.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books).