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• Obama looks to take fight to Islamic State in Libya
• Group said trapped in cellar become focus in Turkey's Kurdish conflict
• Kerry says he expects Canada to outline role against Islamic State
• Oil rises, pares losses in January on hopes for production deal
• Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, and more A-listers join espionage thriller Official Secrets
• The Latest: MSF: Starvation deaths in besieged Syrian town
• Syrian opposition to go to Geneva as peace talks open
• British mother convicted of joining IS in Syria with young child
• Dutch to join US-led airstrikes against IS in Syria
• Anti-IS alliance to meet in Rome
• Kerry to attend Rome, London talks on Islamic State, Syria
• Soccer-Players at Greek match stage protest in support of migrants
• Short prison terms for 2 linked to secret Navy silencer deal
• Dutch jets to join bombing of Islamic State targets in Syria
• Strike on IS cyber-fighter killed 3 civilians: US Army
• 'Many months' before start of battle for Mosul: coalition
• Electricity supply in Iraq's Kurdistan region hit by blast
• Qatar football squad fails to qualify for Rio Olympics
• British mother convicted of joining ISIS in Syria with young child
• Iraqi Children Foundation to host 4th annual "In Their Shoes" 5k Run/Walk
• European nations slap new restrictions on migrants
• Film Friday (1/29): This Week's New Movie Trailers
• Trump debate flap throws Republican party into deeper chaos
• Iraq beats Qatar to get last Asian spot in Olympic soccer
• U.S.-led strikes likely killed five civilians in Iraq, Syria: statement
• Iran pushes OPEC oil output to new high as sanctions are lifted - Reuters survey
• 'Robust' domestic probes would pre-empt ICC charges against UK soldiers: minister
• With Latam visit, Turkey's Erdogan seeks to bolster trade
• 'Raped' German-Russian teen spent night at friend's house: Berlin
• French police question Disneyland gun-carrier, militant links not seen
• Netherlands to join US-led air strikes in Syria: official
• India arrests three 'Islamists' deported from Abu Dhabi
• Keeping migrants in Greece not a solution: HRW
• Slovakia says migrant quota system not working, urges rethink
• Why does the Pentagon need an Iron Man suit?
• Iranian oil output recovering as first cargoes sold to Europe: sources
• Babylonians Tracked Jupiter with Fancy Math, Tablet Reveals
• Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Dormer to star in spy thriller
• White House Brief: Things to know about Hillary Clinton
• White House Brief: Things to know about Jeb Bush

Obama looks to take fight to Islamic State in Libya Posted: 29 Jan 2016 04:02 PM PST President Barack Obama has asked key advisors to draw up options for ratcheting up the fight against the Islamic State group, including opening a new front in Libya. Eighteen months after a US-led coalition began airstrikes against IS in Iraq and Syria, multiple administration sources said Friday that the White House wants to speed up and broaden the effort. Efforts will deepen to retake Raqa in Syria, Mosul in Iraq and to check the jihadists' growth in Afghanistan, but there is an increasing focus on Libya.

Group said trapped in cellar become focus in Turkey's Kurdish conflict Posted: 29 Jan 2016 03:51 PM PST By Melih Aslan and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and the pro-Kurdish opposition traded blame on Friday over the fate of more than 20 people it says have been trapped for a week in a cellar in a southeastern town as fighting rages between security forces and Kurdish militants. Six of 28 people trapped in the basement of a residential building, under 24-hour curfew, in the town of Cizre have died over the past week and others are seriously wounded, according to the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Three members of the HDP, the third biggest party in Turkey's parliament, have gone on hunger strike in protest at a failure to rescue the group, whose fate has become a focal point in the region's worst violence in decades.

Kerry says he expects Canada to outline role against Islamic State Posted: 29 Jan 2016 03:47 PM PST By Lesley Wroughton QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he expects Canada to announce in the coming weeks what role it will play in an international coalition fighting Islamic State forces in Syria and Iraq. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who won an election last October promising to withdraw six fighter jets from a U.S.-led coalition attacking the militants, has yet to state what Canada plans to do once those planes are pulled out. "I am absolutely confident that the prime minister and his security team are working on ways to continue their significant contribution" to the coalition, Kerry told reporters after meeting his Canadian and Mexican counterparts in Quebec City.

Oil rises, pares losses in January on hopes for production deal Posted: 29 Jan 2016 02:45 PM PST Oil prices rose on Friday, rebounding more than 25 percent from 12-year lows hit last week and cutting losses for the month, on prospects of a deal between major exporters to cut production and curb one of the biggest supply gluts in history. Meanwhile, the U.S. oil drilling rig count fell for the sixth straight week with more cuts seen, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said.

Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, and more A-listers join espionage thriller Official Secrets Posted: 29 Jan 2016 01:29 PM PST As if the subject matter of the upcoming espionage drama  Official Secrets wasn't enough to generate considerable buzz, the first casting news for the based-on-a-true-story project features a long list of A-list actors and rising stars. Harrison Ford ( Star Wars ) and Sir Anthony Hopkins  (The Silence of the Lambs ) are just two of the actors attached to the film, which is based on the best-selling book The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War: Katherine Gun and The Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion . Ford and Hopkins will be joined by The Avengers actor Paul Bettany, Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer, and  The Hobbit (and  Sherlock ) actor Martin Freeman in the cast as just the first set of actors attached to the film. Related: Harrison Ford to help hype Star Wars theme park attractions during Disney special Set to be directed by Justin Chadwick ( Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom , The Other Boleyn Girl ), the film features a screenplay by Sara and Gregory Bernstein that's based on the 2008 novel by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell. The book's synopsis reads as follows: British secret service officer Katharine Gun's only crime was telling the truth, but she paid a steep price when she exposed a U.S.-U.K. spy operation to secure U.N. authorization for the Iraq invasion. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this book tells the story of the young woman Sean Penn describes as "a hero of the human spirit." Gun will be portrayed by Dormer in the film, with Bettany playing the British newspaper reporter who learns of Gun's discovery of the illegal NSA spy operation that facilitated passage of the U.N. resolution for war. Freeman will play the foreign affairs editor at the British newspaper  The Observer , with Hopkins cast as a retired U.K. general and Ford in the role of a CIA agent involved inthe operation. Official Secrets  is expected to begin filming in May in the U.K. Also watch: No charges for drone slayer, Harrison Ford is a hot dog Please enable Javascript to watch this video

The Latest: MSF: Starvation deaths in besieged Syrian town Posted: 29 Jan 2016 01:23 PM PST GENEVA (AP) — The Latest on U.N.-hosted peace talks for the Syrian civil war in Geneva (all times local):

Syrian opposition to go to Geneva as peace talks open Posted: 29 Jan 2016 01:12 PM PST By Tom Miles and Tom Perry GENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's main opposition group agreed to travel to Geneva, where the United Nations on Friday opened peace talks to end the country's five-year-old war, but said it wanted to discuss humanitarian issues before engaging in political negotiations. On the ground, opponents of President Bashar al-Assad said they were facing a Russian-backed military onslaught, with hundreds of civilians reported to be fleeing as the Syrian army and allied militia tried to capture a suburb of Damascus and finish off rebels defending it. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura had invited the Syrian government and an opposition umbrella group to Geneva for "proximity talks", in which they would meet in separate rooms.

British mother convicted of joining IS in Syria with young child Posted: 29 Jan 2016 01:04 PM PST A 26-year-old mother who took her toddler son to Syria and posted pictures of him next to a weapon has been convicted of belonging to Islamic State (IS). Tareena Shakil was found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday of joining IS and encouraging terrorism on social media. The 26-year-old boarded a plane to Turkey in October 2014 with her one-year-old boy, crossed the border into Syria and spent three months there, West Midlands police said in a statement.

Dutch to join US-led airstrikes against IS in Syria Posted: 29 Jan 2016 12:21 PM PST THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government said Friday it plans to join the U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State group in Syria with airstrikes.

Anti-IS alliance to meet in Rome Posted: 29 Jan 2016 12:14 PM PST The US-led coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group is to meet next week in Rome, the State Department said, confirming Secretary of State John Kerry will attend. Kerry is due in Rome on Tuesday for the conference. According to the State Department, the members of the coalition to be represented will include Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.

Kerry to attend Rome, London talks on Islamic State, Syria Posted: 29 Jan 2016 12:09 PM PST U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will attend a gathering in Rome on Tuesday of countries fighting Islamic State militants and then go on to London the next day for an aid conference on Syria, the State Department said. Kerry makes the trip as the United Nations is having trouble starting indirect peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition to try to end the nearly five-year civil war in which more than 250,000 people have been killed. The so-called proximity talks, in which U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura would speak separately to each side in Geneva, were supposed to begin on Monday but were postponed amid uncertainty about whether the opposition would attend.

Soccer-Players at Greek match stage protest in support of migrants Posted: 29 Jan 2016 12:05 PM PST (Adds quotes) By Graham Wood ATHENS, Jan 29 - A Greek soccer match was delayed on Friday when players staged a sit-down protest in a moving tribute to migrants who have lost their lives trying to reach Greece's Aegean islands. The show of solidarity took place before the kickoff of the second-tier Football League match between home side AEL Larissa and Acharnaikos in the Thessalian city of Larissa.

Short prison terms for 2 linked to secret Navy silencer deal Posted: 29 Jan 2016 12:02 PM PST ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Even in the Byzantine world of government contracting, this particular deal stood out: $1.7 million to build 350 untraceable assault-rifle silencers for the Navy, awarded on a no-bid basis to a race-car mechanic whose brother happened to be a senior naval official pushing the deal.

Dutch jets to join bombing of Islamic State targets in Syria Posted: 29 Jan 2016 12:00 PM PST By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Netherlands will broaden its role in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State to include the bombing of IS targets in Syria, the government said on Friday. A Dutch squadron of six F-16 fighter jets is already stationed in the region, but was hitherto limited to striking Islamic State positions in Iraq. The aircraft will now be active over Syria until July 1, targeting Islamic State insurgent operations and training camps, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told journalists in The Hague.

Strike on IS cyber-fighter killed 3 civilians: US Army Posted: 29 Jan 2016 11:48 AM PST An American bombardment that killed an Islamic State group cyber-operative in Syria last August also killed three civilians, the US Army acknowledged on Friday. The bombing August 24 in the IS stronghold of Raqqa, which killed cyber-combatant Junaid Hussain, was one of four incidents alleged to have caused civilian casualties that the US Central Command said it had closely analyzed. "It was assessed three civilians in the vicinity of the strikes were killed and five more were injured," said the Central Command, which is in charge of American forces in the Middle East and North Africa.

'Many months' before start of battle for Mosul: coalition Posted: 29 Jan 2016 11:05 AM PST An assault to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group won't start for many months, a spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting the jihadists said Friday. Iraq's second largest city fell to IS fighters in June 2014 as they overran vast regions in northern and north-central Iraq, as well as in Syria. Iraqi security forces who were supposed to secure the city collapsed in the face of the extremists' advance.

Electricity supply in Iraq's Kurdistan region hit by blast Posted: 29 Jan 2016 10:54 AM PST A pipeline for gas used to generate around half the electricity in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region was blown up on Friday, knocking out power, a police chief and electricity official told Reuters. The explosion struck the pipeline in the Qader Karam district of Kirkuk, according to police chief Serhad Qader, who said it was caused by two homemade bombs. The pipeline feeds gas from the Khor Mor field to two power plants in the Erbil and Sulaimaniyah provinces of the Kurdistan region, which already suffers from electricity shortages.

Qatar football squad fails to qualify for Rio Olympics Posted: 29 Jan 2016 10:37 AM PST Qatar failed to qualify for their first Olympics since 1992 after losing 2-1 to Iraq in Doha on Friday in a sudden death AFC Under-23 football match to decide which team would go to Rio. Iraq won in extra time after only forcing the additional 30 minutes thanks to an 86th minute headed equaliser from Mohannad Abdulraheem. Hosts Qatar had taken the lead in the 27th minute through Ahmed Alaa.

British mother convicted of joining ISIS in Syria with young child Posted: 29 Jan 2016 10:31 AM PST A 26-year-old mother who took her toddler son to Syria and posted pictures of him next to a weapon has been convicted of belonging to Islamic State (IS). Tareena Shakil was found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday of joining IS and encouraging terrorism on social media. The 26-year-old boarded a plane to Turkey in October 2014 with her one-year-old boy, crossed the border into Syria and spent three months there, West Midlands police said in a statement.

Iraqi Children Foundation to host 4th annual "In Their Shoes" 5k Run/Walk Posted: 29 Jan 2016 10:23 AM PST ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Iraqi Children Foundation (ICF) will host its 4th Annual "In Their Shoes" 5k run/walk on May 14, 2016 at the US Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. The 5K is a benefit for Iraq's most vulnerable children - orphans, street children, and kids displaced by ISIS.According to the UN, more than one million children have been displaced since 2014 as ISIS advanced. Earlier, in 2012, UNICEF reported there were an estimated 800,000 orphans after 10 years of war. ...

European nations slap new restrictions on migrants Posted: 29 Jan 2016 10:19 AM PST In the last few months of 2015, six out of the 26 members of Europe's Schengen passport-free zone reestablished provisional border controls, without closing the frontiers altogether. While Austria, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden, did so in a bid to better control the influx of migrants, France also reestablished checks in reaction to the terrorist threat after last November's multiple attacks. More than one million migrants entered Europe in 2015, in what is the biggest migration crisis since World War II.

Film Friday (1/29): This Week's New Movie Trailers Posted: 29 Jan 2016 10:17 AM PST Get a quick update on the latest film news and watch all of this week's new film trailers, including looks at The Divergent Series: Allegiant, The Bronze, Nine Lives, Cemetery of Splendor, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Confirmation, and more. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at Metacritic

Trump debate flap throws Republican party into deeper chaos Posted: 29 Jan 2016 09:58 AM PST By James Oliphant DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - As seven Republican presidential contenders squared off here for the final debate before voters begin winnowing the field, Donald Trump presided over his own, separate rally a mile away in front of a packed house of cheering supporters. It would be hard to find a more ideal metaphor for the forces tearing asunder the Republican Party. For months, Trump has chosen to operate in his own political universe, violating the conventional wisdom that governs presidential campaigns, thumbing his nose at conservative institutions ranging from the Fox News Channel to the National Review and advocating policies at odds with party orthodoxy.

Iraq beats Qatar to get last Asian spot in Olympic soccer Posted: 29 Jan 2016 09:40 AM PST DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Iraq pipped Qatar to the last Olympic qualifying place for Asian nations at the Rio de Janeiro Games after a 2-1 win on Friday in a third-place playoff match at the Asian Under-23 Championship in Doha.

U.S.-led strikes likely killed five civilians in Iraq, Syria: statement Posted: 29 Jan 2016 09:37 AM PST Five civilians were killed and eight wounded during U.S-coalition air strikes targeting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria between July 27 and Oct. 15, the coalition leading the military operations said in a statement on Friday. It was the fifth time the coalition has issued a statement acknowledging civilian casualties in the campaign against Islamic State, which began in August 2014. The deaths bring to at least 21 the number of civilians likely killed in the air strikes.

Iran pushes OPEC oil output to new high as sanctions are lifted - Reuters survey Posted: 29 Jan 2016 08:50 AM PST OPEC oil production has jumped to its highest in recent history in January as Iran increased sales following the lifting of sanctions and its rivals Saudi Arabia and Iraq also boosted supply, a Reuters survey showed on Friday. The January supply figures contrast with statements from multiple OPEC officials and recent comments from non-OPEC Russia about the need to cooperate and possibly restrain supply to help oil prices to recover. Iran provided the biggest increase in supply among the OPEC members, the survey found.

'Robust' domestic probes would pre-empt ICC charges against UK soldiers: minister Posted: 29 Jan 2016 08:46 AM PST By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Britain's legal system is robust enough to avoid the risk of British soldiers being prosecuted by the International Criminal Court over alleged human rights abuses in Iraq, a senior British government official said. The global war crimes court, of which Britain is a founding member, has for the past two years been investigating allegations that British soldiers maltreated prisoners in Iraq between 2003 and 2008. The investigation has touched raw nerves in Britain, whose major role in the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq was enormously divisive at home, leading to a succession of contested and long-running public inquiries.

With Latam visit, Turkey's Erdogan seeks to bolster trade Posted: 29 Jan 2016 08:35 AM PST By Orhan Coskun and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan heads to Latin America on Sunday with the aim of boosting trade ties as Turkey seeks to diversify away from its traditional export markets in the troubled economies of Europe and the Middle East. In his first visit to the region in a year, Erdogan will lead a large business delegation to Chile, Peru and Ecuador. Turkey has been slowly strengthening its relationship with Latin America since the late 1990s, when one of his predecessors, Suleyman Demirel, became the first Turkish president to make an official visit.

'Raped' German-Russian teen spent night at friend's house: Berlin Posted: 29 Jan 2016 08:20 AM PST A 13-year-old Russian-German girl who ignited an international row by saying she was raped by migrants was actually sleeping at a friend's house on the night in question, Berlin prosecutors said Friday. Authorities in the German capital said their investigation had concluded that the account of the girl's kidnapping and sexual assault this month by three men from "southern countries" had no basis in fact, despite high-level Russian claims to the contrary. "Using data from her broken mobile phone, we were able to access information about a young German man aged 19 -- an acquaintance of the 13-year-old girl," prosecutor's office spokesman Martin Steltner told AFP.

French police question Disneyland gun-carrier, militant links not seen Posted: 29 Jan 2016 07:30 AM PST Initial questioning of a man arrested with handguns and a Koran in his baggage at the Disney theme park near Paris suggests he had no link to any potential militant attack, but he will remain in custody, police and public prosecutors said on Friday. France has been in a state of emergency since Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in a wave of jihadist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13. The 28-year-old man, who police said was of European origin, was detained on Thursday as he passed through security scanners at a Disneyland hotel.

Netherlands to join US-led air strikes in Syria: official Posted: 29 Jan 2016 07:16 AM PST The Hague (AFP) - The Netherlands has agreed to join US-led air strikes in Syria, extending its current mission over Iraq, Dutch officials announced Friday, bowing to a request from the United States.

India arrests three 'Islamists' deported from Abu Dhabi Posted: 29 Jan 2016 07:12 AM PST Indian counter-terror police have arrested three alleged Islamist radicals suspected of conspiring to stage an attack on India, after they were deported from the United Arab Emirates, an official said Friday. The three Indian nationals were arrested on arrival at New Delhi airport from Abu Dhabi by investigators from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), a federal police unit that probes terror offences. "The NIA has registered a case against Sheikh Azhar Al Islam, Mohammad Farhan and Adnan Hussain," an NIA official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Keeping migrants in Greece not a solution: HRW Posted: 29 Jan 2016 06:14 AM PST Forcing Greece to become a "warehouse" for migrants is no solution to Europe's crisis, Human Rights Watch said Friday, adding that it would be wrong to send asylum seekers back to Turkey. "Greece has its fair share of responsibility for the situation on the ground, but turning the country into a warehouse is no solution to Europe's refugee crisis," HRW Greece specialist Eva Cosse said in a statement. The European Union this week said Greece could face border controls with the rest of the passport-free Schengen zone if it fails to protect the bloc's frontier.

Slovakia says migrant quota system not working, urges rethink Posted: 29 Jan 2016 06:14 AM PST Slovakia's foreign minister said on Friday the very low percentage of migrants so far relocated to European Union member states under the bloc's compulsory quota system showed it was not working and he called for a rethink. Eastern EU member states are mostly opposed to the quota system, which is strongly backed by Germany, the main destination for more than one million migrants who have arrived in Europe over the past year, many fleeing conflicts. Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak said only 0.2 percent of a total 160,000 migrants due to take part in the scheme - already a small minority of those now inside the EU - had so far been redistributed among EU member states.

Why does the Pentagon need an Iron Man suit? Posted: 29 Jan 2016 06:07 AM PST When the head of United States Special Operations Command said recently that he hopes his troops will someday soon be wearing super-light, super-strong exoseletons known affectionately as "Iron Man" suits, it might have sounded like a bit of classic Pentagon excess. Then Special Forces Operatives like Paul Scharre share their experiences – in Mr. Scharre's case of coming upon a nest of Taliban at dawn in the mountains of Afghanistan – and the request begins to make more sense.

Iranian oil output recovering as first cargoes sold to Europe: sources Posted: 29 Jan 2016 05:01 AM PST DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Iran is on track to raise oil production by 500,000 barrels per day after the lifting of sanctions this month and has already sold 6 supertankers with additional crude to buyers in Europe and Asia, a Iranian oil source said. The source, familiar with export operations, said three supertankers with additional volumes of crude have been sold to buyers in Europe and three to Asian customers for delivery in February. Trading sources said Litasco, the trading arm of Russia's Lukoil , looked set to become the first buyer in Europe since the lifting of sanctions.

Babylonians Tracked Jupiter with Fancy Math, Tablet Reveals Posted: 29 Jan 2016 04:30 AM PST The brown clay tablet, which could fit in the palm of your hand, is scrawled with hasty, highly abbreviated cuneiform characters. "It sounds minute for a layperson, but this geometry is of a very special kind that is not found anywhere else, for instance, in ancient Greek astronomy," Ossendrijver said. The tablet has long been in the collection at the British Museum in London, and it was likely created in Babylon (located in modern-day Iraq) between 350 and 50 B.C. Ossendrijver recently deciphered the text, and he described his discovery in an article that's featured on the cover of the journal Science this week.

Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Dormer to star in spy thriller Posted: 29 Jan 2016 02:59 AM PST The spy thriller "Official Secrets" has announced a star-studded cast that includes Hollywood heavyweights such as Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins. Based on the 2008 book "The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War: Katharine Gun and The Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion" by Marcia and Thomas Miller, the story is set in 2003, in the months leading up to the Iraq War. "Game of Thrones" star Natalie Dormer will play true-life whistleblower Katharine Gun, a British intelligence officer who leaked top-secret information on the US-UK spy operation to secure UN authorization for the Iraq invasion.

White House Brief: Things to know about Hillary Clinton Posted: 29 Jan 2016 02:40 AM PST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Clinton finds herself in a surprisingly intense contest as her chief rival's late surge revives memories of her surprising loss to then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in Iowa in 2008. The former secretary of state is now offering harsher critiques of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, while working to avoid alienating supporters she would need in the general election. Here's a quick look at some things to know about her.

White House Brief: Things to know about Jeb Bush Posted: 29 Jan 2016 02:35 AM PST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Jeb Bush has undergone a remarkable transformation in the past year, from well-connected Republican establishment favorite for the 2016 presidential nomination to nearly a bit player, fighting for political survival. A look at 62-year-old son and brother of former presidents:

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