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Here is our weekly survey of news stories to round out the week of August 24-30, 2015.
Saudi King Salman is set to visit Washington next week. Will be support or oppose the Iran nuclear deal? http://t.co/dn1oBM0YVR
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) August 28, 2015
Road to 2016: Why Carly Fiorina has a tough climb to make the next debate cutoff. http://t.co/xqRCjNZ0qM via @UpshotNYT
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) August 28, 2015
South Sudan businesses struggle in a ‘war economy’ http://t.co/14IbHYIVHm
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 28, 2015
Not a single school day will go by in Miami-Dade this year without a student taking a standardized test http://t.co/tgo2xiQHKs
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) August 28, 2015
24% of smartphone owners use their phones in public for no particular reason. http://t.co/3r4YByxGkd pic.twitter.com/UfkAYlJbAb
— PewResearch Internet (@pewinternet) August 27, 2015
What hasn’t killed Donald Trump has only made him stronger http://t.co/rX0NyvEpyO
— POLITICO (@politico) August 28, 2015
Social Security is running nearly $26 trillion in future unfunded liabilities, says @MTannerCato: http://t.co/CF1pW3Jc9Q
— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) August 28, 2015
Rights Groups Stirring Over Sudan President’s Travels http://t.co/1nLkgS9hAq
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) August 28, 2015
Colombia and Venezuela recall ambassadors amid border crisis http://t.co/30S5zx0XYi
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 28, 2015
Opinion: Severe trauma is a fertile ground for extremism http://t.co/DT7DeUo2Wv pic.twitter.com/BYPOXBgAwe
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 28, 2015
Can the Republican party survive Donald Trump? http://t.co/IilPTDkBKI pic.twitter.com/JEzVL2oSgN
— National Journal (@nationaljournal) August 28, 2015
Can China’s one-child policy enforcers transform rural education? http://t.co/mlhsypDfje pic.twitter.com/Ts7bQVR5jt
— The WorldPost (@TheWorldPost) August 28, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s team is getting tired of the Joe Biden talk. And this week, they want to kill it. http://t.co/4gaGJBWe03
— POLITICO (@politico) August 28, 2015
Israel’s public security minister fights back against critics of new Israel Police chief http://t.co/4dE56fWsYK pic.twitter.com/p4jKbadbVa
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) August 28, 2015
“The results in this part of the American experiment are not encouraging.” @michaelbd on guns: http://t.co/LkkULrU8Is pic.twitter.com/3Lm4jJTWIP
— The Week (@TheWeek) August 28, 2015