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Fourteen Nicaraguan priests have now been arrested in a crackdown on the Catholic Church in the Central American country, prompting Pope Francis to call for dialogue during his Monday prayer."I am closely following what is happening in Nicaragua, where bishops and priests are deprived of their liberty," Pope Frances said in Rome on Monday. 

The best way to maximize your Social Security retirement benefits is to wait as long as possible to apply for them -- ideally until age 70, when you can get your highest possible monthly payment....

Fence. medical workers protested outside a u.n. office in gaza city. all believe israeli snipers are deliberately targeting them, a charge the israeli military denies. razan al najjar is the second e sniper, according to the palestinian ministry of health. more than 200 were also injured, many wearing vests like this they were with her when she died. theyll tell me theyll remember her for her bravely and will more than ever continue where she left off. ian lee, cnn, gaza. >> a truly heartbreakin...

Drug addict and would support his daughters execution if she is found guilty. federal investigators releasing new documents revealing the pilot of a u.p.s. cargo yet told a co-worker his work schedule was, quote, killing him, a day before he and his co-pilot were killed in a crash in alabama last august. fox news alert now. the president set to drop social security reforms from his latest budget request. the white house saying his proposal wont include his past offer to accept lowered cost o...

Pandoras box of talking about social security reforms. im all for it. i think the program is really broken. i think these long-term liabilities are a big, big problem. and congratulations to the president for really taking the entitlement problem serious. >> thats why progressives are spitting nail this is week because they dont want a democratic president to be the one putting entitlement changes into a budget proposal. >> yeah, they dont want any of that going on, ever it seems. but also there...

Well, fallout from republican congressman greg waldens opposition to president obamas proposed social security reforms and doing it using progressive left arguments, it continued thursday as house speaker john boehner voiced his disagreement with his friend, the rncc chair on the idea of changing social securitys cost of living adjustments. >> ive made it clear that i disagree with what chairman walden said. this is the least we must do to begin to solve the problems in social security. chairman...

The -- example of grand bargain along the lines of what people are talking about is in 1983, social security reforms. this was the greenspan commission. i want to read a little excerpt of an account of how that came about. mr. greenspan, foal commissioners, met for month, secretly deadlocked. one late afternoon pat moynihan, democratic senator across new york spoke to bob dole, republican of kansas, they cut the deal and brought it out right there. fed it to mr. greenspan and left the details to...

Security. thats the only way you can look at it. republicans did not take the plan. when harry reid was negotiating with senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, the president allegedly asked reid to put social security reforms back on the table, according to multiple accounts, senator reid was so unhappy with the proposal, he threw it into a burning fireplace in his office. the white house says a formal offer on social security was never made. but president obamas position on social security r...

Sleeves, having him in the living quarters, getting them around the table and saying, how can we get this deal done? he didnt talk downstream about tax reform, for example. and i think it would have been helpful to him this morning to have said, look, we get this tax deal done, im here to help on medicare and social security reforms. weve got to address those. instead of just saying im going to protect the seniors who are there and the medicare and medicaid recipients. give a little something. s...

Sleeves, having him in the living quarters, getting them around the table and saying, how can we get this deal done? he didnt talk downstream about tax reform, for example. and i think it would have been helpful to him this morning to have said, look, we get this tax deal done, im here to help on medicare and social security reforms. weve got to address those. instead of just saying im going to protect the seniors who are there and the medicare and medicaid recipients. give a little something. s...