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The California governor will fly to China to rally support for his climate change policies. ~snip~ “I’m on the side of the angels,” the former Jesuit seminarian said in an interview before flying on Friday to China, where he will rally support for his climate policies next week. “I’m going to do everything I can, and people are going to join with me.” ~snip~ Following Trump’s Rose Garden announcement Thursday, Brown told reporters, “Today’s announcement is tragic in a fundamental way. But it’s also, I guess, to be expected.” He called the withdrawal “insane” and said, “California will resist.”

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is expressing concern about Venezuela's escalating political crisis and wants to meet with leaders on both sides in an upcoming trip. Carter, a mediator of past political conflict in the deeply polarized South American nation, made the offer in private letters he sent this week to President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Expressing "grave concern" about the loss of life in recent protests and the risk of more conflict ahead, Carter in the letter to Capriles said that for dialogue aimed at easing tensions to succeed both side must...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Outraged by the prospect of a U.S. war on Iraq, Ryan Clancy left his music shop in the United States and put himself in harm's way in Baghdad last month to serve as a "human shield" against Iraqi civilian casualties. But, like others, he has found idealism at odds with the hard-nosed reality of Iraqi officialdom. Last month Clancy was among about 50 Western anti-war activists who rode on red double-decker buses to Baghdad after an overland trip that started at London's Tower Bridge. They hoped to avert a U.S.-led war by putting a human face on...