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stanley cup em.Holder backing for a U.S. Sentencing Commission proposal to lower the guideline penalties is part of a broader Justice Department effort to lessen punishment for nonviolent drug dealers. He has been pressing to ease long mandatory sentences and has called for greater discretion for judges in sentencing.This overreliance on incarceration is not just financially unsustainable, it comes with human and moral costs that are impossible to calculate, Holder said in an appearance before the Sentencin
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MOSCOW 鈥?Russia U.N. ambassador has called for an open meeting of the U.N. Security Council Thursday on the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in Britain.Vassily Nebenzia made the request at the end of his speech Wednesday to a council meeting on chemical weapons in Syria.Nebenzia said Russia requested the council meeting because it shares the principle that the use of chemical weapons anywhere is not acceptable and must be investigated and perpetrators punished, and that impunity is unacceptable.Kuwait U.N. Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi told reporters the meeting is scheduled at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday.Nebenzia request follows a meet
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