Kerry calls doctoring Iran briefing video ‘stupid’

Kerry calls doctoring Iran briefing video ‘stupid’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that whoever doctored several minutes of videotape from a State Department news briefing about the Iran nuclear negotiations was "stupid and clumsy and inappropriate."

Kerry, in Paris for discussions on restarting peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, made his first comments on the incident in which a section of the department's daily briefing was excised from the official video. Earlier in the day, GOP committee chairmen pressed for more information about the incident.

Second pot doc suspended, raising enforcement questions
Massachusetts

Second pot doc suspended, raising enforcement questions

NBP Staff

BOSTON – State regulators have reportedly suspended a second Massachusetts physician over prescribing medical marijuana, saying that more than 4,600 of the certificates needed to obtain the drug legally were issued in his name.

That means suspended Dr. Tyrone S. Cushing, a Newton resident, accounted for more than 15 percent of all the nearly 30,000 certificates issued since April of last year, just before the first medical marijuana dispensary opened in the state, according to state records.

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