A.M. Links: NYC’s Mayor-Elect Planning To Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages, Russians Round Up Dozens After Bombings, Many Latvians Don’t Want To Adopt the Euro

• New York City’s Mayor-Elect Bill
  de Blasio is planning to ban horse-drawn carriages, which
  he believes are inhumane.
• Secretary of State
  John Kerry will present a “framework proposal” relating to
  peace talks to Israeli and Palestinian leaders later this
  week.

• The journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has reported on Edward
  Snowden’s leaks, says that the
  NSA does not have access to in-flight communications.
• Nearly
  half of Latvians oppose their country adopting the Euro, which
  it will do tomorrow.
• U.S. population growth is at its
  slowest rate in over 70 years, with an increase of only 2.26
  million in the twelve months before July 1, 2013.
• Russian authorities have
  rounded up dozens of people in the wake of the recent suicide
  bombings in the city of Volgograd.

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