Biden administration shut down COVID lab-leak investigation
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As US scales back in Middle East, China and Russia may step in, general says
As the United States scales back its military presence across the Middle East to focus on great power competition with China and Russia, it risks giving those two countries a chance to fill the gap and expand their influence around the Gulf, the top US commander for the region said today. While traveling through the…
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Biden tries to claim credit for cease-fire between Israel and Hamas
‘You know, we’ve held intensive, high-level discussions, hour by hour, literally.’ President Biden sought to take credit for a cease-fire Thursday between Israel and Hamas, despite reports that it was Egypt that brokered the peace. Biden, who spoke at the White House, included a sentence in his remarks commending Egyptian officials for their “critical role” in ending the…
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After Seven Years Of Conflict, Ukraine’s Frontline City Of Mariupol Is ‘Just Tired’ Of The Fighting
MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Inside a small community center on the outskirts of this city in eastern Ukraine, just 20 kilometers from the front lines of Kyiv’s simmering conflict with Moscow-backed separatists, residents gather to learn the basics of first aid and prepare for the possibility of full-scale war with Russia. An eight-hour crash course conducted…
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Israel Gaza conflict: Netanyahu says strikes to ‘continue at full force’
Israel’s military operation against Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza will continue “with full force”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. “We are acting now, for as long as necessary, to restore calm… It will take time,” Mr. Netanyahu warned. Gaza officials said 42 people, including 16 women and 10 children, died in the latest Israeli…
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Biden holds West Wing meeting with six illegal immigrants, ‘We are home’
Six DACA recipients, sometimes called “Dreamers,” were invited to the Oval Office. President Biden invited a group of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients in the Oval Office Friday amid a push for immigration reform in Washington. Biden, facing a mounting migrant crisis at the southern border, is working to extend the DACA program, an Obama-era effort…
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Dems wrestle with whether to nudge a justice off the Supreme Court
Neither Democratic lawmakers nor President Joe Biden is putting overt retirement pressure on the Supreme Court justice — yet, anyway. Even as some liberal groups boot up a “Breyer Retire” campaign, the Democratic Party is sensitive to the justice’s predicament. | Steven Senn/AP Photo Democrats are grappling with judicial déja vu: an aging liberal Supreme…
