Nation and World Politics
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Russia and North Korea sign partnership deal that appears to be the strongest since Cold War
Jun 19, 2024 6:07 am - SEOUL, South Korea — Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a new partnership that includes a vow of mutual aid if either country is ...
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Majority of Americans favor forgiving medical debt, AP-NORC poll finds
Jun 18, 2024 7:42 am - NEW YORK — Janille Williams wants to buy a house someday — but first, he has to pay down tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt. “I was hospitalized for a blood in...
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Half a million immigrants could eventually get U.S. citizenship under a new plan from Biden
Jun 18, 2024 7:40 am - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is taking an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the ...
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Netanyahu dissolves influential War Cabinet after key partner bolted from government
Jun 17, 2024 12:34 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the influential War Cabinet that has overseen the fighting in Gaza, a government spokesperson said ...
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The IRS wants to end another major tax loophole for the wealthy and raise $50 billion in the process
Jun 17, 2024 8:16 am - WASHINGTON — The IRS plans to end a major tax loophole for wealthy taxpayers that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade, the U.S. Treasury Dep...
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Biden's campaign announces a $50 million advertising blitz highlighting Trump's conviction
Jun 17, 2024 8:13 am - President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is spending $50 million through the end of June, a blitz that includes its first television ad trumpeting Donald Trump’s felony ...
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Putin to visit North Korea for talks with Kim Jong Un, both countries say
Jun 17, 2024 7:24 am - SEOUL, South Korea — Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea for a two-day visit starting Tuesday, both countries announced, amid international concerns a...
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US aircraft carrier counters false Houthi claims with 'Taco Tuesdays' as deployment stretches on
Jun 17, 2024 7:22 am - ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IN THE RED SEA — The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy, but it's still fighting — d...
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 massacre
Jun 14, 2024 9:27 am - The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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U.S. Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebelsJun 14, 2024 7:56 am - ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA — The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world's waterways. Bu...