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VILNIUS, Lithuania AP 鈥?Russias war in Ukraine will top the agenda when U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts hold a summit in Lithuania capital over two days starting Tuesday.They are expected to focus on ensuring that Ukraine has support as long as the conflict continues, how to bring the country even closer to NATO without actually joining, and security guarantees Kyiv might need to ensure that Russia doesn ;t i
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WASHINGTON 鈥?The Trump administration on Wednesday asked Congress for $29 billion in disaster aid to cover ongoing hurricane relief and recovery efforts and to pay federal flood insurance claims.The request comes as the government is spending almost $200 million a day for emergency hurricane response and faces a surge in flood claims for federally insured homes and businesses slammed by hur
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BERLIN AP 鈥?German government officials held talks Tuesday with their Polish counterparts asking them to clarify how many visas were issued in an illegal program in which some Polish consulates issued visas in Africa and Asia in exchange for bribes, an official sai
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Egypt former leader Hosni Mubarak and two of his sons will face trial with a potential death sentence for the killing of civilians in protests earlier this year that ultimately led to Mubarak resignation, Egypt public prosecutor announced Tuesday.Mubarak, 82, left office on Feb. 11 after weeks of mass demonstrations by protesters calling on him to resign. A crackdown by his government and its supporters left more than 800 people dead during the uprising.Since then, Mubarak has been in a legal limbo. Following his ouster, he returned to his luxury home in the Sinai resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. The military government later announced he had been put under house arrest. In April, he reportedly suffered a heart attack while being questioned by Egyptian authorities and was sent to a hospital, where
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Fresh from a visit to Buffalo, New York to mourn with grieving families on Tuesday, President Joe Biden exhorted the nation to reject what he angrily labeled the poison of white supremacy.Watch Biden remarks in the player above.Speaking at a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Biden asked: We have to not only talk about how we ;re going to end the hate, but who responsible for generating it You have folks on television stations talking about the replacement theory, he said, they ;re scaring the living hell out of people who don ;t have a whole lot of emotional stability, taking advantage of on the Internet and other means by talking about how we ;re going to be overtaken.CONTEXT: What is great replacement theory and how does it fuel racist violence In Buffalo
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. AP 鈥?Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville has recaptured a U.S. Senate seat for Republicans by defeating Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama. Jones been widely been considered the Senates most endangered Democrat.Republicans had made taking back the once reliably conservative seat a priority in 2020. Tuberville, who has never held public office and last coached four years ago, aligned himself closely with President Donald Trump and declared in the primary campaign: God sent us Donald Trump. Alabama, welcome back to the Republican U.S. Senate, Tuberville shouted after taking the stage to loud cheers at his election night party in downtown Montgomery. He said his victory shows that the seat can ;t be bought by donors from other states.Tuberville took a congratulatory call from Vice President Mike Pence on stage after his victory was declared. Thank you for delivering a great victory for President Donald Trump and thank you for sending a great new senator to the United States Senate,
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