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SAN DIEGO AP 鈥?The Biden administration on Friday announced a major expansion of temporary legal status for Ukrainians already living in the United States, granting a reprieve for those who fled Russia invasion.The move is expected to make 166,700 Ukrainians eligible for Temporary Protected Status, up from about 26,000 currently, the Homeland Security Department said. To qualify, Ukrainians mus
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President Barack Obama says a small U.S. military force may remain in Afghanistan next year, but he promising to declare an end to the 12-year war there at the end of 2014.In his fifth State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama p
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A man protests the health care reform law at a rally in Washington, D.C., last year. Photo by Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty Images.In the most sweeping denouncement of the law to date, a federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that the entire health care overhaul enacted last year is unconstitutional.The decision by U.S. Distri
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Last week ended with two bangs: one literal, one metaphorical.Republicans in the Senate invoked the so-called nuclear option to clear the path for Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump pick for the Supreme Court, a politically divisive move that could have implications for years to come. Trump also authorized a strike that launched 59 Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian airbase, a response to a chemical weapo
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