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GOP clashes, campus protests to take center stage as Congress returns 2024-04-29
The Hill

Congress is set to reconvene this week amid bitter GOP infighting and explosive protests on college campuses nationwide, two issues that are expected to dominate chatter on Capitol Hill in the coming days. In the House, which returns on Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is again in hot water with...

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Florida’s 6-week abortion ban set to take effect this week 2024-04-29
CNN

A stricter abortion law is set to take effect in Florida on Wednesday — dropping the state’s 15-week ban to a six-week ban — and it will likely affect thousands of people seeking abortion care within the first month alone. Florida has become a key abortion access point amid widespread restrictions...

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Oklahoma towns hard hit by tornadoes begin long cleanup after 4 killed in weekend storms 2024-04-29
Wtop

SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — Small towns in Oklahoma began a long cleanup Monday after tornadoes flattened homes and buildings and killed four people, including an infant, widening a destructive outbreak of severe weather across the middle of the U.S. Punishing storms that began late Saturday in Oklahoma...

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Biden is up against nostalgia for Trump’s first term 2024-04-29
Egypt Independent

CNN — President Joe Biden is casting the 2024 election partly as a referendum on Donald Trump, but it’s a harder card to play now that he’s in office and some voters have warming memories of the former president’s chaotic term. The presumptive GOP nominee is showing progress in gathering the...

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Dozens of tornadoes plow central US, at least 5 killed 2024-04-29
The Daily Tribune - Bahrain

An exceptional number of tornadoes have ravaged parts of Oklahoma and nearby Great Plains states, leaving at least five dead, authorities and local media said Sunday. After 78 tornadoes were reported Friday, mostly in Nebraska and Iowa, a separate weather system Saturday brought 35 tornado reports...

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Blinken arrives in Saudi Arabia to discuss Israel normalization, post-war Gaza 2024-04-29
LBC International

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the first stop in a broader trip to the Middle East to discuss issues including the governance of Gaza once the war with Israel ends. The top US diplomat heads to Israel later this week, where he is expected to press Israeli...

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Pro-Palestinian protests keep roiling US college campuses 2024-04-29
Philenews

Pro-Palestinian protests at U.S. universities showed no sign of slowing as they spread coast-to-coast over the weekend and police crackdowns and arrests continued into another week while students vowed to stay in tent encampments until their demands are met. The students’ demands range from a...

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US to give Ukraine new Patriot missiles as part of $6 billion aid package 2024-04-27
France24

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday announced the United States will provide key air defense munitions and artillery rounds to Ukraine as part of a $6 billion military aid package that is its largest ever for Kyiv . ......

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Europe is beating inflation. Why can’t America declare victory? 2024-04-26
CNN

Inflation may have tumbled from multi-decade highs on both sides of the Atlantic, but progress has stalled in the United States, with the Federal Reserve now expected to start cutting interest rates well after its European counterpart. Annual US inflation, as measured by the Fed’s preferred gauge,...

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Xi tells Blinken US, China should be 'partners, not rivals' 2024-04-26
The Philadelphia Inquirer

BEIJING, China – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken...

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