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Biden signs ‘common sense’ order prioritizing federal grants for projects with higher worker wages

Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order for federal grants that will prioritize projects with labor agreements, wage standards, and benefits such as access to child care and apprenticeship programs. Biden said the ideas in his order “are common sense.” “Economists have long believed that these

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Zelensky sounds alarm on air defense shortfall as US announces more military aid

By Haley Britzky, CNN Ramstein Air Base, Germany (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged international allies on Friday to speed up deliveries of promised air defenses, warning of a “significant” shortfall in vital aid. Speaking at Ramstein Air Base in Germany at the opening of the 24th Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting, Zelensky said the

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‘All the streets were destroyed:’ Palestinians count the cost as Israel pulls back from Jenin

By Mick Krever, Abeer Salman and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Residents of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, are taking stock after nine days of what they say has been the most intense and sustained Israeli military operation in their city since October 7. Witnesses describe widespread destruction of infrastructure, severed water and electricity

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ANÁLISIS | La presión de Estados Unidos por un acuerdo entre Israel y Hamas es un fracaso repetido. Pero EE.UU. no puede abandonar

Julia Hernández (CNN) — Durante meses, Estados Unidos persiguió un espejismo: un acuerdo para liberar a los rehenes de Gaza, poner fin a la agonía de los civiles palestinos y detener los combates entre Israel y Hamas. Pero su objetivo nunca ha parecido tan remoto, y el Gobierno de Biden rara vez ha estado tan

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UN-backed rights experts seek wider arms embargo and ‘impartial force’ deployed to war-torn Sudan

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war. The fact-finding mission is blaming both sides for war crimes including murder, mutilation and torture and warning that countries that arm and finance them could be complicit. It also accused

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A Capitol rioter hawked Jan. 6 merchandise from jail. The judge who sentenced him was disturbed

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From jail, Shane Jenkins helped sell T-shirts, tote bags and other merchandise promoting the notion that he and other rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol are political prisoners unjustly held in pretrial detention. That disturbed the judge who sentenced the Texas man to seven years in prison for storming the

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January 6 crimes did happen. Court cases, video and thousands of pages of evidence prove it

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege. But as he seeks to reclaim the White

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Se espera que el sospechoso del tiroteo masivo en un instituto de Georgia comparezca por primera vez ante el tribunal mientras su padre se enfrenta a cargos de homicidio

Julia Hernández (CNN) — El mortal comienzo del curso escolar en una pequeña ciudad del norte de Georgia ha dejado a una comunidad “desconsolada” este viernes, después de que un sospechoso de un tiroteo masivo de 14 años y su padre fueran acusados en relación con la embestida que dejó dos estudiantes y dos profesores

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