Biden has requested $14.3 billion for Israel, $61.4 billion to support Ukraine, $9.1 billion for humanitarian efforts in Gaza and elsewhere and more.
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President Biden expected to visit Lewiston this week
The president is likely to visit late this week in the wake of last Wednesday’s mass shootings, though the White House has not yet confirmed the trip.
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Israeli airstrikes crush apartments in Gaza refugee camp, as ground troops battle Hamas militants
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a cease-fire and again vowed to crush Hamas.
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UN agency says urgent cease-fire matter of life or death for millions of Palestinians
More than 8,300 people have been killed – 66% of them women and children – and tens of thousands injured.
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U.S. consumers keep spending despite high prices and their own gloomy outlook. Can it last?
A flow of recent data from the U.S. government has made one thing strikingly clear: A surge in consumer spending is fueling strong growth, demonstrating a resilience that has confounded economists, Federal Reserve officials and even the sour sentiments that Americans themselves have expressed in opinion polls.
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Ivanka Trump testimony delayed to Nov. 8, will follow father on stand at civil fraud trial
Lawyers in the case they will need at least a full day to question the former president’s eldest daughter.
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Biden administration is moving toward a narrower student loan relief plan
The plan would target specific groups of borrowers rather than a broad population like the one rejected by the Supreme Court.
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An Israeli ministry, in a ‘concept paper,’ proposes transferring Gaza civilians to Egypt’s Sinai
The idea deepens long-standing Egyptian fears that Israel wants to make Gaza into Egypt’s problem.
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Police say heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out attack at Colorado amusement park
The park, which is surrounded by state-owned public land, is on a mountain above the Colorado River in western Colorado.
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Israel pushes deeper into Gaza and frees Hamas captive
The Israeli prime minister rejects calls for a cease-fire to facilitate the release of captives or end the war, which he has said will be long and difficult.