A small, bipartisan group in the Senate is taking the lead and working to find a narrow compromise that can overcome a likely filibuster by winning 60 votes.
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Former UK leader Boris Johnson joins a march against antisemitism in London
Johnson was joined by the U.K.’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and other senior government officials at the march to express solidarity with the Jewish community.
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Marty Krofft, of producing pair that put ‘H.R. Pufnstuf’ and ‘Land of the Lost’ on TV, dies at 86
The pair were honored with a Daytime Emmy for lifetime achievement in 2018. They got their Walk of Fame star two years later.
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Attackers release Israel-linked tanker seized off Yemen in third such assault amid Israel-Hamas war
The attackers seized the Liberian-flagged Central Park, managed by Zodiac Maritime, in the Gulf of Aden, the company and private intelligence firm Ambrey said.
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Pope Francis says he has lung inflammation but will go to Dubai this week for climate conference
Francis skipped his weekly Sunday appearance at a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, a day after the Vatican said he was suffering from a mild flu.
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Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were not only a global power couple but also best friends and life mates
After the presidency, they built The Carter Center together. They met with world leaders, monitored elections, and fought disease in developing nations.
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Hamas releases third group of hostages as part of truce, says it will seek to extend swap deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had spoken to President Biden and reiterated his offer to extend the cease-fire by an additional day for every 10 hostages Hamas releases.
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Digging to rescue 41 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in India halted after machine breaks
Officials say they have stopped digging to rescue 41 construction workers who have been trapped for nearly two weeks in a collapsed tunnel in northern India after the drilling machine broke down
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Rep. George Santos says he expects to be kicked out of Congress as expulsion vote looms
In a defiant speech Friday sprinkled with taunts and obscenities aimed at his congressional colleagues, Santos insisted he was ‘not going anywhere.’
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Lebanese residents of border towns come back during a fragile cease-fire
The fighting has killed more than 100 people in Lebanon, including more than a dozen civilians – three of them journalists – and 12 people on the Israeli side, including four civilians.