With Republicans holding a nine-seat edge in the House, speculation about McCarthy’s vulnerability to ultraconservative House members intensified as the debt-ceiling accord emerged.
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National and world news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ swings to massive $120.5 million opening
Sony Pictures’ “Across the Spider-Verse,” the multi-verse spinning animated Spider-Man spinoff, sailed way past expectations, according to studio estimates Sunday, riding terrific reviews.
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U.S.-China handshake fails to stem Asia’s fear of another Ukraine
The back-and-forth between the U.S. and China at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue was always expected to be fraught, particularly after President Biden’s administration declined to remove sanctions placed on Li in 2018 over his role in purchasing a Russian missile defense system.
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Indian railways official says error in signaling system led to crash that killed 275 people
Authorities worked to clear the mangled wreckage of the two passenger trains that derailed Friday night in Balasore district in Odisha state in one of the country’s deadliest rail disasters in decades.
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Woman, toddler fatally shot, father found dead near river bank in New Hampshire
The man, Jamie Bell, 42, was seen fleeing a home in Franklin on Saturday afternoon, Assistant Attorney General Adam Woods said.
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How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
Among other legislation, the House has passed the Small Entity Update Act, to require the Securities and Exchange Commission to update, every five years, its definition of ‘small entity’ for the purposes of regulation.
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Ukraine says inspections found nearly a quarter of its air-raid shelters locked or unusable
The Ukrainian interior ministry said through its press service Saturday that of the ‘over 4,800’ shelters it had inspected, 252 were locked and a further 893 ‘unfit for use.’
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3 Israeli soldiers, Egyptian officer killed in gunbattle at the border
Israel and Egypt have been at peace for over 40 years and have strong security cooperation. Fighting between the sides is extremely rare.
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Key suspect in Natalee Holloway’s case moved to new prison ahead of extradition to U.S.
The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru’s capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing
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U.S. defense secretary says Washington won’t stand for ‘coercion and bullying’ from China
The U.S. has been expanding its activities around the Indo-Pacific to counter sweeping territorial claims from China, including regularly sailing through and flying over the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea.