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Congress is facing a government shutdown in five days, with hard-right Republicans pushing for spending cuts, even at the expense of federal services. Speaker Kevin McCarthy is struggling to find a way forward. The House plans to vote on funding bills, but McCarthy’s support is uncertain. The Senate is working on a bipartisan stopgap measure…
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov At UN Dismisses Ukraine’s Peace Talks, Warns of Conflict, and Rejects Grain Deal Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in his UN address, criticizes Western nations and specific Ukrainian peace proposals amid the Russia-Ukraine war tensions. He dismissed Ukraine’s 10-point peace plan as “completely not feasible,” and suggested that if Ukraine and…
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The bodies of two migrants were recovered from the Rio Grande separating the US and Mexico this week, including a three-year-old child. Migrant arrivals at the US southern border have spiked to near-record numbers in September, putting a strain on local resources. The child is believed to have drowned after being swept away while crossing…
(Bloomberg) — The Biden administration plans to seek UN Security Council approval as early as next week to deploy a Kenya-led multinational force to Haiti, people familiar with the matter said. The people asked not to be identified because the timing of the US push hasn’t been publicly released. In his address to the United…