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G7 leaders agree to lend Ukraine billions backed by Russia’s frozen assets. Here’s how it will work

by FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press June 13, 2024June 13, 2024

Here’s how the plan would work.

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Biden says he won’t offer commutation for son Hunter after gun sentence

by COLLEEN LONG Associated Press June 13, 2024June 13, 2024

Biden’s remarks came one day after the White House declined to rule out a potential commutation for his son.

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White House isn’t ruling out potential commutation for Hunter Biden after his conviction

by COLLEEN LONG Associated Press June 12, 2024June 12, 2024

President Biden definitively ruled out pardoning his son during an ABC News interview last week.

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Hunter Biden convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial

by RANDALL CHASE, CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

Jurors found him guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days.

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UN Security Council adopts a cease-fire resolution aimed at ending Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

by EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press June 10, 2024June 10, 2024

The resolution calls on Israel and Hamas ‘to fully implement its terms without delay and without condition.’

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Biden visits U.S. cemetery in France in latest bid to combat ‘Trump amnesia’

by Toluse Olorunnipa, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Julie Zauzmer Weil The Washington Post June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

Biden stopped at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, a site Trump skipped in 2018 after reportedly calling those buried there ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’

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Biden pays respects to fallen U.S. soldiers with cemetery visit

by CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

Biden’s trip was full of emotional moments, and the president grew heavy-eyed after meeting with World War II veterans. A 21-gun salute cast eerie smoke over 9,388 white marble headstones at the Normandy American Cemetery.

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Biden calls France ‘our first friend’ and enduring ally as he’s honored by Macron with state visit

by CHRIS MEGERIAN, ZEKE MILLER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press June 8, 2024June 8, 2024

Biden and Macron put the war in Ukraine at the top of Saturday’s agenda, but it was the strength of the countries’ long alliance, fortified at Normandy 80 years ago but with roots far deeper, that was the centerpiece of the weekend.