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Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, seen in 2021. He led a bipartisan meeting of U.S. members of Congress Monday on politics in Cuba.

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In Miami, members of Congress mark 2021 Cuban protests anniversary with new hopes

6:37pm July 10, 2023

by Claudia Grisales

The bipartisan members will introduce a resolution in Congress commemorating the second anniversary of the protests. They say plenty of work remains to liberate Cubans from the communist regime.

Putin met with Wagner founder and his mercenaries just days after they led a mutiny

5:43pm July 10, 2023

by Charles Maynes

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and nearly three dozen of his mercenary commanders for talks in Moscow late in June.

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A preview of tomorrow's NATO annual summit

5:43pm July 10, 2023

by Eleanor Beardsley

On Tuesday, the 31 members of the NATO alliance will meet for their annual summit — the second summit held since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands next to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg prior to their meeting in Vilnius on Monday.

A key NATO summit starts Tuesday. Here's what's at stake

5:03pm July 10, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

The war in Ukraine will be top of mind when leaders from North America and Europe meet in Lithuania. So will the makeup of the alliance itself, as Ukraine continues pushing for membership.

Texas has deployed a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande to deter migrant crossings

4:38pm July 10, 2023

by David Martin Davies

Texas deployed a sting of buoys into the Rio Grande this weekend as a way to deter migrant crossings. It's the latest element in Gov. Greg Abbott's anti-immigration agenda.

A file image of North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein

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North Carolina governor candidate Stein's campaign raises about $6 million in past 6 months

11:15am July 10, 2023

by Associated Press

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein's campaign announced Monday it collected nearly $6 million during the first half of the year, an amount following the Democrat's

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Biden is in Europe to focus on U.S. alliances and NATO expansion

5:23am July 10, 2023

President Biden is in London to meet with Britain's prime minister and King Charles. The focus of his trip awaits in Lithuania, where he's meeting NATO allies to talk about Russia's war in Ukraine.

A field worker uproots weeds in between rows of hops on a farm near Sunnyside, Wash., on June 14, 2023.

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It's hot. For farmworkers without federal heat protections, it could be life or death

5:00am July 10, 2023

Amid extreme heat, there are few federal protections for workers during hot temperatures. The Biden administration wants to change that but the rule making process is long and the heat won't wait.

Ammon Bundy speaks to a crowd of supporters in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Idaho militia leader Ammon Bundy is due back in court. But will he show up?

5:00am July 10, 2023

by Kirk Siegler

The antigovernment militant is scheduled to appear in a Boise, Idaho, court Monday on charges stemming from a tense protest that led to the lockdown of one of the state's large hospitals.

This will be President Biden's first meeting with King Charles since his coronation. The two men have met before, including at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 2, 2021.

Biden is meeting King Charles before heading to a NATO leaders summit in Lithuania

10:35am July 09, 2023

by Asma Khalid

President Biden is in Europe this week. He'll first talk climate change with King Charles. Then he's meeting NATO leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania to talk about the war in Ukraine.

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