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Month: March 2023

French police brace for protest violence; trash strike ends

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands marched as protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms gripped France again Tuesday, with police ramping up security after the government warned that radical demonstrators intended “to destroy, to injure and to kill.” Concerns that violence could mar the demonstrations prompted

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Inside the backchannel communications keeping Donald Trump in the loop on Republican investigations

By Annie Grayer, Alayna Treene, Melanie Zanona and Kristen Holmes, CNN Donald Trump continues to wield enormous power on Capitol Hill as House Republicans seek to curry favor with the former president, pursuing his fixations through their investigations and routinely updating him and his closest advisers on their progress. A number of top House GOP

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McCarthy calls on Biden to schedule meeting on debt ceiling

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position “could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold

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