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Joe Biden, America’s oldest sitting president, needs young voters to win again. Will his age matter?

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. But he’s more interested in the 80-year-old president’s accomplishments than his age. “People as young as me, we’re all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that,” Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay

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Who’s in, who’s out, who’s boycotting: The 8 candidates expected onstage for the first GOP debate

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump won’t be on the Republican debate stage Wednesday. But the former president is driving the conversation on and off the debate stage anyway. Trump supporters including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will be in Milwaukee. There are questions about how many of his campaign surrogates

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Palestinian factions meet in Egypt seeking reconciliation as violence surges in the West Bank

CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian factions have met in Egypt to discuss reconciliation efforts amid surging violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank. With the main groups, Hamas and Fatah, split since 2007 and with repeated reconciliation attempts having failed, expectations were low for the one-day meeting. Participants at the closed-door meeting

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Constitutional referendum to remove presidential term limits divides Central African Republic

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The Central African Republic went to the polls Sunday in a highly anticipated vote on a new constitution, which could remove presidential term limits. The new constitution would replace the one adopted at President Faustin Archange Touadera’s inauguration in 2016,

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At least 5 dead and 7 wounded in clashes inside crowded Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinian officials say at least five people have been killed and seven others wounded during clashes in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp. The officials say fighting broke out in Ein el-Hilweh on Sunday after an unknown gunman tried to kill Islamist militant Mahmoud Khalil, killing a companion

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Salvage crews begin towing a burning cargo ship to a new location off the Dutch coast as smoke eases

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Salvage crews have started towing a burning cargo ship loaded with thousands of new cars to a temporary anchorage location off the northern Dutch coast after smoke from the stricken vessel eased. On Saturday night, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management had said the Fremantle Highway was unlikely

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France’s Le Maire presses China on market access and lobbies for electric car investment

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies and lobbied for investment in France’s electric car industry, as the European Union’s second-largest economy followed Washington in reviving post-COVID economic talks amid tension over Beijing’s surging trade

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