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President Joe Biden awards the Medal of Honor to Vietnam War veteran

Special Forces soldier who ‘never’ quit receives Medal of Honor nearly 60 years after grueling firefight

By Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Betsy Klein, CNN After being shot multiple times during a grueling, nearly 19-hour firefight against enemy North Vietnamese soldiers, most people would have given up. But then-Capt. Paris Davis wasn’t most people — he was willing to risk his own life to protect his fellow soldiers during an attack

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Two US nationals were arrested in Kansas City on March 2 for allegedly sending US aviation technology to Russia

2 Americans arrested for allegedly sending aviation technology to Russia

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Two US nationals were arrested in Kansas City on Thursday for allegedly sending US aviation technology to Russia, the Justice Department announced. Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky, 59, and Douglas Robertson, 55, are facing several charges, including exporting controlled goods without a license, falsifying and failing to file electronic export information, and smuggling

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Blinken reveals US has put forward a ‘serious proposal’ to free Paul Whelan from Russia

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly revealed for the first time Thursday that the United States has put forward a “serious proposal” to secure wrongfully detained Paul Whelan’s release from Russia. US officials have long stressed their commitment to bringing home Whelan, who has been detained in Russia since 2018,

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Biden says he won’t veto effort to rescind DC crime law amid Democratic divide on the issue

By Ted Barrett, Lauren Fox, Phil Mattingly and Clare Foran, CNN President Joe Biden surprised Democratic senators Thursday when he told them that he won’t veto GOP-led legislation to rescind a controversial Washington, DC, crime law, a move that comes as Democrats are divided over the contentious issue and Republicans are aggressively accusing them of

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The Justice Department on Thursday pushed back on former President Donald Trump's claims of presidential immunity surrounding the January 6

Justice Department pushes back on Trump’s sweeping claims of presidential immunity for January 6 speech

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department on Thursday urged an appeals court to reject sweeping claims of presidential immunity put forward by former President Donald Trump in the civil litigation surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. The department told the appeals court — which is considering several private lawsuits brought

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