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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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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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DeSantis says GOP will not ‘mess with Social Security,’ as Democrats and Trump slam his past support for privatization

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday distanced himself from his past support for privatizing Social Security and raising the retirement age as potential future political foes seize on his previous ideas for the popular retirement program. “We’re not going to mess with Social Security as Republicans,” DeSantis told Fox News. “I

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Biden administration sanctions what it says is a timeshare fraud network run by Mexican drug cartel

By Sam Fossum, CNN The Biden administration has sanctioned eight Mexican companies it says are involved in a timeshare fraud scheme benefiting the Jalisco cartel, a notorious drug organization that the US government says traffics a “significant proportion” of the illegal fentanyl and other drugs that enter the US. According to the US Treasury, who

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