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Envoy for hostage affairs describes efforts to free Americans detained abroad

While the United States was able to negotiate the release of detained Americans in Venezuela, there are at least four Americans in Russia and approximately seven held in Gaza. The U.S. government’s point person working to get them all home

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White House wants Mexico to make it harder for migrants to reach U.S. border

The Biden administration is closing out 2023 in much the same way it began, with headlines about a migrant crisis. Border patrol agents are encountering a record number of people entering the country and cities are struggling to keep up

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Surging Mexico Border Crossings Push U.S. Resources to Brink

Officials are struggling to contend with the chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border as thousands of migrants arrive every day, trekking from the farthest reaches of the globe.

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Humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza as Israel-Hamas war rages: Live updates – CNN

Humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza as Israel-Hamas war rages: Live updates  CNN Israel shows no sign of slowing down strikes in Gaza  PBS NewsHour Israel-Hamas war live: Israel, Turkey in war of words over Hitler comments | Israel-Palestine conflict News  Al Jazeera English

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Worldwide, 2024 elections are a target for bad actors trying to disrupt democracy

Billions of people around the world are expected to head to the polls in 2024. But experts warn that these elections are ripe targets for bad actors seeking to disrupt democracy.

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Blinken Meets With Mexico’s President About Surge in Migration at the Border

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador comes as border crossings have reached record numbers and as a migrant caravan heads toward the United States.

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Michigan supreme court rules that Trump will stay on state ballot – The Guardian US

Michigan supreme court rules that Trump will stay on state ballot  The Guardian US Michigan Supreme Court rejects case to remove Trump from 2024 ballot  NBC News Colorado GOP asks US Supreme Court to overturn ruling disqualifying Trump from 2024 ballot  CNN

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Trump says he didn’t know his immigration rhetoric echoes Hitler. That’s part of a broader pattern

Donald Trump is facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

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As social media guardrails fade and AI deepfakes go mainstream, experts warn of impact on elections

The safeguards that attempted to counter the bogus claims the last time are eroding, while the tools and systems that create and spread them are only getting stronger.

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Jacques Delors, architect of the modern EU and ‘Mr. Europe,’ dies at 98

A Paris bank messenger’s son, Delors became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union. (Image credit: Bob Dear/AP)

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