White House preparations for state dinner with India's Modi include plant-based chef and violinist Joshua Bell
Preparations are underway at the White House as President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden will welcome India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington for an official state visit on Thursday, rolling out pomp and circumstance at a state dinner in the evening as the two countries reaffirm close ties.
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Florida man executed for 1984 murders of babysitter, single mother
Florida executed death row inmate Duane Owen by lethal injection on Thursday evening, nearly four decades after he murdered a 14-year-old babysitter and a single mother of two in separate attacks.
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Unclear if reservoir water from breached dam can still be pumped to Zaporizhzhia -IAEA
VIENNA It is unclear whether water from the huge reservoir of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine that burst
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Iowa Supreme Court deadlocks on 6-week abortion ban and leaves block in place
Abortion will remain legal in Iowa for up to 20 weeks after the state Supreme Court on Friday declined to lift a block on a six-week ban.
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Exclusive-Thailand seeking to re-engage Myanmar junta with ASEAN meeting - letter, sources
By Panu Wongcha-um, Poppy McPherson and Ananda Teresia BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's caretaker government is proposing to "fully re-engage" Myanmar's military
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No new questioning of JPMorgan CEO Dimon in Epstein case -US judge
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, will not have to sit for
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TV news owner apologizes for Pride Month memo that told Michigan staff to cover fewer LGBTQ+ events
The general manager of a television news station in western Michigan has apologized after staff received a memo telling reporters to cover fewer LGBTQ+ events during Pride Month because coverage could be “polarizing.”
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Unionized UPS workers could strike this summer, scrambling supply chains and home delivery
Unionized UPS workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike on Friday, setting the stage for a potential work stoppage if the package delivery company and the Teamsters can’t come to an agreement on a new contract
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Germany hands over 2 Indigenous masks to Colombia as it reappraises the past
Germany has handed over to Colombia two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum’s collection for more than a century
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Abortion providers in North Carolina file federal lawsuit challenging state's new restrictions
Abortion providers in North Carolina have filed a federal lawsuit that challenges several provisions of a state law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy
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Ahead of Juneteenth, congressional lawmakers again seek to remove exception for slavery from US Constitution
A group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced a joint resolution to negate a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude "as a punishment for crime."
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Obama to sit down with CNN's Amanpour to discuss state of democracy in US
Former President Barack Obama will sit down with CNN's Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour for an exclusive in-depth conversation about the state of democracy that will air June 22 at 10 p.m. ET.
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