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Biden Admin Silent on Turkey’s Sponsorship of Hamas in Counterterrorism Talks

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Counterterrorism coordinator leaves out Hamas when discussing how to defeat terrorism in Turkey Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Haniyeh Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Handout via Reuters) The State Department’s top counterterrorism official was in Turkey this week for meetings, but missing from her schedule were discussions about Hamas—an omission that isn’t going unnoticed

Michigan’s Wayne County Could Play a Big Role in Presidential Election: Analysts

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News Analysis In a climate where there is seemingly little consensus on anything, several political experts and pollsters agree on one thing—that Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan, could potentially decide the 2024 presidential election. The largest and most diverse in a critical swing state, the 1.7 million Wayne residents have been thrust into the national

These 5 Black New Yorkers Voted for Biden in 2020. Here’s Why They’re Not in 2024.

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Five African American New Yorkers discuss their 2024 presidential vote. Manhattan resident Fitzgerald Miller, 36, voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 but he’s not planning on voting for him again in November; partly because Mr. Miller blames him for the illegal immigration crisis. The Migration Policy Institute reported in January that since President. Biden

Attorneys for American imprisoned by Taliban file urgent petitions with U.N.

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Attorneys for Ryan Corbett, an American who has been imprisoned without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since August 2022, filed urgent petitions on Thursday with the United Nations in the latest push for his release.  The petitions include testimonies from two recently released, non-American detainees who described Corbett’s deteriorating mental and physical condition as