Tag: seek
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Kamala Harris allies seek to keep the ‘Biden coalition’ in the fold
As President Joe Biden fought to remain in the presidential race this summer, advisers often argued there existed a “Biden coalition” — a cohort only the incumbent could hold together. With Vice President Kamala Harris atop the Democratic ticket, there has been a shift in the focus on these voters, like white working-class voters in…
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‘Shocked’ members of Congress from Texas seek answers on unclaimed bodies used for research
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Two members of Congress are pressing officials for answers after NBC News exposed failures to notify relatives of dead people whose bodies were used for medical research. The politicians also asked about compensation for those families.…
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Rocket attack forces Blinken to seek cover in Israeli air raid shelter
TEL AVIV — A rocket attack briefly forced Secretary of State Antony Blinken to go to an air raid shelter Wednesday after sirens rang out across Tel Aviv, a senior administration official told NBC News. Smoke, apparently from an intercepted projectile, could be seen in the sky above the hotel where Blinken was staying. A…
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Italy makes it illegal to seek surrogacy abroad
ROME — Italy’s parliament made it illegal on Wednesday for couples to go abroad to have a baby via surrogacy — a project of Prime Minister’s Giorgia Meloni party which activists say is meant to target same-sex partners. Since taking office in 2022, Meloni has pursued a highly conservative social agenda, looking to promote what she sees…
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Hakeem Jeffries pitches calm governance over chaos as Democrats seek the House majority
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The way Leader Hakeem Jeffries sees it, House Democrats haven’t held the majority this Congress — but they’ve governed as if they did. From avoiding government shutdowns to raising the nation’s debt limit to passing an annual defense authorization bill, “we’ve been required to consistently rise to the occasion,” the House Democratic leader told…
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Cities seek more than $750K in unpaid bills for Trump campaign events since 2016
Former President Donald Trump held a third rally last month in Erie, Pennsylvania, which sits in the northwest corner of a swing state that could decide who wins the White House. Like the two other times Trump has been to Erie to rev up his supporters, he left without paying the bill. City officials haven’t…
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Israeli airstrikes force Lebanese Christians to seek shelter in monastery
ZOUK MOSBEH, Lebanon — Israeli airstrikes and its burgeoning ground invasion have forced dozens of Lebanese Christians to take shelter in a monastery close to the border with Israel. Milad Louis, head of the municipality of Ain Ebel, a largely Christian town, said Israeli airstrikes forced the community to evacuate in just 45 minutes. “The…
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Families from Tennessee to California seek humanitarian parole for adopted children in Haiti
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities. He is now in northern Haiti under the care of a U.S. organization after the director of Esai’s last orphanage fled the troubled Caribbean country where…