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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Senate bargainers reached agreement Monday on a slimmed-down $10 billi
stanley cup on package for countering COVID-19 with treatments, vaccines and other steps, the top Democratic and Republican negotiators said, but the measure dropped all funding to help nations abroad combat the pandemic.The compromise drew quick support from President Joe Biden, who initially pushed for a $22.5 billion package. In a setback, he ended up settling for much less amid administration warnings that the government was running out of money to keep pace with the disease continued 鈥?though diminished 鈥?spread in the U.S. Every dollar we requested is essential and we will continue to work with Congress to get all of the funding we need, said White Hous
stanley cup e press secretary Jen Psaki. But time is of the essence. We urge Congress to move
stanley cup promptly on this $10 billion package because it can begin to fund the most immediate needs.Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., his party lead bargainer, also ended up agreeing to abandon Biden request to include $5 billion to help countries 鈥?especially poorer ones 鈥?where the disease is still running rampant. But the two sides could not agree on enough budget savings to pay for the larger amounts.Schumer said the pact would provide the tools we need to help the country recover from the economic and public health blows that COVID-19 has inflicted for the past two years.But he said while the $10 billion is absolu Tvpw Palestinian gunman kills 1, injures 3 at Israeli military checkpoint in Jerusalem
TEL AVIV, Israel AP 鈥?Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The killing marks the latest bloodshed in spiraling violence that comes
adidas campus as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits the region.The Palestinian Health Ministry said the man, Nassim Abu Fouda, 26, was shot in the head in Hebron, often a center of friction between the Israeli military and Palestinians.WATCH LIVE: Blinken meets
yeezy with Israeli leader Netanyahu for news briefing after surge in violenceThe Israeli military said forces asked a car driving suspiciously to pull over but it then drove into a soldier, prompting soldiers to open fire. The car then sped away and crashed, the military said. It added that the driver was taken away by Palestinian rescue services and that the incident was under review.Israeli-Palestinian violence has spiked in recent days, with an Israeli military raid on a militant stronghold in the West Bank city of Jenin last week killing 10, most of them militants, and a Palestinian shooting attack in an east Jerusalem Jewish settlement outside a synagogue that killed seven people. A separate east Jerusalem shooting over the weekend by a 13-year-old Palestinian wounded two Israelis.Following the unrest, Israel approved a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians, further ratcheting up tensions just as Blinken
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