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Biden says Republican debt ceiling demands 'unacceptable'

US President Joe Biden will call Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy once he winds up the G7 summit in Japan

Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Sunday slammed Republican demands in negotiations to resolve the US debt ceiling standoff as "unacceptable" but said a solution can still be found before a disastrous default.

Speaking at a press conference just before returning to Washington from the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Biden said Republicans' latest demands for spending cuts as a condition for raising the US government's borrowing authority were "frankly unacceptable."

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Ukraine's Zelensky wins new diplomatic, military support from G7

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will plead for diplomatic and military support in Hiroshima as he addresses G7 allies

Hiroshima (Japan) (AFP) - President Volodymyr Zelensky secured more arms, munitions and "unwavering" diplomatic support from G7 allies in Hiroshima Sunday, as Russia claimed victory in the battle for a devastated eastern city.

Meeting leaders from a bloc of rich democracies, Zelensky won a commitment from US President Joe Biden to provide yet more "ammunition, artillery, armoured vehicles" on top of access to F-16 jets.

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Biden, House Speaker McCarthy could speak Sunday on debt limit

By Trevor Hunnicutt

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy could speak as soon as Sunday in talks over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Biden is 'held hostage by the radical left mob' in spending talks

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Saturday that it is not the Republicans in Congress who are trying to appease their radical fringe base in spending talks, but the White House and Joe Biden.

Greene, who is known for making fantastic claims on Twitter, was responding to Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram, who reported on news coming from the White House on the ongoing spending discussions with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

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U.S. elections are changing, and it's benefitting Democrats: analysis

We all know that elections in the United States have changed since Donald Trump arrived on the political scene, but a report shows that those differences are often working to the benefit of Democrats, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

The Post analyzed data provided in a new report by the Democratic data analytics firm Catalist, which purports to provide a comprehensive analysis of the 2022 contest. Some of the findings from the report run counter to "conventional wisdom," according to Dan Balz, chief correspondent for the Post.

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The GOP’s 'war on woke' forced the Pentagon to axe its 'countering extremism' initiative: report

A "Countering Extremism Working Group" formed by President Joe Biden's administration was "abandoned" within two years due to Republican lawmakers' attack on "wokeism," CNN reports.

Per CNN, the group was initiated to "root out military extremism," and "to identify people like Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman with a long-history of violent and racist behavior" who is" accused of perpetrating one of the biggest leaks of classified documents in modern history."

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US Republicans put brakes on debt crisis talks

The threat of a US default was raised a notch on Friday after a "pause" in debt ceiling talks between the White House and the Republican opposition as the two sides wrangle with deep disagreements.

Negotiators for President Joe Biden have been locked in talks with Republicans as they seek a deal to raise the US borrowing limit and allow the world's largest economy to avoid defaulting on its debt repayments.

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DeSantis says Florida ‘provides a ray of hope’ for the nation — but not for all

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spent his Friday in New Hampshire. It was his second visit to the Granite State in the past two months, and comes just days before he is expected to officially enter the race for the presidency in 2024.

As part of a policy roundtable discussion in Bedford, a suburb of Manchester, the governor provided a recital of some of his accomplishments, and then prescriptions in what sounded like a preview of the case he will soon make to the rest of the country — that there is a need to restore sanity and normalcy to American politics and American society, and that he is the man who can do so.

“If you look nationally, people are very pessimistic about what’s going on with the country – understandably so,” DeSantis said as he sat between Jason Osborne, the New Hampshire Republican Majority Leader, and Rep. Debra DeSimone, two of the 50 members of the New Hampshire Legislature who endorsed his candidacy earlier this week.

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'War is not an option', Taiwan president says amid China tensions

TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen vowed on Saturday to maintain the status quo of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait amid high tensions with China, which has stepped up military pressure on the democratically governed island.

Taiwan will not provoke and will not bow to Chinese pressure, Tsai said in a speech in the presidential office in Taipei marking the seventh anniversary of her governance.

China, which considers Taiwan as its own and threatens to bring the island under its control if necessary, has stepped up military and diplomatic pressure to force the island to accept Chinese sovereignty since Tsai took office in 2016.

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White House says G7 aims to 'de-risk' dealings with China

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) nations will outline steps to help rein in risks from China while preserving economic ties, the White House said on Saturday, highlighting the difficult balancing act rich democracies face with Beijing.

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Biden to announce $375 million military aid package for Ukraine including ammunition

(Corrects headline to add "mln") WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will announce a $375 million military aid package for Ukraine while in Hiroshima, Japan, where he is attending the 2023 G7 Summit of world leaders, a U.S. official said on Friday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the package will include artillery, ammunition and HIMARS rocket launchers. (Reporting by Steve Holland; writing by Jasper Ward; editing by Jonathan Oatis)

California driver’s racist rant captured on video prompts CHP probe

Authorities are investigating the report of a driver captured on video going on a racist rant on a California freeway, The Daily Beast reports.
The driver of a white Jeep Wrangler, who appears to be a white man and who was seen wearing a white shirt and sunglasses with silver frames, is shown on the video hurling expletives and using the N-word at least eight times in the direction of a video on his left, and at one point is seen swerving in the direction of the vehicle recording him. He eventually collides with a retaining wall to his right.

The incident occurred Wednesday on Interstate 880 near Oakland’s Columbia Gardens neighborhood, according to the California Highway Patrol.

IN OTHER NEWS: Joe Biden nixes 14th Amendment option to avert debt-ceiling crisis

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Joe Biden nixes 14th Amendment option to avert debt-ceiling crisis

Amid a growing drumbeat in progressive circles urging Joe Biden to avert a debt-limit crisis by invoking the 14th Amendment, the president has signaled he’s unlikely to do so, Politico reports.

Administration officials fear invoking the 14th Amendment would trigger a protracted legal battle, undermine faith in the U.S. globally, and damage the economy, Politico’s Adam Cancryn reports in an article published under the headline, “Biden’s 14th Amendment message to progressives: It ain’t gonna happen.”

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