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President Biden Addresses Nation On Bipartisan Budget Agreement And Averting US Default
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Biden Signs Debt-Limit Deal Into Law, Averting a US Default
Senator Joni Ernst's Annual Roast And Ride Event
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DeSantis Is Marquee Speaker at Biker Rally After Trump Opts Out
US Chides China Over Defense Talks as Navy Sails by Taiwan
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US Chides China Over Defense Talks as Navy Sails by Taiwan
Republican Presidential Candidate Tim Scott Campaigns In Iowa
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Tim Scott Presents Himself in Iowa as the Candidate of Optimism
Top US Treasury Official Meets China Ambassador as Contacts Grow
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Top US Treasury Official Meets China Ambassador as Contacts Grow

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Erdogan Taps Markets Veteran Simsek as Finance Minister
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Imran Khan Says Generals Want to Stop Him From Winning Race
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Sunak Finds Himself Drawn Into the One Feud He Hoped to Avoid
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North Korea Warns It May Not Give Notice of Satellite Launch
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Hong Kong Detains 8 People on Eve of Tiananmen Square Anniversary
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Tiananmen Crackdown Is Taboo Subject in Hong Kong on Anniversary
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Shangri-La Latest: China’s Li Slams US Strategy in Indo-Pacific
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UK Education Department Opposes Curbing Foreign Students: Report
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Ukraine Recap: Ready for Offensive; Contentious Cease-Fire Idea
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India Panel Favors Keeping Sedition Law Put on Hold by Top Court
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EU Tells Kosovo and Serbia to End Violence or Face Consequences

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Francis Wilkinson
Republicans Are the Real Soft-on-Crime Party
The GOP’s gun zealotry and permissive firearms laws are making America more dangerous. 
Brooke Sample
Debt-Ceiling Deal Makes Winners Out of Everyone
Tense negotiations and months of political grandstanding eventually gave way to — gasp! — compromise.
Martin Ivens
Rishi Sunak Is Making All the Wrong Friends
International elites may love the UK prime minister, but even he must know that all politics, when it comes down to it, is local.
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Balance of Power Full Show (06/02/2023)

On Balance of Power, 06/02/23, Gene Sperling, Senior Advisor to the President on the Debt Limit Deal and Jobs Report, and Cliff Young IPSOS Public Affairs President on recent polling showing Americans caring about the Debt Ceiling talks, and NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson on the Debt Limit Deal. (Source: Bloomberg)

NAACP's Johnson on the Debt Deal

Public Perceptions About the Debt Ceiling

Reasonable Bipartisan Agreement: Sperling on Debt Deal

Debt Limit Deal Clears Congress

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Shangri-La Latest: China’s Li Slams US Strategy in Indo-Pacific
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Billionaire Crow Refuses Latest Senate Request on Justice Thomas
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China Military Says It Tracked US Navy Through Taiwan Strait
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GOP Lawmakers Ramp Up Calls to Counter China Over Micron Ban

Middle East

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Turkey's Erdogan Takes Oath of Office, Ushering in His Third Term
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Turkey’s Erdogan Takes Oath as President for Five More Years
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Turkey to Deploy Commando Battalion in Kosovo at NATO’s Request
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French Anger Over Pension Law Tops Worldwide Protests in 2023

Europe

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Shangri-La Latest: China’s Li Slams US Strategy in Indo-Pacific
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Turkey's Erdogan Takes Oath of Office, Ushering in His Third Term
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Ukraine’s Envoy in Hungary Protests Over ‘Russian Crimea’ Map
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Austria’s Socialists Pick New Party Chief After Divisive Battle

Asia

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North Korea Warns It May Not Give Notice of Satellite Launch
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Hong Kong Detains 8 People on Eve of Tiananmen Square Anniversary
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Tiananmen Crackdown Is Taboo Subject in Hong Kong on Anniversary
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Shangri-La Latest: China’s Li Slams US Strategy in Indo-Pacific

Africa

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Senegal Army Patrols Dakar Streets as 15 Die in Protests
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Eskom Latest: South Africa Gets Temporary Break From Power Cuts
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Bad-Mouthing The State Is Outlawed Before Election in Zimbabwe
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BRICS Nations Say New Currency May Offer Shield From Sanctions