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• Trevor Reed: Prisoner swaps should not be controversial

  22-05-2022 18:49 via thehill.com
  
  Trevor Reed, a U.S. citizen who was recently freed after being detained in Russia for more than two years, said that prisoner swaps should not be controversial.In an interview with CNN, Reed told host Jake Tapper that he doesn’t agree with the notion expressed by some critics who believe that foreign countries are holding Americans hostage as a form of leverage and that engaging in swaps incentivizes governments, saying that those countries will take American hostages no matter what. 
  
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• Biden highlights Hyundai investment pledge, saying EVs are good for climate, jobs and business

  22-05-2022 14:21 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Sunday said electric vehicles (EVs) are good for climate, jobs and businesses, highlighting Hyundai’s announcement that the automotive manufacturer will spend more than $5 billion to build an EV plant near Savannah, Georgia.During remarks in Seoul, South Korea alongside Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun, Biden noted the U.S.’s climate goal for electric vehicles and emphasized his administration's commitment to achieving the objective.“Last year, stan
  
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• Biden offers brief message for North Korea's Kim: 'Hello. Period'

  22-05-2022 13:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden, who is on a multiday trip to Asia, had a brief message for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday.Asked during a stop in Seoul if Biden has a message for Kim while in the region, the president responded, “Hello. Period.”The comment comes one day after Biden said he would consider meeting with the North Korean leader if he was “sincere” and “serious” about discussions regarding Pyongyang's nuclear program. North Korea’s nuclear arsenal
  
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• Biden says 'everybody' should be concerned about monkeypox

  22-05-2022 13:19 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden said Sunday that “everybody” should be concerned about the recent cases of monkeypox detected in the United States and Europe.  Biden, who took questions from reporters before departing South Korea for Japan, said his health advisers had not yet briefed him on the "level of exposure" of the disease other than to express that it spreading would be “consequential.” “They haven’t told me the level of exposure yet, but it is something tha
  
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• DOJ vows ramped up effort against hate crime after Buffalo shooting

  22-05-2022 13:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Justice (DOJ) is vowing to ramp up efforts to confront hate crime, a pledge that comes amid growing concerns that the white nationalist ideology behind the deadly Buffalo shooting has increasingly moved from the political fringes into the mainstream.Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday addressed the racially motivated rampage, saying the department would use “every legal tool at our disposal” to investigate the attack and combat what he described as the &ldquo
  
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• Frustrated Dems weigh limited options after Buffalo shooting

  22-05-2022 00:30 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are scrambling for answers in the wake of the shooting massacre in Buffalo, N.Y., the latest in a string of racist mass killings that have stunned the country, terrified minority communities — and frustrated reform-minded lawmakers who are left scouring for a viable response.The deadly tragedy in Buffalo, where a lone gunman shot 13 people in a grocery store, 11 of them Black, killing 10, follows on the heels of similar bigoted attacks in Texas and Pittsburgh, where racist gunmen
  
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• Frustrated Democrats weigh limited options after Buffalo shooting

  22-05-2022 00:30 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are scrambling for answers in the wake of the shooting massacre in Buffalo, N.Y., the latest in a string of racist mass killings that have stunned the country, terrified minority communities — and frustrated reform-minded lawmakers who are left scouring for a viable response.The deadly tragedy in Buffalo, where a lone gunman shot 13 people in a grocery store, 11 of them Black, killing 10, follows on the heels of similar bigoted attacks in Texas and Pittsburgh, where racist gunmen
  
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