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US House Passes Debt Ceiling Bill in Crucial Step to Avert Historic Default

By Lauren Fedor | Financial Times (free)

The House of Representatives has passed a bill to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, a victory for Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy that brings Washington closer to averting a historic default.

U.S. and China Address Trade Tensions in Rare High-Level Washington Meeting

By Joe Leahy & James Politi | Financial Times

China’s commerce minister and his U.S. counterpart have raised concerns about their countries’ trade and investment policies at a meeting in Washington but pledged to keep channels of communication open in the first visit by a senior Chinese official to the U.S. capital since 2020.

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Oath Keepers Leader Rhodes Gets 18 Years for Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy

By Rachel Weiner, Tom Jackman & Spencer S. Hsu | The Washington Post

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison Thursday in the first punishment to be handed down for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Ukrainians Were Likely Behind Kremlin Drone Attack, U.S. Officials Say

By Julian E. Barnes, Adam Entous, Eric Schmitt & Anton Troianovski | The New York Times

U.S. officials said the drone attack on the Kremlin earlier this month was likely orchestrated by one of Ukraine’s special military or intelligence units, the latest in a series of covert actions against Russian targets that have unnerved the Biden administration.

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