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the u.s. embassy will reopen in the next few weeks in the capital, a major show of confidence. after a meeting in kyiv, the secretaries announced more weapons and training to help ukraine win the fight. we don t know how the rest of this war will unfold but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin s on the scene. much of the work we re doing is enabling them to strengthen their hand both on the battlefield but also eventually at a negotiation if there is one. we want to see russia weakened to the degree that it can t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine. so it has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. as they cross ukraine by rail, russian troops continue their assault on towns through the eastern donetsk and regions. and president biden is congratulating france s president emanuel macron, a key ally on beating back a stiff challenge from far ....
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famous advice, sometimes we will speak softly and carry a large javelin because we re sending a lot of those in as well. and announcing how he plans to streamline red tape to keep his praumps of p promise. i m announcing a program, unite for ukraine, a new program to enable ukrainians to come directly from europe to the united states. it will provide an expedeiate channel for secure legal migration for ukrainians who have a u.s. sponsor, such as a family or an ngo. and the president challenged vladimir putin s claim today that his troops now control the strategic port city of mariupol, where ukrainian fighters and some of their families have been barricaded for weeks in a steel plant. it s questionable weather he does control mariupol. there is no evidence yet that mariupol is completely fallen. in kyiv today, president zelenskyy told reporters that while russia does control a major part of mariupol, ukrainian troops are still defending some of their strong ....
association to get there. unusual classification of not qualified to be a federal judge. they were nominated by donald trump. it s hard to get a not qualified, actually, but she managed to get it. well, to get a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, regardless of what the apa says about you, but to get that appointment when you are 33 years old and have never tried a case, and are serving as an associate at a law firm, which is one step up from an intern, that itself was a little unusual. but you know what, lifetime tenure is a real thing, wow. yeah, and if not qualified to be a judge, how qualified is she exactly for public health decisions like this one that she made? do you think the justice department is going to peel this? the cdc only recently said, we re gonna extend the for a few more weeks, or a couple of weeks, or something. that s a really short extension. so maybe they decided that it was more that they would lifted themselves anyway. but maybe th ....
with gillian turner in the nation s capitol. gillian, good afternoon. hi, trace. a federal judge appointed by president trump just vacated the cdc s mask mandate. it applies to all public trans important hubs including train and bus stations, this decision has wide ranging implications for tens of millions of americans. it s a summer travel season. it s kicking in to gear. the judge writes, as you mentioned, the cdc failed to justify its decision and the mask mandate exceeds the cdc s statutory authority, violates the procedures required for agency rule making. last weekend, the biden administration extended the mandate for 15 days. it was slated to expire may 3. take a listen. the rise of the cases on severe disease and the assessment is that two weeks would give them additional time to do that. in march 21 states sued the biden administration seeking to have the mandate repealed. in congress, there s bipartisan opposition to nationwide mandates of any kind. th ....