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In the news today: Takeaways after U.S. President Donald Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and top European leaders; Trump says he wants to do away with mail voting and voting machines; and a record number of aid workers were killed in global hotspots last year. Also, the U.S. Air Force 403rd Wing released footage showing one of its planes entering the eye of Hurricane Erin.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finland President Alexander Stubb, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. President Donald Trump, France President Emmanuel Macron, Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte pose for a group photo in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Monday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Takeaways from Trump's meeting with Zelenskyy and European leaders
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During their second meeting in the Oval Office this year, Trump said the U.S. would be willing to support European efforts to police any peace deal in Ukraine, while Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude and wore dressier clothes. Read more. |
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Trump wants to do away with mail-in voting, but the Constitution doesn't give him that power
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Trump on Monday vowed to make more changes to the way U.S. elections are conducted, but under the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own. Read more. |
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Trump pledged on his social media site that he would do away with both mail voting, which remains popular and is used by about a third of voters, and voting machines that are used in some form in nearly all of the nation's thousands of election jurisdictions.
Trump's post came after he told Fox News that Russian President Vladimir Putin echoed his grievances about mail voting and the 2020 election during their Friday meeting in Alaska. Trump continued his attack on mail voting and voting machines in the Oval Office on Monday during his meeting with Zelenskyy.
- Although Republicans control Congress, it's unclear whether they would want to eliminate voting machines nationwide, possibly delaying vote tallies in their own races by weeks or months. Even then, legislation would likely be blocked by Democrats with a filibuster in the Senate.
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A record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half in Gaza, UN says
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A record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, the U.N. humanitarian office said Tuesday on the annual day honoring the thousands of people who step into crises to help others. Read more. |
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Most of the aid workers killed were serving communities in their own countries and attacked on the job or in their homes, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported.
The highest number of major attacks last year were in the Palestinian territories with 194, followed by Sudan with 64, South Sudan with 47, Nigeria with 31 and Congo with 27, the database reported.
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Tomatoes maturing on the vine on Long Island, N.Y. (Jessica Damiano via AP)
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How to tell when your garden veggies are ripe for harvesting
It's about time to harvest garden-grown vegetables. Many edibles, like tomatoes, show obvious signs of ripeness. But others are more ambiguous. |
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