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Factbox-Biden in Asia: South Korea, Japan schedule and to-do list

President Joe Biden will travel to South Korea and Japan from May 20-24, a visit seen as crucial for efforts to bolster regional cooperation and counter China.

Reuters

North Korea weapons threat casts shadow on Biden visit

Any major North Korea weapons test over the next five days could overshadow U.S. President Joe Biden's broader trip focus on bolstering Asian allies against China, analysts say.

Reuters

Biden has an eye on China as he heads to South Korea, Japan

President Joe Biden's six-day trip to South Korea and Japan aims to build rapport with the Asian nations’ leaders

The Independent UK

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Biden visits Japan, South Korea carrying warning to China

Joe Biden will visit Japan and South Korea on his first Asian trip as U.S. president, carrying a clear message to China, advisers and analysts say - don't try what Russia did in Ukraine anywhere in Asia, and especially not in Taiwan.

Reuters

Democrats press Biden to go big on forgiving student loan debt

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and fellow Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Raphael Warnock pitched President Joe Biden to go big with student loan forgiveness during a White House meeting Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Vulnerable hit hardest by baby formula shortage; Biden invokes Defense Production Act

WASHINGTON — Even as the House passed legislation Wednesday to provide $28 million aimed at helping to ease a baby formula shortage that has sent families scrambling, it also tried to address a second issue: easing the shortage’s impact on low-income families who use the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for…

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George W. Bush compares Zelenskyy to Churchill, calls Iraq invasion unjustified in gaffe

DALLAS — In some of his most extensive public comments about the Russian invasion of Ukraine since the war began, former President George W. Bush on Wednesday compared Ukranian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Winston Churchill, while decrying the increasingly autocratic Russian regime.

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Registering assault weapons would be a good first step to ending the scourge of mass shootings

Already this year there have been 203 mass shootings in America. History shows registration of powerful weapons can be an effective way to save lives.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vulnerable hit hardest by baby formula shortage; Biden invokes Defense Production Act

WASHINGTON — Even as the House on Wednesday debated a bill aimed at helping to ease a baby formula crisis that has sent families scrambling, lawmakers are grappling with a second issue: how to ease the shortage’s impact on low-income families that use the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,…

Tribune News Service

Biden visit to test South Korean leader’s tough talk on China

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol faces tricky balancing act between US alliance and trade relations with China.

Al Jazeera

Rise of ultra-MAGA right could play into Dems’ hands

The rise of far-right GOP candidates has some Republicans considering voting Democratic this fall.

Axios

U.S. Brazil envoy nominee sees 'free and fair election' despite Bolsonaro allegations

Brazil's democracy can support "free and fair elections" in October despite Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's statements against the country's electoral body, said Elizabeth Bagley, U.S. President Joe Biden's nominee to be ambassador in Brasilia, on Wednesday.

Reuters

Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO bids in limbo as Turkey objects

NATO failed to immediately move forward with the accession process for Sweden and Finland after Turkey, which earlier had outlined a broad list of complaints with alliance members, blocked the formal acceptance of the applications.

Tribune News Service

Biden calls on Defense Production Act

Biden is invoking the act to prioritize what's needed for production and greater ease of supply of formula

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Biden invokes the Defense Production Act for the baby formula shortage

Biden is also authorizing the Defense Department to use commercial aircraft to fly formula supplies that meet federal standards from overseas to the U.S.

Axios

Biden invokes Defense Production Act to address baby formula shortage

Biden also directed several government agencies to use Department of Defense commercial planes to pick up formula overseas.

The Independent UK

Senators reach deal on bipartisan burn pits bill marking major step forward for veterans

The SFC Heath Robinson PACT Act could be signed into law as soon as July after the veteran community has spent more than a decade fighting for the US government to take the issue seriously

The Independent UK

Biden invokes Defense Production Act and orders Pentagon airlift to boost baby formula supply

President is asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Defense Secretary to ‘work expeditiously to identify any and all avenues to speed the importation of safe infant formula into the United States and onto store shelves’

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The Independent UK

Biden invokes Defense Production Act for formula shortage

President Joe Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and has authorized flights to import supply from overseas

The Independent UK

Live updates | UN Chief: War in Ukraine driving world hunger

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday he's in “intense contacts” with Russia and other countries to stop escalating global hunger exacerbated by the war in Ukraine by allowing the export of grain stored in Ukrainian ports and ensuring Russian food and fertilizers have unrestricted access to world markets

The Independent UK

Ashley Biden positive for COVID-19, skips Latin America trip

The White House says Ashley Biden, the daughter of President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, has COVID-19 and will no longer accompany her mother to Latin America trip

Tribune News Service

Democrats renew push for green cards for ‘documented Dreamers’

WASHINGTON — Democrats renewed their push Wednesday to provide a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of so-called documented Dreamers who grew up legally in the U.S. but risk deportation when they turn 21 years old.

WEKU

A new federal law bans baby sleep products linked to nearly 200 infant deaths

President Biden signed the Safe Sleep for Babies Act of 2021 on Monday, outlawing the manufacture and sale of crib bumpers and certain inclined infant sleepers.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: US Congress passes aid package

Ukraine news from May 19: US Senate approves military and economic aid package by a vote of 86-11.

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Fetterman wins Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated three other candidates in the May 17, 2022, Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, including U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, and Alexandria Khalil. Incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey (R)—who was first elected to the Senate in 2010—did not run for re-election.

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