The worst-kept secret in Washington is out
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He's down for another round: President Joe Biden formally announced his bid for reelection. And despite a cease-fire, violence in Sudan is still erupting.
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'Let’s finish this job'
The worst-kept secret in Washington is out: Biden on Tuesday formally announced he's running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to "finish this job." Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is betting his first-term legislative achievements and decades of experience will count for more than concerns about his age. He faces a smooth path to his party's nomination, with no serious Democratic challengers. But he's still set for a hard-fought struggle to retain the presidency in a bitterly divided nation. Here's what we know.
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👉 Meanwhile, accusing House Republicans of "hostage taking," the White House on Tuesday said Biden would veto a GOP plan that would raise the nation's debt limit but also cut spending – including some Democratic priorities. The threat shows how difficult it could be to resolve the standoff to avoid a calamitous default. More on the debt ceiling fight.
Thousands desperately flee Sudan
As explosions and gunfire echoed across Khartoum, the chaos engulfing the Sudanese capital became significantly more threatening Tuesday when one of the warring factions seized control of a national health lab that contains biological material. Here's the latest:
- Dr. Nima Saeed Abid, the World Health Organization’s representative in Sudan, said one of the parties fighting for control of Sudan "kicked out all of the technicians" from a lab where measles, cholera and polio samples are held.
- Thousands of Americans, Europeans and Africans were already fleeing Sudan as a new, three-day truce that came into effect late Monday did little to ease the violence overtaking the nation of 46 million, where about one-third of the population depends on humanitarian aid.
👉What is happening in Sudan? The fierce conflict, explained.
- See how elite military forcesevacuated the US Embassy in Sudan.
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Trailblazing singer, actor, activist Harry Belafonte dies
Harry Belafonte, the "King of Calypso" who became one of America's endearing and enduring civil rights activists into his 10th decade, has died. He was 96. Belafonte died Tuesday at his home in New York of congestive heart failure. He will be remembered as one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century, as a singer, musician and actor. And his civil rights work in the 1960s and his anti-apartheid work in the 1980s will be just as enduring. More about Belafonte's life and legacy.
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