The U.S. Justice Department has repealed a policy put in place during Donald Trump's presidency that cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
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Washington (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping $1.8 trillion package for families and education in his first joint speech to Congress on Wednesday, as he stresses the need to invest to compete with China, the White House said.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden holds a bipartisan meeting on the American Jobs Plan at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 19, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Biden will argue that the new package – which together with an earlier infrastructure and jobs plan totals around $4 trillion, rivaling the annual federal budget – is a once-in-a-generation investment vital to America’s future.
Myanmar's junta will give "careful consideration to constructive suggestions" from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on ways to resolve violent turmoil triggered by a Feb. 1 coup, the junta said.
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(Reuters) - Forces of the Karen National Union (KNU) captured an outpost of the Myanmar army close to the border with Thailand early on Tuesday, the armed group’s head of foreign affairs, Padoh Saw Taw Nee, told Reuters.
He said the camp had been occupied and burned down and that the group was still checking on deaths and casualties.
Reporting by Reuters staff; Editing by Matthew Tostevin and Kim Coghill
The prime ministers of Hungary and Poland will meet the leader of Italy's rightist League party on Thursday for talks on forming a European political alliance, Hungarian state news agency MTI said on Tuesday.