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The westbound Empire Builder
was en route to Seattle from Chicago, with two locomotives and 10 cars,
when it left the tracks about 4 p.m. Saturday near Joplin, a town of
about 200.
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The
U.N. can withhold or bestow formal acknowledgement on the Taliban,
and use this as crucial leverage to exact assurances on human
rights, girls’ access to education and political concessions. This
is where the power — and relevance, even — of the 76-year-old world
body still holds.
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The
remains of The Rev. Emil Joseph Kapaun, a recipient of the Medal of
Honor who is a candidate for sainthood at the papacy in Rome,
arrived on Saturday at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National
Airport.
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Israeli
troops conducted a series of arrest raids against suspected Hamas
militants across the occupied West Bank early Sunday, sparking a
pair of gun battles in which five Palestinians were killed and two
Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded.
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Critics
say the SIV program, launched in 2009, has had missteps since its
creation and the delays in processing applications have led to
lapses in medical paperwork and passports. This has left thousands
of SIVs with no way out of Afghanistan, and now there are no U.S.
forces on the ground to support them.
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In
2005 Father John Hotze, a priest from the Diocese of Wichita
received a message to call an elderly former POW. What he heard
prompted him to fly to Naples, Fla., to talk to the man. What he
heard from the old soldier became pivotal to the 70-year search for
Korean War hero and Medal of Honor recipient, Father Emil Kapaun.
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U.S.
Reps. Gwen Moore and Ilhan Omar praised conditions for the nearly
13,000 Afghan refugees housed at Fort McCoy, commending the state
of medical care and vetting at the military base in western
Wisconsin during a visit Saturday.
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The
House version of the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act
provides $75 million to continue development of the beleaguered
Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii and calls on the Missile Defense
Agency to request "adequate funding" for the radar in
future budget planning.
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With
President Joe Biden's broad domestic agenda at risk of collapse,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday vowed that Democrats will pass
a bipartisan infrastructure bill this week and push ahead on the
bigger $3.5 trillion social safety and climate change bill while
acknowledging the total amount will drop.
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Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey wasn't given the option to buy
American-made Patriot missiles and the U.S. hadn't delivered F-35
stealth jets despite a payment of $1.4 billion.
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Germany's
center-left Social Democrats were locked in a very close race
Sunday with outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right
bloc, which was heading toward its worst-ever result in the
country's parliamentary election, projections showed.
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