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Wisconsin supreme court hears high-stakes case challenging legislative maps | Wisconsin
Wisconsin supreme court hears high-stakes case challenging legislative maps | Wisconsin Oral arguments at the Wisconsin supreme court got off to a heated start on Tuesday in a closely-watched case in which challengers are seeking to strike down the state’s legislative maps, which are considered among the most distorted in the US. The case, Clarke v Wisconsin Elections Commission,…
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Biden’s high-stakes Israel visit has potential to define his presidency | Joe Biden
Biden’s high-stakes Israel visit has potential to define his presidency | Joe Biden Joe Biden arrives in Israel on Wednesday on a high-stakes visit overshadowed by catastrophe even before Air Force One touched down at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport. Eleven days after the Hamas attack that killed at least 1,400 Israelis, the US president faced the already tricky…
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Wife of Russian oligarch who hid her £1 million handbag collection in high-stakes divorce battle worth tens of millions is accused of leading the court ‘on a merry dance’ by judge
The wife of a Russian oligarch who hid her £1million handbag collection during the couple’s divorce battle worth tens of millions has been accused of leading the court ‘on a merry dance’ by the judge. Elsina Khayrova, 36, who is a former model and the daughter of a Russian MP, and her husband Dmitry Tsetkov, 42, have been involved in…
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Biden lands in Lithuania for the high-stakes NATO summit
Joe Biden landed in the Baltic nation of Lithuania on Monday ahead of a key NATO summit as both Ukraine and Sweden eye membership of the 31-member military alliance. The 80-year-old touched down in the capital, Vilnius, after a fence-mending whistle-stop trip to the United Kingdom where he has faced accusations of being anti-British. After being greeted by his Lithuanian…
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