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Ivan Boesky, epitome of Wall Street trading scandal, dies at 87

Ivan Boesky, a onetime Wall Street titan who personified the excesses of the 1980s - helping inspire Hollywood’s fictional mogul Gordon Gekko and his greed-is-good mantra - but who came to a crashing end with insider-trading revelations that sent him to prison as part of one of the most sweeping securities scandals in history, died May 20 at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 87.
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Schumer plans vote on border security bill that GOP blocked

 Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced Sunday that he will seek a test vote this week on border security and immigration legislation that Republicans blocked in February when it was part of a larger package that also included aid to Israel and Ukraine.
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Iran President Raisi’s death in helicopter crash puts supreme leader succession in focus

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, widely seen as a candidate to become the country’s next supreme leader, was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. His death, along with that of Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, was announced by state media early on Monday after rescuers spent hours trying to locate and reach the accident site in a mountainous part of north-western Iran.
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General says he warned that Afghanistan would get ‘very bad, very fast’

The top U.S. general in Afghanistan during the American military’s 2021 withdrawal repeatedly warned Washington that security would get “very bad, very fast” after troops departed, but the Biden administration still failed to grasp the danger in keeping its embassy open with only nominal protection, he told lawmakers investigating the war’s deadly endgame.
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U.S. tells Israel to connect Gaza operation to political strategy

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan reaffirmed to senior Israeli officials Sunday a need for the government to “connect its military operations (in Gaza) to a political strategy” to ensure a lasting defeat of Hamas, a complete hostage release and a better future for the enclave, the White House said.
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Israel’s failure to hold its fire on aid groups

They are humanitarian groups from Western countries, including some of Israel's strongest allies. They have a direct line to the Israeli military. And they routinely provide the military with their locations and movements. Yet their aid operations in the Gaza Strip have repeatedly come under Israeli fire.
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No survivors after Iranian president’s helicopter crashes

President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran was killed along with the country’s foreign minister in a helicopter crash on Sunday in the country’s mountainous northwest, state news media reported Monday, leaving the country without two of its most influential figures at a time of heightened foreign tensions and domestic discontent.
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Biden trumpets progress for Black Americans at Morehouse College

President Biden pitched himself as a leader who is “breaking down doors” for Black Americans during a closely watched speech Sunday at Morehouse College, using his moment as commencement speaker to try to make inroads with a constituency that has drifted away from him in recent polls.
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