The week in 15 headlines
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This week, Democratic leaders grappled internally with how to pass President Biden's agenda with a pared-down price tag. Meanwhile, all eyes are on Virginia as a new poll showed the governor's race in a dead-heat.
Monday
Democrats push Biden to take forceful role in bridging party's sparring factions over agendaColin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, diesHarris makes the case for Biden's climate priorities in visit to rapidly draining Lake MeadJustice Department asks Supreme Court to block Texas' 6-week abortion ban
The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.