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Haley said both Trump who’s 77 and President Biden who’s 81 are too old. A new New York Times Siena College poll out this weekend found that 73 percent of the registered voters questions said Mr. Biden was too old to be an effective president, 42 percent said the same thing about Trump. The two would be the oldest presidential nominees in history.
House and Senate leaders reached a bipartisan deal on six spending bills that need to be passed by Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown. They’d fund the Department of Justice, agriculture, transportation, housing, commerce, interior and Veterans Affairs for the rest of the fiscal year that ends September 30. The threat of another partial shutdown looms March 22, unless there’s a deal by then on funding the rest of the government, including the State Department and Pentagon.
The Israeli military says a preliminary review of that chaotic aid delivery last week that ended with more than 100 Palestinians dead as found that most of the deaths were caused by people being trampled. But Gaza health officials said those taken to hospitals had been hit with a large caliber ammunition. Israel had previously said its soldiers that opened fire when they felt threatened by the surging crowds.
In Haiti, hundreds of inmates fled the country’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight. It’s the latest escalation of violence between gangs and Haiti’s outgun police. Last week, gangs carried out coordinated attacks on the International Airport and two police stations.
Civilians fled their homes for police officers were killed. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry recently went to Kenya to try to get support for United Nations back security force in Haiti, and Pakistan’s newly formed parliament elected Shehbaz Sharif as Prime Minister then ends a month of political turmoil and allegations of vote rigging and the general election.
As Sharif accepted the post allies of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan shouted calls of thief. Sharif second time as Prime Minister begins with the country in a deep economic crisis and mired in political distrust.
Khan’s allies say they’ll keep protesting and pushing for an investigation into the election.
Still to come on PBS News Weekend, why people are seeking wife partners using artificial intelligence and history making performances and both men’s and women’s basketball.
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