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- President Joe Biden gave the nation’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to the outgoing head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Biden spoke at an event celebrating NATO’s 35th anniversary. The weekend before, critics of the alliance gathered for their own event, called “No to NATO, Yes to Peace.”
- A coalition of France’s left and center-left parties won a majority of parliamentary seats, delivering a defeating blow to the far right, which was projected to win the weekend elections.
- A weeklong nationwide senior citizen climate justice protest came to San Francisco today, where several dozen activists rallied downtown to protest against Citibank and the impact of its investments on climate change.
- An inmate at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California, died of what is believed to be heat stroke over the weekend.
- Business, labor, and community leaders met with local officials outside San Jose’s Diridon train station today to urge the Biden administration to fund what they say is a much-needed San Jose BART extension.
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