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• President Joe Biden is calling out Donald Trump over the former president’s unsubstantiated attacks on the Haitian community.
• President Joe Biden and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed Ukraine’s request to use Western-provided weapons for strikes deep inside Russia.
• More than 33,000 aircraft assembly workers are on strike at Boeing factories in Washington state, Oregon, and California after union members overwhelmingly rejected a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25% over four years.
• An activist group called the Rainbow Brigade gathered outside the headquarters of X today to bid farewell to controversial CEO Elon Musk, citing his ties to Trump and urging the company to uphold democratic values as it leaves the city.
• East Bay community members plan to rally outside the Antioch-Pittsburg Amtrak station in Antioch tomorrow, urging the local train authority to halt its planned closure of the station.

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