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June 13, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

We report today on a former president testing his party’s support on Capitol Hill, and about Russia cozying up to Afghanistan’s Taliban.

Both smart reads as we slide toward the summer of a contentious U.S. election year and as global geopolitical plates keep shifting.

And find the stories that might move you most a little farther down. Among them: Christa Case Bryant’s short, second piece today. It’s a story of connection across continents, of agency and gratitude. It shows the power of journalism – in this case of a 2018 Monitor story – to make a difference in a life.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts as he is applauded by Republicans at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters in Washington, June 13, 2024.

Today’s news briefs

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Abdul Hanan Omari, acting labor minister of Afghanistan (center) and representatives of the Taliban arrive at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 6, 2024.
Ken Makin
The Rev. Kenneth Hodges of Tabernacle Baptist Church poses in front of the Harriet Tubman monument in Beaufort, South Carolina, June 5, 2024.
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Fred Mbuga, a Ugandan granted asylum in the United States, stands in a crowd of fellow graduates and their families after receiving his diploma from the Massachusetts School of Law June 7, 2024, at Wilmington High School in Wilmington, Massachusetts. He hopes to use his law degree to start an organization to help immigrants, building on his work for a refugee resettlement agency in the Boston area.

Essay

Scott Wilson

The Monitor's View

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Host of the G7 Summit, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, center, stands with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

A Christian Science Perspective

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Teachers dance as they march to Congress to protest the Statutory Law on Education, a government initiative for education reforms being considered by lawmakers, on the first day of a teachers strike in Bogotá, Colombia, June 12.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thanks for reading today. Come back tomorrow for a new set of reports. We’ll look at how voters in a Colorado swing district view recent U.S. action on the southern border, and at what the field of candidates for a special election to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, killed last month in a helicopter crash, tells us about what’s next for the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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