Patrick Leahy

FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Maika Elan, File)

Takeaways from the AP’s report on how USAID cuts are imperiling Agent Orange cleanup

A multi-year cleanup at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam was abruptly halted when the Trump administration cut funding, leaving tons of dioxin-contaminated soil exposed.
 
FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Maika Elan, File)

USAID cuts jeopardize Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam

 
FILE - Cars are on fire after they were hit by rockets from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel, Oct. 7, 2023. Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce that it’s blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago. The move would mark the first time that a U.S. administration has invoked a 27-year-old congressional act known as the Leahy law against an Israeli military unit.(AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

The US is expected to block aid to an Israeli military unit. What is Leahy law that it would cite?

 
FILE - U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the president pro temper of the Senate, discusses his life in the Senate and his Vermont roots during an Associated Press interview in his office at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 19, 2022. Leahy is being honored by the University of Vermont with a new program dedicated to solving challenges faced by rural communities, such as access to broadband and clean water, and mitigating the stresses of extreme weather events brought on by climate change. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

UVM honors retired US Sen. Patrick Leahy with renamed building, new rural program

 

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