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Former Vice President report. "They have $78,000, two kids, [are] living in a metropolitan area, and they can hardly make it," Biden added. "When was the last time you heard us talk about those people?" SPONSORED The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2017 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

MELNIK, Czech Republic — Working at his computer, as he does most weekends, on an anti-Western diatribe for a Czech website, Ladislav Kasuka was not sure what to make of the messages that began popping up on his Facebook page, offering him money to organize street protests. “Do you need help?” read the first message, written in Russian, from a person he did not know. This was followed, in a mix of Russian and garbled Czech, by gushing encouragement for street demonstrations and increasingly specific offers of cash. An initial payment of 300 euros ($368) was offered for Mr.

Juan Fermin was anxious that he might be assaulted because of his job — selling tickets for sightseeing cruises of New York Harbor. Approaching tourists at Manhattan’s southern edge hardly seems dangerous. But it places Mr. Fermin in the midst of an escalating and at times dangerous turf battle over — of all things — the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty belongs to all.

Every home needs a good tool kit. Whether you live in a new apartment in the city or a century-old house in the suburbs, eventually you will need to do some home improvements. Sure, apps like Handy and TaskRabbit make it easy to find someone to tackle them for you. Or perhaps you’ve become accustomed to calling the superintendent when things go awry. But even the most reluctant D.I.Y.-er can perform simple fixes like hanging a picture frame, changing out a cabinet hinge or assembling kit furniture.

Every home needs a good tool kit. Whether you live in a new apartment in the city or a century-old house in the suburbs, eventually you will need to do some home improvements. Sure, apps like Handy and TaskRabbit make it easy to find someone to tackle them for you. Or perhaps you’ve become accustomed to calling the superintendent when things go awry. But even the most reluctant D.I.Y.-er can perform simple fixes like hanging a picture frame, changing out a cabinet hinge or assembling kit furniture.

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Sunday he's considering banning laptops from the passenger cabins of all international flights to and from the United States. That would dramatically expand a ban announced in March that affects about 50 flights per day from 10 cities, mostly in the Middle East. The current ban was put in place because of concerns about terrorist attacks. The ban prevents travelers from bringing laptops, tablets and certain other devices on board with them in their carry-on bags.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Two days after the authorities in Bangladesh gave in to pressure from Islamist groups and ordered the removal of a statue from the country’s Supreme Court, they flip-flopped on Sunday, ordering that the statue be put back up, albeit in a less prominent location. The government’s vacillation over the statue of a blindfolded woman holding the sc

PARIS — If Petra Kvitova had been just a worthy adversary who lost a competitive match on Sunday, she still would have walked off center court at Roland Garros a winner for her bravery and determination. In December, while fending off a knife-wielding home invader at her apartment in Prostejov, Czech Republic, Kvitova grabbed the blade as it was poised at her neck, and during the ensuing struggle, she sustained severe injuries to her left hand, the one she uses to serve and to hit penetrating groundstrokes. She needed nearly four hours of intricate surgery to repair the hand and save her caree

INDIANAPOLIS — Takuma Sato, a journeyman driver, became the first Japanese winner of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday when he held off the three-time champion Helio Castroneves in a 230-mile-per-hour wheel-rubbing duel to the finish. “Unbelievable!” Sato shouted in victory lane after holding off Castroneves by three car lengths. Ed Jones was just behind them in third, followed by Max Chilton and the former champion Tony Kanaan. “I really thought we had it,” said Castroneves, who was trying to join A. J. Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears as one of the race’s four-time winners.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The government of widespread flooding and devastating mudslides, as the death toll from the twin disasters rose and nearly half a million people were displaced from their homes. The state-run Disaster Management Center on Sunday announced that 151 people had been killed and 112 others were missing. It said the flooding was the worst since torrential rains soaked the island nation in 2003.