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June 26 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump held a "One Big, Beautiful Event" rally on Thursday afternoon to garner support for the federal budget bill that he wants passed before Independence Day. Trump was backed by dozens of supporters who represented many occupations while addressing attendees at the event held in the East Room of the White House. "We're cutting $1.7 trillion in this bill, and you're not going to feel any of it," Trump told media and other event attendees.

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June 26 (UPI) -- Ten Iranian and Lebanese suspects will be tried in absentia for killing 85 and injuring more than 300 at the Argentine Mutual Israelite Association in Buenos Aires in 1994. Argentine federal Judge Daniel Rafecas on Thursday applied the nation's new "trial in absentia" law to try the suspects for the terrorist bombing that is the deadliest terror attack in Argentina's history.

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June 26 (UPI) -- Former journalist, presidential spokesman and longtime PBS host Bill Moyers died Thursday at a Manhattan, N.Y., cancer center at age 91. Moyers died at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, his son, William Moyers, confirmed to The New York Times. Moyers was a spokesman for former President Lyndon Johnson and was with Johnson when he took the oath of office on Air Force One after President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

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June 26 (UPI) -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams kick-started his re-election bid as an independent candidate on Thursday. Adams was joined by about 100 supporters on the steps of the New York City Hall as he announced his candidacy and laid out a case for another four years as the city's mayor. "It's a choice between a candidate with a blue collar and one with a silver spoon," Adams said of his background versus that of Democratic Party candidate and self-avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani.

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June 26 (UPI) -- The Organization of American States is scheduled to elect new members of its Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Friday, and the United States wants Rosa Maria Paya on it. The IACHR is the OAS's primary body for defending human rights and fundamental freedoms in the Western Hemisphere, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.