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An F-35B Lightning II jet recently arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.

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The Biden administration is ready to talk to Russia without conditions about a future nuclear arms control framework.

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Much of the session was spent answering lawmakers’ questions about the Pentagon’s resistance to cooperating with the International Criminal Court.

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