{"id":33481,"date":"2024-08-21T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/wednesday-headlines-the-love-tote#id33224"},"modified":"2024-08-21T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:53:00","slug":"wednesday-headlines-the-love-tote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wednesday-headlines-the-love-tote\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday headlines: The love tote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden approved a secret strategy in March to prepare the United States for possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/20\/us\/politics\/biden-nuclear-china-russia.html\">China, Russia and North Korea.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Condoleezza Rice: US-China relations badly need new procedures and lines of communication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/perils-isolationism-condoleezza-rice\">to prevent an accidental catastrophe.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Foreign Affairs<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Political influence campaigns are found to be &#8220;running wild&#8221; around the globe on Elon Musk&#39;s X. 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