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President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden was seen in Malibu Sunday afternoon with family and friends ahead of meeting with potential buyers of his controversial art. The president's son was photographed leaving lunch, as he carried his one-year-old son Beau on his shoulders while wife Melissa Biden trailed close behind. Biden has been enjoying the California sun of late, where he was spotted last month hitting the waves with professional surfer Strider Wasilewski

ROME -- US secretary of state Hillary Clinton wound down after a packed day of international diplomacy in Rome by enjoying an outdoor dinner on a balmy evening at one of the Eternal City's famed eateries, ANSA news agency reported Friday. Clinton was joined by David Thorne, the US ambassador to Italy and brother-in-law of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), at the unnamed restaurant near the Campo de' Fiori in the center of the Italian capital Thursday evening after walking along the Via Condotti, a major shopping street, the report said.

HAZLETON, Pa. - The City Council gave tentative approval Friday to an overhaul of an anti-illegal-immigration law considered to be one of the nation's toughest, hoping to put the measure on sounder legal footing. Like the version it will replace if granted final approval Tuesday, the new ordinance punishes businesses that employ illegal immigrants and landlords who rent to them. The revisions, however, remove much of the burden that had been placed on businesses. They soften penalties, give landlords and businesses time to correct violations and leaving it to city officials to verify workers' immigration status with the federal government....