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Lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to expand US war crimes jurisdiction

By Mike Brest
Published May 18, 2022 9:31pm ET
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Lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to expand US war crimes jurisdiction
FILE - Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, center, looks at the exhumed bodies of civilians killed during the Russian occupation in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 8, 2022.

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would broaden the United States’s power to investigate war crimes.

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