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FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, March 18, 2022, in Washington. Biden quietly dispatched a team to NATO headquarters in Belgium just days before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. What emerged from the meetings was an export ban and the groundwork to immobilize about half the foreign holdings of Russia's central bank. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden revives WWII-era Lend-Lease Act to arm Ukraine

President Joe Biden is invoking World War-II legislation in his latest pledge to arm Ukrainians. Biden signed the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 on Monday, which aims to restart a World War II-era arms program.