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The Trump Trial Takes a Turn

By Calder McHugh | Politico
  • The prosecution in the Trump trial got what they wanted from former American Media CEO David Pecker this week — a concession that the hush money payments he made on behalf of Trump were done in order to help Donald Trump’s campaign for president.
  • While legal observers generally assumed the Court would swat down Trump’s argument that a former president should be immune from prosecution relating to his time in office, at least three justices — John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch — suggested that the Court would at the very least have to send the case back to lower courts to determine just what evidence special counsel Jack Smith could bring to trial.
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D.C. police rejected GWU’s plea to sweep out university protesters

Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
  • D.C. police rejected pleas from George Washington University officials to clear pro-Palestinian demonstrators out of an on-campus encampment early Friday morning, saying they worried about the optics of moving against a small number of peaceful protesters, according to two officials familiar with the talks.
  • The demonstrators were small in number and largely peaceful, and the city officials told their university counterparts they wanted to avoid images of violent altercations between police and protesters flashing across TV screens across the country.
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Jury Foreman Shocked, Angry Weinstein Conviction Was Tossed

By Pilar Melendez | The Daily Beast Latest Articles
  • The court decision overturning Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape conviction came as a shock to victims, activists—and the man who was the foreman of the jury that found him guilty.
  • “This decision is so unfair to the women that were hurt by [Weinstein],” Bernard Cody told The Daily Beast on Friday.
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Female Secret Service agent with troubling history allegedly becomes violent with colleagues: ‘Never should have been hired’

By Cortney Weil | Blaze Media
  • Agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed only that a "U.S. Secret Service special agent supporting the Vice President’s departure from Joint Base Andrews" had exhibited "distressing" behavior and that the individual had been "removed from their assignment." He gave few other details since the agency is treating the incident as a "medical matter."
  • The Secret Service agent arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland around 9 a.m. as part of a security detail for Vice President Kamala Harris, who was scheduled to depart the base later that morning.
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Indiana man killed during pursuit had history of resisting police

FOX News US
A 20-year-old man who died in an exchange of gunfire while fleeing police in northwestern Indiana had resisted law enforcement before, court records show.Caden Mura, 20, of Valparaiso was identified by the Porter County Coroner’s Office as the man fatally shot during an exchange of gunfire Thursday with Valparaiso and Porter County officers.INDIANAPOLIS MAN CHARGED WITH TRIPLE HOMICIDE IN APARTMENT SHOOTINGCourt records show Mura pleaded guilty last fall to a charge of resisting law enforcement, The Times of Northwest Indiana reported.Thursday’s incident is still under investigation and the cause and manner of death are pending an autopsy […]Read more >Similar articles >
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WATCH: Tornadoes tear across America’s heartland, leaving catastrophic destruction in multiple states

FOX News US
  • There were at least 59 reported tornadoes across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa as of 7 p.m. ET, according to the National Weather Service .
  • "Tornadoes, including a couple of strong tornadoes, very large hail (some greater than 2 inches in diameter), and wind damage remains possible this afternoon/evening from eastern Kansas/Nebraska into Iowa, western Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas, and northeast Texas," the agency said.
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Biden considers declaring a ‘climate emergency’ to limit affordable energy

By Editorial Board | The Washington Times stories: Editorials
  • Mr. Biden has already imposed a “temporary” ban on liquefied natural gas exports at the beginning of the year, saying the move was necessary because climate change is “the existential threat of our time.”
  • These scientific findings run contrary to the alarmism from the likes of U.N. Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, who earlier this month declared time is running out.
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Alicia Keys, Sufjan Stevens and Huey Lewis all have pretty great Broadway musicals

Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
  • Three new musicals that opened on Broadway this week — “Hell’s Kitchen,” “The Heart of Rock and Roll” and “Illinoise” — shape songs by popular artists into compelling variations on the coming-of-age story.
  • Dreams of tearing up the stage with his forsaken bandmates distract Bobby (Corey Cott) from more grown-up ambitions in “The Heart of Rock and Roll,” an audaciously goofy new musical that has become the eyebrow-raising Who knew?
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Secret Service prepped for possible Trump imprisonment for gag order violations

By Griffin Eckstein | Salon.com
The Secret Service quietly planned for Donald Trump’s potential imprisonment after his repeated gag order violations prompted a contempt hearing. In meetings, discussions focused on the possibility of a short jail sentence for being held in contempt by Judge Juan Merchan, though officials were uncertain as to whether he would place Trump in a courthouse holding cell, according to ABC News, adding that staffhas not yet begun discussions on its response to a conviction and prison sentence in his hush-money case. "For all settings around the world, we study locations and develop comprehensive and layered protective models that […]Read more >Similar articles >
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WATCH: Boston police officer attempts to reason with anti-Israel college students, interrupted by chants

FOX News US
  • The body camera footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows an unidentified police officer approaching a group of demonstrators from Emerson College huddled on a street corner in front of a public alley entryway in the Massachusetts city at 1:30 on Thursday morning.
  • The Boston police officer said that he had been reasonable with the anti-Israel protesters, but that they needed to disperse.
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After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s Anacostia welcomes new developments

Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
  • In 2022, Ward 8 welcomed its first-ever urgent care center, and earlier this month, Bowser cut the ribbon at D.C. Health’s new headquarters there — part of a collective effort to direct more city resources east of the Anacostia River and help fortify the area’s economy.
  • For Bowser (D) and her administration, completing the MLK Gateway project marks the latest in recent developments that, under her watch, have helped reshape an area containing two of Anacostia’s busiest corridors, including the bustling Good Hope Road SE that was recently renamed Marion Barry Avenue .
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The Trump immunity case is easy. The Supreme Court shouldn’t make it hard.

By Editorial Board | The Post's View
  • Thursday’s oral argument in the case revolved around whether Mr. Trump can claim absolute immunity for his conduct while president, including for the alleged crimes in Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s election fraud case.
  • It would seem to go without saying that the president, tasked with faithfully executing the laws of the United States, cannot also violate any one of those laws without fear of criminal prosecution after leaving office.
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University of Southern California cancels main graduation ceremony over anti-Israel protests

By Carlos Garcia | Conservative Review
  • The University of Southern California announced the cancellation of its main-stage graduation ceremony after several controversies related to students protesting against Israel's war on Hamas terrorists.
  • As a result, we will not be able to host the main stage ceremony that traditionally brings 65,000 students, families, and friends to our campus all at the same time," read the statement in part.
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Biden restricts pollution and carbon from power plants

By Zack Budryk | Just In News | The Hill
  • The rule requires coal and new gas plants to either use carbon capture to reduce their emissions by 90 percent — or achieve equivalent emissions reductions by other means.
  • Welcome to The Hill’s Energy & Environment newsletter, we’re Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk — keeping you up to speed on the policies impacting everything from oil and gas to new supply chains.
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The AI ecosystem is complex and dynamic: Its regulation should acknowledge that

By Bronwyn Howell, opinion contributor | Just In News | The Hill
  • In both cases, the risks addressed arise almost exclusively in relation to specific products, activities, decisions or uses of AIs, rather than the complex ecosystems in which they operate.
  • Neither set of regulations addresses the elements of complexity, uncertainty, unpredictability, asynchronicity and non-decomposability of the ecosystems in which the AIs will operate.
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Sanders locks onto next drug pricing target: Ozempic 

By Joseph Choi | Just In News | The Hill
  • Sanders, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced this week he’s launching an investigation into the price of Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy .
  • After successfully getting manufacturers to lower the prices of insulin and inhalers, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) now has popular weight-loss drugs in his sights.
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Justice Sotomayor Slays Ridiculous Presidential Immunity Claims

By John Amato | Crooks and Liars
  • Sotomayor: Your answer below, I'm going to give you a chance to say if you stay by it – if the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?
  • During Thursday's Supreme Court hearing, Trump lawyer John Sauer was made to look foolish trying to defend his claim that the president would get immunity even if he assassinates his political rival.
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5 takeaways from Trump’s Supreme Court and New York hearings

By Niall Stanage | Political Campaign News | The Hill
  • Two of former President Trump’s legal cases collided Thursday, as the Supreme Court held a hearing on his broad claims of immunity from criminal prosecution while his trial continued in New York over a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
  • The Supreme Court case has the capacity to derail Trump’s other three proposed trials — for alleged offenses relating to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, the retention of sensitive information at his Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago, and attempts to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia.
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Weepy Weinstein Can’t Wait to Return to NYC

By Pilar Melendez | The Daily Beast Latest Articles
  • He wants to get the hell out of there,” his lawyer, Arthur Aidala, said of Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, New York, where Weinstein has spent the last year.
  • Because he is no longer a convict in New York, Aidala said, Weinstein can get out of the state prison northeast of Syracuse.
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Co-conspirator #1

Washington Post
In the second week of Trump’s New York criminal trial, attorneys made opening statements before prosecutors called the first witness, ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. Pecker testified extensively about the "catch-and-kill" strategy to intercept negative stories about Trump – and, he says, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.Plus, the Supreme Court considered Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution. The team dissects what we heard from the justices, and the effect it could have on Trump’s other legal matters.And are Trump’s lawyers in trouble with the judge? […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Belarus says it thwarted attempted Lithuanian drone strikes; Vilnius rebuffs claims

FOX News International
  • A top security official in Belarus claimed Thursday that the country has prevented attempted drone strikes from Lithuania targeting the Belarusian capital and surrounding areas.
  • told a session of the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly that his and other agencies recently carried out security operations "which made it possible to prevent attacks by combat drones from the territory of Lithuania on objects in Minsk and its suburbs."
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A historic day at the Supreme Court: 6 things to know about Trump’s immunity argument

By Zach Schonfeld | Just In News | The Hill
  • Justices in both ideological camps expressed skepticism at Trump’s broadest argument that former presidents should receive absolute immunity for all official acts while in the White House.
  • The Supreme Court seemed poised Thursday to grant former President Trump at least some protections from criminal prosecution after hearing two hours of arguments from his lawyers and prosecutors.
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US on track to deliver aid to Gaza from sea by early May, officials say

By Brad Dress | Just In News | The Hill
  • The military is also coordinating closely with Israel to create a robust security plan to ensure safety at the pier, though the head of U.S. Central Command must sign off on the mission before it goes forward.
  • The U.S. is on track to start delivering critical humanitarian aid into Gaza through a maritime corridor by early May and more details of the plan have been worked out, officials said.
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Texas prosecutor declines to charge student protesters arrested at UT Austin

By Nick Robertson | Just In News | The Hill
  • University of Texas (UT) at Austin demonstrators arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest Wednesday will not be charged, Travis County Attorney Delia Garza’s office confirmed Thursday.
  • Texas state police arrested more than 50 people Wednesday as pro-Palestine protests spread across the country after Columbia University students began a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” last week.
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Ex-official told investigators Trump had ‘no standing declassification order’

ABC News: Top Stories
  • Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case said in court filings that a former Trump administration official told investigators that Trump, as president, had "no standing declassification order" regarding documents in his possession.
  • Trump was subsequently indicted last June on 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities, and took steps to thwart the government's efforts to get the documents back.
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America Is Writing Checks That Mere Optimism Won’t Cover

By David Brooks | NYT > Top Stories
  • It makes government accountants miserable because the very act of borrowing money to pay off debt can drive interest rates higher and make the prospect of paying off debt even more expensive.
  • According to The Wall Street Journal, America is expected to spend $870 billion, or 3.1 percent of gross domestic product, this year on interest payments on the federal debt.
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Can Biden Revive the Fortunes of American Workers?

By Paul Krugman | NYT > Top Stories
  • And the most likely explanation for the sudden but persistent move toward relative equality was something else that was sudden but persistent: the rise of labor unions, which by the late 1940s represented more than 30 percent of American workers, and remained powerful until the 1980s.
  • As someone who grew up in that era, I can also attest that America used to feel like a place in which most people lived in more or less the same material universe.
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For Maxine Hong Kingston, Age Is Just Time Going By

By Ruth La Ferla | NYT > Top Stories
The Unstoppables is a series about people whose ambition is undimmed by time. Below, the writer Maxine Hong Kingston explains, in her own words, what continues to motivate her.In a way, I don’t believe in old age. I hear people say, “this hurts” or “that hurts,” and they attribute that pain to old age. It’s not age. Age is just time going by, and that’s very mysterious.I don’t think about vanity much. I look in the mirror, and if I think, “I look young,” that’s good enough.” Instead of wearing lipstick or rouge, I darken my eyebrows. I can express all kinds of things just with my eyebrows.Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Editorial: Only dictators have immunity from criminal acts while in power

By The Times Editorial Board | Opinion
  • It seems unlikely that the Supreme Court will embrace Donald Trump’s outrageous claim that as a former president he enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions that he allegedly took to overturn the 2020 election and cling to power.
  • But even supposedly “official” acts — such as Trump’s alleged effort to enlist the Justice Department in an attempt to overturn the election — were allegedly part of what former Deputy Solicitor Gen. Michael Dreeben, representing the government, called an “integrated conspiracy,” in which the former president allegedly used his official powers and his private conduct to try to subvert the election.
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EXCLUSIVE: How The Daily Wire Is Bringing the Christian Faith of King Arthur and Merlin to Life

By Tyler O'Neil | The Daily Signal
  • The series will show how the wizard Merlin and his father, the bard Taliesin, learn to let God direct their supernatural powers, Jeremy Boreing, The Daily Wire’s CEO and the series’ director, explains in a video first released to The Daily Signal .
  • FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Wire’s new streaming television show “The Pendragon Cycle” will highlight the Christian faith of King Arthur and Merlin as portrayed in Stephen R.
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Mass graves at two hospitals are the latest horrors from Gaza

By Ellen Ioanes | Vox - Politics
  • But the sharp increases in the number of dead raise concerns that both hospitals could be the sites of serious crimes, including possibly extrajudicial killings, that require an independent investigation, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights .
  • Some bodies had been buried at a temporary site at Nasser Hospital during the Israeli siege and raid in February, according to Gaza Civil Defense.
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Blue state in battle over AG’s illegal immigration dictate that ‘handcuffs’ police

By Jamie Joseph | FOX News : Politics
  • A group of New Jersey Republicans is trying to reverse a directive from the state's liberal district attorney general that "handcuffs" local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration officials.
  • "The New Jersey Attorney General’s directive handcuffs law enforcement and, overall, undermines public safety, placing citizens at risk by creating a separate class of people who are permitted to flagrantly break the law and undermine U.S. sovereignty," the lawmakers said in a statement.
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Surging GOP Senate candidate unleashes on ‘both parties’ during border visit: ‘Failing the American people’

By Adam Shaw | FOX News : Politics
  • In an interview with Fox News Digital, Former Maryland governor and current Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan says it’s time to ‘bring some sanity back to’ Congress.
  • Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday visited the southern border in McAllen, Texas, as he campaigns for the open Maryland Senate seat — and as the ongoing crisis at the southern border remains a top political issue.
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NY v. Trump: Tabloid publisher testifies he bought stories on Tiger Woods, ex-Obama chief of staff

By Brooke Singman | FOX News : Politics
  • David Pecker is questioned during former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. April 23, 2024 in this courtroom sketch.
  • A former tabloid publisher and key witness for the prosecution testified that he purchased stories about professional golfer Tiger Woods, former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, among others during questioning by defense attorneys for former President Trump.
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US energy giant sounds alarm on Biden’s climate rules targeting power plants

By Thomas Catenacci | FOX News : Politics
  • EPA and White House officials said the suite of environmental rules would help the U.S. achieve President Biden's goals of decarbonizing the nation's power grid .
  • Duke Energy, one of the nation's largest energy providers, is warning that the Biden administration's newly finalized power plant regulations will threaten the reliability and affordability of power supplies.
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SCOTUS Weighs the Risk of Presidential Timidity Against the Risk of Presidential Impunity

By Jacob Sullum | Latest
  • Those concessions acknowledged competing concerns that the Court will have to weigh in deciding "whether and if so to what extent" a former president is immune from criminal prosecution for "conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office." While none of the justices dismissed Sauer's concern about politically motivated prosecutions, most of them seemed inclined to reject his maximalist solution to that problem.
  • Sauer's "novel theory," he warned, "would immunize former presidents [from] criminal liability for bribery, treason, sedition, [and] murder" as well as "for conspiring to use fraud to overturn the results of an election and perpetuate himself in power," as alleged in this case.
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Texas Public Colleges Crack Down on Peaceful Anti-Israel Protests

By Emma Camp | Latest
  • Students from the University of Texas at San Antonio told the San Antonio Current that, during a pro-Palestine demonstration on Wednesday, administrators told protesters they could not use the phrase "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" in their chants, nor could they use the words "Zionism" and "Israel."
  • While public universities are bound by the First Amendment, a March executive order by Gov. Greg Abbot forces colleges to suppress antisemitic speech, seemingly motivating some of the universities' responses this month.
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Republicans Sound Alarm On Efforts To Shield Ukraine Funding From American Voters

By Henry Rodgers | Politics – The Daily Caller
  • With Congress granting Biden additional “draw down” authority to send weapons to Kyiv, and NATO allies in Europe seeking to take the power to send aid away from the White House, multiple Senate Republicans, strategists and former Trump officials told the Daily Caller efforts to “Trump-proof” foreign aid are misguided and futile.
  • As President Joe Biden signed legislation Wednesday to send billions of dollars more in aid to Ukraine, officials from Brussels to Washington are working to hamstring former President Donald Trump from taking a different route should he win back the White House.
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How Fox News Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Michael Avenatti

By Justin Baragona | The Daily Beast Latest Articles
  • Now that the convicted felon is defending the ex-president as a “ victim of the system ” in the hush money case, begging to testify on Trump’s behalf and trashing Daniels, his former client, as an unstable liar, the tables have turned: Avenatti is now a commodity in the Fox News universe, scoring primetime interviews from prison, where he is serving 19 combined years for embezzlement, extortion, and fraud.
  • Once upon a time Fox News gleefully mocked its cable-news rivals for their breathless promotion of disgraced former Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti, who was once hyped as Donald Trump’s “worst nightmare” and even floated as a possible presidential candidate .
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CAIR Calls On MSNBC to Ban ADL Boss Over ‘Iranian Proxies’ Remark

By Justin Baragona | The Daily Beast Latest Articles
  • The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling for MSNBC to ban Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt from its airwaves over recent comments he made about college students protesting against the war in Gaza.
  • “No civil rights leader would ever equate Jewish and Palestinian college students with Hezbollah, analogize the Nazi swastika to the Palestinian keffiyeh or question whether Hamas sympathizers were writing MSNBC scripts,” he added.
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One in Five Milk Samples Nationwide Shows Genetic Traces of Bird Flu

By Emily Anthes and Noah Weiland | NYT > Top Stories
Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a naturally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online update on Thursday.Samples from parts of the country that are known to have dairy herds infected with the virus were more likely to test positive, the agency said. Regulators said that there is no evidence that this milk poses a danger to consumers or that live virus is present in the milk on store shelves, an assessment public health experts have agreed with.But finding traces of the virus in such a high share of samples from around the […]Read more >Similar articles >
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‘It’s not fair’: Sister of slain cop makes emotional plea to Chicago residents

ABC News: Top Stories
  • Describing her family's pain as "unbearable," the sister of slain Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca is pleading with the public to help investigators identify and catch a suspect who allegedly gunned him down and stole his gun and car as he arrived home from work.
  • Huesca was still in his uniform when he was shot multiple times two days before his 31st birthday, as he arrived home from his shift early Sunday in the Gage Park neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago, according to authorities.
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On his big legal day, Trump pivots to the campaign. Sort of.

By Natalie Allison | Politico
  • A source close to Trump, granted anonymity to speak freely, said the Trump team was optimistic about how the Supreme Court arguments and New York trial went Thursday.
  • Donald Trump strode down the Manhattan courthouse hallway Thursday morning, approaching the news cameras — already his second gaggle of the day — and began to talk about what was on his mind in such a historic, unprecedented moment in American presidential politics.
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California battery storage increasing rapidly, but not enough to end blackouts, Gov. Newsom says

By Melody Petersen | Politics
  • Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid blackouts during heat waves.
  • Asked by reporters if California now had enough battery storage so that residents no longer had to worry about blackouts during times of high power use, Newsom laughed.
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High School AD Framed Principal With Fake AI-Generated Racist Audio: Cops

By Josh Fiallo | The Daily Beast Latest Articles
  • Dazhon Darien was arrested at Baltimore ’s international airport on Thursday, three months after the fake voice recording of Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert circulated far and wide, announced Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough.
  • A Maryland high school athletic director was arrested Thursday after police said he used artificial intelligence to generate a fake audio clip of a principal making racist and antisemitic remarks—an alleged frame-job believed to have been in retaliation after the school official opened a probe into him.
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Ohio lawmakers petition for banned MLB superstar Pete Rose to be inducted to Hall of Fame

By Misty Severi | Just The News - Not The Noise
  • Two Ohio state lawmakers are requesting that baseball legend Pete Rose be admitted to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, despite a ban that has made him permanently ineligible.
  • Rose, who was banned from the league in 1989 for betting on baseball while he was a player and manager, has been dubbed the “all-time hit king” due to his impressive record of 4,256 career hits, which remains undefeated, according to Fox News .
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Mayor Adams’ 2025 spending scheme could’ve been worse — but also better

By Post Editorial Board | editorial | New York Post
  • Adams’ proposal “significantly underbudgets for planned services, leaving New Yorkers without a clear view of the city’s fiscal picture or how it will maintain, expand or shrink critical programs, given looming gaps,” warns Rein.
  • And: Even before the new costs get tacked on, Adams’ planning leaves a monster cash shortfall, $16.7 billion, for the three years after that.
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Megan Thee Stallion’s Ex-Makeup Guru Talks. It’s Not Pretty.

By Eboni Boykin-Patterson | The Daily Beast Latest Articles
  • Garcia’s suit, which was obtained by The Daily Beast, mentions that he confided in a former makeup artist for Megan Thee Stallion about what he was experiencing while working for her, and makeup artist Akil McCoy has come forward as the likely confidante in question.
  • Following news that Emilio Garcia, a former cameraman for rap star Megan Thee Stallion, is suing the rapper for withholding wages and creating a “hostile work environment,” including forcing him to watch her have sex in a car, another former employee of the rapper has come forward to corroborate some of his claims.
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Ford lost $132,000 on each electric vehicle it sold in the first quarter 2024

By Kevin Killough | Just The News - Not The Noise
Ford announced Wednesday losses of $1.32 billion on its Ford Model-e sector, which represents the company’s electric vehicle business. With 10,000 units sold, the company lost $132,000 on each EV it sold. In the fourth quarter of 2023, the company sold 34,000 units in its Model-e business, which produced $1.57 billion in losses, or roughly $46,176 on each EV sold. “The company expects EV costs to improve going forward, but be offset by top-line pressure,” the company said in a press release. The company’s other sectors, which includes its Ford Pro fleet business and Ford Blue gas-powered and hybrid vehicle business, made up for the losses […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Trump Says Gaza Protests Are More Hateful Than Charlottesville Nazi Rally

By Charisma Madarang | Politics – Rolling Stone
  • The former president called the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally a "peanut" in comparison to anti-war protests
  • Amid his ongoing criminal hush-money trial, former President Donald Trump called the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which led to the death of a woman, a “peanut” in comparison to anti-war protestors calling for a ceasefire in Gaza .
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McConnell argues against presidential immunity for criminal prosecution

By Lauren Irwin | Just In News | The Hill
  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he doesn’t think presidents should be immune from criminal prosecution for their actions in office, as the Supreme Court heard arguments on the issue related to former President Trump.
  • Asked in a Thursday interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker if he believes a president is above criminal prosecution, McConnell deferred to the Supreme Court.
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US inches closer to finishing Gaza pier

By Brad Dress | Just In News | The Hill
  • Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & National Security newsletter, I'm Brad Dress — your guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond.
  • A senior military official said in a press call that construction and assembly of the pier in the Mediterranean Sea began Thursday off the coast of Gaza.
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Big Tech keeps spending billions on AI. There’s no end in sight.

By Gerrit De Vynck and Naomi Nix | Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
  • Google plans to spend around $12 billion or more each quarter this year on capital expenditures, much of which will be for new data centers, Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said Thursday.
  • Microsoft spent $14 billion in the most recent quarter and expects that to keep increasing “materially,” said Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood.
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Mortar attack on Gaza coast spotlights risk to U.S. pier mission

By Dan Lamothe | Washington Post - Politics
  • Militants launched mortars at Israeli forces in Gaza as they prepared for the arrival of a floating U.S. Army pier dispatched to facilitate delivery of humanitarian aid, U.S. officials said Thursday, an incident that underscores the mission’s vulnerabilities.
  • A senior U.S. military official, speaking to reporters on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the Pentagon, said that assembly of the floating pier began Thursday miles from Gaza.
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‘Zionists Don’t Deserve To Live’: Meet The Leader Of Columbia University’s Anti-Israel Encampment

By Kassy Akiva | The Daily Wire
  • One of the most vocal student activists leading the anti-Israel Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, Khymani James, openly stated in an live-stream of an official university inquiry in January that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
  • Meet Khymani James, a student leader of Columbia University’s anti-Israel Gaza Solidarity Encampment who openly states that “Zionists don’t deserve to live”
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Syrian Kurdish officials hand over 50 women and children linked to Islamic State group to Tajikistan

FOX News International
  • Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria on Thursday handed over 50 women and children — family members of Islamic State militants — to a delegation from Tajikistan for repatriation back home.
  • The 17 women and 33 children, all citizens of Tajikistan, were handed over to a delegation headed by the Tajik ambassador to Kuwait, Zubaydullo Zubaydzoda, Syrian Kurdish officials said.
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OpEd: Is Rep. Sara Jacobs a Friend or Foe of Israel?

By Guest Voice | The Moderate Voice
  • SAN DIEGO — Notwithstanding the generous financial support and leadership in the Jewish community of her grandparents and parents, a growing number of pro-Israel Jews are angry at Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-San Diego) for what they say have been her numerous stands against Israel and in favor of Israel’s adversaries as demonstrated by her voting, advocacy, and even dating.
  • Jacobs’ press secretary, Laura McIlvaine, commented: “Rep. Jacobs has issued over a dozen statements detailing her condemning the Oct. 7th attack including Hamas’ use of sexual violence, supporting Israel’s right to defend itself and providing defensive aid to Israel, and calling for the hostages to be released.
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Critics say the justice should not judge Trump’s election-subversion case, because his wife supported overturning the election, attended Trump’s Jan6 rally. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Bannon Guest Very Excited That Trump Could Prosecute Obama

By Frances Langum | Crooks and Liars
Meet Mike Davis of The Article III Project, a right-wing outfit that backs Mr. Trump’s judicial nominees. Brett Kavanaugh described Davis as a "warrior" on his behalf. Yeah. Now Davis has nothing to do but go on Bannon and make mouth noises regarding fantasies about prosecuting Barack Obama for murder. Video and transcript via Media Matters: MIKE DAVIS (ARTICLE III PROJECT): If the Supreme Court does not rule the right way and protects the presidency and therefore our country, that means the Trump 47 Justice Department can indict President Obama for capital murder, along with now-Judge David Barron on the First Circuit Court of […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Trump Trial Reveals Other Stars Who Paid to Have Unsavory Stories Killed

By Josh Fiallo | Latest From The Cheat Sheet®
ReutersTestimony in Donald Trump’s trial on Thursday revealed a list of other celebrities who allegedly dished out cash—or favors—to have the rights to negative stories purchased and killed by the National Inquirer. Trump has been infamously accused of calling on the magazine’s publisher, David Pecker, to kill negative stories about him during his campaign and presidency’s early days, allegations at the center of Trump’s alleged hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels in 2016. While testifying about this pay-to-kill strategy, however, Pecker also threw a number of other celebrities under the bus who he claimed had reached an agreement with him […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Hamas’s Desperation

By Seth Mandel | Commentary Magazine
  • Then, in a moment of high confidence, the terror group let slip that it could not abide by the outline of the already-lopsided deal Israel was willing to strike because it didn’t have the 40 requisite “humanitarian” captives still alive.
  • The terror group revived the possibility of releasing non-humanitarian hostages in the first round of a new deal after all.
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Oral argument on immunity hints at another Trump trial — but not soon

By Ruth Marcus | Washington Post
  • True, a majority might not be willing to fully accept Trump’s audacious claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his official acts as president.
  • Third, at least some justices appeared interested in a new twist that Trump’s lawyers raised for the first time in their Supreme Court brief: whether the criminal laws under which Trump has been charged can constitutionally be used to prosecute a president if the statutes don’t state explicitly that they apply to the president.
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Biden vexes commoners with yet another election money grab

By James Bovard | Opinion – Latest Op-Eds & News Commentary | New York Post
  • Much of Westchester County was locked down Thursday thanks to President Biden and his vast entourage descending on Irvington for a fundraiser reception in Michael Douglas’ mansion.
  • But Trump supporters might pay a million dollars for a photo of Biden posing proudly by one of the “ air illegal ” planes that deliver deluges of dubious aliens to the Westchester County Airport from foreign airports.
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Criticism, praise of Texas Gov. after dramatic use of troopers on protesters

By Patrick Svitek | Washington Post - Politics
  • But on social media, the governor responded approvingly to the law enforcement response, saying the protesters “belong in jail” and that any students taking part in “hate-filled, antisemitic protests” at public colleges should be expelled.
  • But the aggressiveness of the response has alarmed students, faculty, Democrats and even some Republicans who have previously sided with Abbott in his crusades to protect free speech on college campuses.
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How America Lost Sleep

By Lora Kelley | The Atlantic
  • It’s a subject on Americans’ minds: Late last year, for the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 2001, a majority of surveyed American adults said they would feel better if they slept more; 57 percent of people surveyed said that they need to get more sleep, up from 43 percent in 2013, when the data were last gathered.
  • This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture.
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Viral audio recording of principal making racist remarks was AI-generated, according to police

By Leon Wolf | Blaze Media
  • A viral recording purporting to show a Maryland school principal making racially charged remarks has been determined by police to be a fake, according to WBAL-TV.
  • According to WMAR-TV, Eiswert immediately told police that he suspected that Darien was behind the recording due to animosity over the refusal to renew his contract, as well as an ongoing investigation into an alleged scheme to pay teachers under the table for helping him with his job.
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Trump to campaign in Wisconsin and Michigan next week during off day from hush money trial

By Brett Samuels | Political Campaign News | The Hill
  • Former President Trump will hold campaign events next week in Wisconsin and Michigan, marking the first time he will use a day off from his hush money trial in New York City to visit a battleground state.
  • Following the Wisconsin event, Trump will head to Freeland, Mich., where he will deliver remarks at a rally that evening, his campaign said.
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UK approached Botswana to take ‘unwanted immigrants,’ African country’s foreign minister says

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  • "I can confirm that indeed the British government through the foreign secretary and the minister for Africa did approach Botswana through diplomatic channels to receive illegal migrants that are destined for the United Kingdom, but we did not accede to their request," Kwape told Newzroom Afrika.
  • Lemogang Kwape's comments in a telephone interview with South African television channel Newzroom Afrika on Tuesday came hours after the British Parliament finally passed legislation allowing a contentious plan to send some migrants to Rwanda to move ahead.
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Chicago Museum Says Investigators Have No Evidence Art Was Looted

By Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg | NYT > Top Stories
The Art Institute of Chicago has rebuffed an attempt by New York investigators to seize an Egon Schiele drawing in its collection, asserting in a strongly-worded 132-page court filing that the investigators have produced no evidence that the artwork was looted by the Nazis as they claim.The drawing, “Russian War Prisoner,” was purchased by the Art Institute in 1966. It is one of a number of works by Schiele that ended up in the hands of museums and collectors and have been sought by the heirs of the collector Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish cabaret entertainer from Vienna who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1941.In a court filing in […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Biden campaign to stay on TikTok after president signs bill that could ban app

By Brett Samuels | Just In News | The Hill
The Biden campaign plans to continue using TikTok to reach voters and spread its message even after the president signed legislation that could lead to a ban on the popular app several months down the road. A Biden campaign official told The Hill that TikTok "is one of many places we’re making sure our content is being seen by voters" as part of a strategy to reach Americans through a fragmented media environment. "When the stakes are this high in the election, we are going to use every tool we have to reach young voters where they are," the campaign official said. The campaign is using "enhanced security […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Business groups sue FTC over noncompete ban

By Sylvan Lane | Just In News | The Hill
  • The FTC says the noncompete ban will allow 30 million people, around 18 percent of the U.S. workforce, to change jobs within their industry and earn more money.
  • The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) decision to ban noncompete agreements is being met with opposition from business groups led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Russia vetoes UN resolution to prevent nuclear weapons in space

By Brad Dress | Just In News | The Hill
  • Russia on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have called on all states to prevent the placement of nuclear weapons in space and not take steps to develop weapons of mass destruction that could be deployed above Earth.
  • Russia, together with China, proposed an amendment to the resolution that would have called for states to prevent the placement of any weapons in space, but the measure was defeated, failing to secure the support of nine members of the council.
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US Chamber of Commerce sues FTC over noncompete ban

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  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark said in a statement after the FTC's vote Tuesday that the "decision to ban employer noncompete agreements across the economy is not only unlawful but also a blatant power grab that will undermine American businesses' ability to remain competitive."
  • The Chamber said after the FTC's 3-2 vote, which advanced with the support of the agency's majority Democratic commissioners, that there are already legal frameworks for determining whether a given noncompete should be upheld or dismissed, and would undermine American businesses' competitiveness.
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Kari Lake Flip Flops AGAIN On Abortion

By Tengrain | Crooks and Liars
Self-declared Governor of the Terrible Sand Kingdom of Arizonastan Kari Lake, talking to some IDAHO newspaper, flipped again. I guess she was hoping that the Terrible Sand People of Arizonastan don’t read the papers from there: In an interview with the Idaho Dispatch on Saturday, Lake described the recent court decision upholding the 1864 law: “The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona. But unfortunately, the people running our state have said we’re not going to enforce it,” Lake said, expressing disappointment in steps taken by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes, both Democrats, to block prosecutions […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Republicans break ranks on Arizona abortion ban

By Joseph Choi | Just In News | The Hill
  • The GOP-controlled Arizona House voted Wednesday to repeal an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions, after three Republicans broke ranks to vote with all the chamber’s Democrats.
  • The vote was the third attempt to repeal the law in as many weeks, as Republicans had thwarted Democratic attempts to bring the bill to the floor every other time.
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Supreme Court weighs whether federal law allowing emergency abortions overrides state bans

By Geoff Bennett | PBS NewsHour - Politics
It was a charged atmosphere at the Supreme Court as justices heard arguments in a major abortion case. The court looked at whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide abortion care in emergencies would apply to states with strict bans. More than two dozen states ban or severely restrict abortion and six states have no health exceptions. Geoff Bennett discussed the case with Sarah Varney. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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News Wrap: Blinken visits China for talks aimed at stabilizing relations

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In our news wrap Wednesday, Secretary of State Blinken arrived in China for three days of talks aimed at stabilizing relations, Hamas released video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American-Israeli hostage who was abducted on Oct. 7, Arizona’s Republican-led House voted to repeal the state’s near-total ban on abortions and the Biden administration issued new protections for airline travelers. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Trump Deemed A Co-Conspirator Amid Criminal Case Against Sham 2020 Electors

By Caleb Newton | Bipartisan Report
  • In recent court proceedings in Michigan, state investigator Howard Shock called ex-President Donald Trump an un-indicted co-conspirator in the context of a criminal case in the state over the preparation after the 2020 presidential election of claimed electoral votes for Trump from Michigan.
  • Shock did not provide details in the proceedings about allegations of Trump’s personal involvement, although the former president himself remains under indictment in two other criminal cases at federal and state levels that allege a range of conspiracies targeting the 2020 presidential election results.
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Scranton Joe vs. Park Ave Trump

By Saul Rubin | Crooked Media
  • Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s criminal trial call their first witness: a former National Enquirer publisher who puts the former president at the center of a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 election.
  • WaPo : Prosecutors show numerous pro-Trump headlines in National Enquirer
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Rwanda’s Hope Hostel, which once housed genocide survivors, ready to take in migrants from UK

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  • After they arrive from Britain, the migrants will be shown to their rooms to rest, after which they will be offered food and given some orientation points about Kigali and Rwanda, said hostel manager Ismael Bakina.
  • Rwanda says it's ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled and controversial bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by deporting some of them to the East African country.
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Justices Seemed Split on Emergency Abortion Access

By Matthew Cullen | NYT > Top Stories
  • Supreme Court justices appeared sharply divided today over whether federal law should allow doctors to perform emergency abortions in states that have adopted near-total bans on the procedure.
  • “It could telegraph to states that what Idaho is doing either is or is not OK, and that could change those states’ abortion bans one way or another,” Pam said.
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Trump Didn’t Really Do That Well in Pennsylvania

By Michelle Cottle | NYT > Top Stories
  • The Idaho lawyer, Joshua Turner, had been under fire from the court’s three liberal justices for not being willing to state the plain implications of the state’s ban — that in some circumstances, the health of women could be endangered if doctors are prohibited from ending dangerous pregnancies.
  • But on Wednesday she appeared to be quite critical of a lawyer for the state of Idaho who was defending the state’s near-complete ban on abortion against the Biden administration’s case that all federally funded hospitals are required to provide emergency medical care, which can sometimes include abortions.
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The Ghost of the 1968 Antiwar Movement Has Returned

By Charles M. Blow | NYT > Top Stories
  • Those young demonstrators had come of age seeing continual — and effective — protests during the civil rights movement and national mourning after the assassinations of President John F.
  • Martin Luther King Jr., who a year earlier had staked out his opposition to the war, saying that while he wasn’t attempting “to make North Vietnam or the National Liberation Front paragons of virtue” he wanted to underscore his belief “that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money, like some demonic, destructive suction tube.”
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Netanyahu Calls Student Protests Antisemitic and Says They Must Be Quelled

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg | NYT > Top Stories
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Wednesday that protests at U.S. universities against Israel’s war in Gaza were “horrific” and should be stopped, using his first public comments on the subject to castigate the student demonstrators and portray them as antisemitic.
  • A relatively small number of students have staged protests for months at universities in different parts of the country to protest Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, which began after Hamas led an attack on Israel Oct. 7 in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 others were taken hostage.
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Trump Respects Women, Most Men Say

By Jess Bidgood | NYT > Top Stories
  • This month, The New York Times/Siena College poll asked voters how much they think former President Trump respects women: a lot, some, not much or not at all?
  • A majority of men — 54 percent — said that Trump respects women either “a lot” or “some.”
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Nikki Haley — who isn’t even running anymore — won a sizable percentage of the Pennsylvania GOP presidential primary vote

By Alex Nitzberg | Blaze Media
  • Even though former President Donald Trump is already the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, Nikki Haley, who dropped her Republican presidential primary bid last month, won more than 16% of the vote in the Pennsylvania Republican presidential primary, unofficial results indicate.
  • On the other side of the political aisle, where President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who dropped his primary bid last month, won more than 6% of the vote in the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary, according to the unofficial results.
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Republicans Respond to School Shootings With Bills to Arm Teachers

By Andrew Perez | Politics – Rolling Stone
  • Last week, Iowa’s Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed similar legislation into law that also allows teachers and staff to carry weapons on school grounds.
  • Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of the gun control group Moms Demand Action, tells Rolling Stone that there is no research or evidence for arming teachers to make schools safer, and that these bills try to justify a “guns everywhere culture.”
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House Dem who called for Trump’s arrest sympathetic to scandalous sibling

By Brandon Gillespie | FOX News : Politics
  • Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., a Philadelphia-area congressman who boldly declared in Jan. 2021 that "Donald Trump belongs in prison," has avoided calling for his younger brother, Democratic state Rep. Kevin Boyle, to also face criminal prosecution despite a warrant being issued for his arrest and a drunken tirade at a local bar that was caught on video.
  • From left to right: Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., former President Donald Trump and Democrat Pennsylvania state Rep. Kevin Doyle.
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Biden makes sign of the cross during pro-abortion speech in Florida

By Thomas Catenacci | FOX News : Politics
  • President Biden made the sign of the cross, a gesture Catholics often make before and after prayer, while listening to pro-abortion comments by a fellow Democrat in Florida.
  • At the moment Fried said "15 weeks wasn’t good enough," Biden made the sign of the cross, appearing to mock Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' efforts to limit abortion.
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White House vows to not be quiet on violent protests: ‘Silent is complicit’

By Greg Wehner | FOX News : Politics
  • White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday, ‘We can’t be silent here,’ when it comes to the violent rhetoric and physical threats taking place at college campus protests.
  • White House officials addressed the anti-Israel protests taking place at universities across the country on Wednesday, saying President Biden believes in free speech, but when violent rhetoric and physical intimidation takes place, it must be called out.
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Johnson says calling National Guard on Columbia protests would be ‘appropriate’ if threats ‘not stopped’

By Elizabeth Elkind | FOX News : Politics
  • Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is suggesting the National Guard should soon be called in to quell the Gaza ceasefire protests at Columbia University if they don't peter out themselves.
  • Speaker Mike Johnson did not rule out the National Guard being necessary to quell the Gaza ceasefire protests at Columbia University.
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Trump and Pals Named Unindicted Co-Conspirators in Michigan Fake Elector Plot

By Josh Fiallo | The Daily Beast — Politics
  • The latest fallout of Donald Trump ’s election lies arrived Wednesday, with prosecutors in Michigan revealing that the former president, along with his onetime Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, are unindicted co-conspirators in the criminal case concerning the state’s false elector plot which sought to overturn the state’s presidential election results in 2020.
  • The Michigan special investigator Howard Shock subtly revealed Wednesday that Trump was a co-conspirator, answering “yes” when asked by a defendant’s attorney if the ex-president was considered to be one.
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Mark Zuckerberg appeared to take a shot at Apple’s Vision Pro

By aaltchek@insider.com (Ana Altchek) | Business Insider
  • Zuckerberg said he didn't think augmented reality glasses would make it in the mainstream market until it had "full holographic displays." The comment appears to show his skepticism of the potential success of a product like Apple's Vision Pro .
  • Meta's smart glasses, developed with Ray-Ban, feature AI, a camera, and built-in speakers.
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Sorry, Who Is the Girthmaster?

By Emily Leibert | The Cut
  • Though the Girthmaster (spelled “girthmasterr” on his Twitter profile ) had previously disclosed that he makes between $40,000 and $80,000 a month on the adult-content platform, Rolling Stone reported that it had verified that claim and seen proof that, on a good month, he rakes in even more — and that doesn’t account for his more than 100,000 new followers on Twitter in the past 24 hours alone.
  • A self-described “digital exhibitionist,” he continued posting anonymously on a Reddit account under the handle Girthmaster up until a few years ago, when his girlfriend at the time suggested he start an OnlyFans account.
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How a North Carolina community is confronting divisions, talking through its differences

By Judy Woodruff | PBS NewsHour - Politics
Issues such as inequality, gender identity and education have become the subjects of national debate, with the focus often on what elected leaders in Washington say and do about them. Yet many of these issues play out on the local level in communities with their own histories and challenges. Judy Woodruff traveled to one such community in North Carolina for her series, America at a Crossroads. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Chris Christie Appeared To Joke About Wishing For A Trump-Ramaswamy ‘Death Match’ Where ‘They Both Die’

By Harold Hutchison | Politics – The Daily Caller
  • The audience at a Tuesday event laughed when former Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey appeared to joke about wishing for a “death match” between former President Donald Trump and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
  • “I would have preferred any of those people over Trump,” Christie told the audience.
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Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe

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  • Those indicted include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman .
  • But Mayes charges that Trump’s allies inside and outside of Arizona intended all along to use the electors to falsely claim that the outcome of the election was in doubt — facilitating an effort to obstruct the certification of Biden’s victory in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
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How Trump turned the 2016 primary into a supermarket tabloid gutter fight

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  • Back in March 2016, as the Republican presidential primary narrowed to a showdown between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, unsubstantiated rumors about the senator from Texas having extramarital affairs started appearing in the National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid of wide circulation and ill repute.
  • Pecker’s testimony here Tuesday detailed a close alliance between Trump and the National Enquirer that sullied Trump’s rivals while protecting him and lowering the entire race to the level of sordid, sensational scare headlines.
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Read the full text of the Arizona 2020 election interference indictment

By Washington Post staff | Washington Post - Politics
Several of former president Donald Trump’s close associates and allies have been indicted in Arizona for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results by trying to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Joe Biden, who won the state by 10,457 votes.The charges follow a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D). Arizona is the fourth state, after Michigan, Georgia and Nevada, to seek charges against those who formed an alternate slate of presidential electors. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Carey Wright will continue to lead Md. schools, state board announces

By Nicole Asbury | Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
  • The Maryland State Board of Education on Wednesday appointed Carey Wright, a former Mississippi schools chief who started her career in the D.C. region, to serve as the next state superintendent of schools.
  • Wright, the current interim state superintendent, will be charged with steering the department of education as it implements the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, a landmark education law that funnels billions into public schools in hopes of making the state’s education system one of the best in the nation.
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Biden’s breathtaking political cynicism laid bare in his ‘both sides’ response to Jew-hating protests

By Isaac Schorr | Opinion – Latest Op-Eds & News Commentary | New York Post
  • For months now, Biden has prioritized his political interests in having the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party turn out for him in November over the geopolitical interests of his country.
  • And in an especially contemptible moment this month, Biden blamed the failure to achieve a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on the Israeli government.
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Zuckerberg warned investors that Meta’s AI investment will take ‘several years’ before it pays off. Meta’s stock price tumbled.

By lloydlee@insider.com (Lloyd Lee) | Business Insider
  • A second aspect of Meta's report that's clouding the first-quarter performance results is the company's massive investments in AI, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg said will be necessary before the company can expect to see major returns.
  • Despite posting record revenue for the January-March quarter, Meta's stock is being bogged down on Wednesday by the company's increasing investments in AI.
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New California bill would restrict line-skipping service Clear at airports in name of equity

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  • New legislation being proposed in California would restrict the expedited security screening company Clear from operating in the state’s airports, as proponents say the service raises equity issues given it effectively lets wealthier people skip ahead of passengers waiting in line to be screened by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents.
  • "It's a basic equity issue when you see people subscribed to a concierge service being escorted in front of people who have waited a long time to get to the front of TSA line," Newman told CBS MoneyWatch.
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Meadows, Giuliani and other former Trump aides indicted in Arizona 2020 election probe

By Misty Severi | Just The News - Not The Noise
An Arizona grand jury on Wednesday indicted former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, and five other former aides to former President Donald Trump on felony charges related to alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Eleven other Arizona Republicans have also been indicted on the felony charges, according to the Washington Post. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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What fliers need to know about new refund rules for airlines

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  • New federal rules for airlines will go into effect later this year, giving travelers a better picture of the full cost of flights before they book — and getting them an easier refund if things go awry.
  • That means refund rules that get customers automatic cash refunds when airlines cancel or significantly change flights won’t be in place during the busy summer travel season.
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Eric Adams unveils improved budget picture

By Joe Anuta | Politico
  • Brannan, speaking to reporters following the mayor's announcement, said the body’s economists believe there is more than $1 billion in additional revenue currently sitting in the city’s coffers that could be spent to restore earlier cuts and fund programs like trauma recovery centers that cater to victims of domestic violence.
  • “The mayor’s executive budget begins to reverse a fraction of previous cuts that have proven harmful to our city’s stability and were unnecessary in the context of our resilient economy, but significant work remains ahead to ensure a city budget that advances the health, safety, and strength of our communities,” Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Council Member Justin Brannan, who chairs the Finance Committee, said in a joint statement.
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Fauci to testify before Congress for the first time since stepping down

By Joseph Choi | Just In News | The Hill
  • “During Dr. Fauci’s closed-door interview in January, he testified to serious systemic failures in our public health system that deserve further investigation, including his testimony that the ‘6 feet apart’ social distancing guidance — which was used to shut down small businesses and schools across America — ‘sort of just appeared,'" Wenstrup said in a statement.
  • Anthony Fauci, former chief medical adviser to President Biden, will testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on June 3, making it the first time he will appear before a congressional panel since leaving government work at the end of 2022.
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Pennsylvania primary proves Trump still has to win over regular Republicans

By Post Editorial Board | editorial | New York Post
  • If Trump wants to decisively clinch a win on Election Day, his team needs to read the tea leaves: He still has work to do in winning over some traditional Republicans and right-leaning independents, who may still not vote at all, or even choose Biden.
  • But that general-election poll shows he’s barely ahead in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, while President Biden has eked out a lead in Michigan — and it’s a long way to November.
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Randy Mastro is more than qualified to be NYC’s top lawyer

By Post Editorial Board | editorial | New York Post
  • As the city’s top lawyer, Mastro would lead the Law Department and provide legal counsel to the Adams administration — roles he’s eminently qualified for.
  • Yet Cabán & Co. now want to pick-and-choose which clients are worthy of legal defense from a gifted attorney — simply because that lawyer is Randy Mastro.
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Arizona Grand Jury Indicts Donald Trump Allies, 11 Fake Electors

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New Complaint Alleges Trump Campaign Hid Millions in Lawyer Payments

By Roger Sollenberger | The Daily Beast Latest Articles
  • On Wednesday morning, The Daily Beast published a report detailing how Donald Trump ’s presidential campaign and four associated PACs have been using a GOP compliance firm to pay legal fees, obscuring who is the ultimate recipient of millions of dollars in legal payments.
  • The arrangement—in which the five Trump committees have reimbursed GOP compliance firm, Red Curve Solutions, for millions of dollars in advanced legal costs—makes Red Curve the single largest recipient of Trump’s legal payments over the last year, and suggests that the company has been unlawfully fronting those costs for Trump’s political committees, the complaint argues.
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11 indicted in Arizona 2020 election probe

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  • Rusty Bowers, then the Arizona House speaker, told the House Jan. 6 committee that following the election he received calls from Trump and attorney Rudy Giuliani claiming that there was election fraud in the state.
  • Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has announced charges against 11 alleged fake electors, the office announced in a press release on Wednesday, for their alleged role in a scheme after the 2020 presidential election.
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Black Conservatives Blast Biden Admin’s ‘Soft Bigotry’ After It Sues Sheetz For Discrimination

By Robert McGreevy | Politics – The Daily Caller
  • Biden’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing gas station chain Sheetz for what they say are discriminatory hiring practices because Sheetz screens job applicants for criminal records, the lawsuit claims.
  • “Sheetz has maintained a longstanding practice of screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction and then denying them employment based on those records,” the EEOC statement alleges.
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Johnson: ‘There is an appropriate time’ for National Guard if student protesters don’t disperse

By Mychael Schnell | Just In News | The Hill
  • The comments from Johnson came during a combative press conference the Speaker held with Republican lawmakers at Columbia University in New York City, during which they called on pro-Palestine protesters who have set up an encampment on campus to disperse and denounced the antisemitism percolating through campus — all while the crowd heckled the group .
  • Johnson called on Columbia President Minouche Shafik to resign from her post — he met with her minutes before the public event — saying she should step down “if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos.”
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Arizona grand jury indicts 2020 Trump electors

By Axios Phoenix | Axios
  • The Republican electors who submitted votes falsely asserting that former President Trump won Arizona in 2020 have been indicted, the state's Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Wednesday.
  • Why it matters: Arizona is the fourth state to bring charges against electors who falsely cast votes for Trump in states that President Biden won, along with Michigan, Georgia and Nevada .
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‘One Step Closer’: Arizona House Votes to Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban

By Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams
  • Applauding the House passage of H.B. 2677, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona president and CEO Angela Florez said that "today, Arizona is one step closer to repealing the state's Civil War-era total abortion ban.
  • Three Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives on Wednesday joined with Democrats to advance legislation that would repeal an 1864 ban on abortion—a development rights advocates welcomed while stressing that the fight is far from over.
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Princess Beatrice’s Ex-Boyfriend Found Dead in Miami Hotel Room

By Josh Fiallo | The Daily Beast Latest Articles
  • Cops said they were called to a downtown hotel room on Feb. 7 at the citizenM Miami Worldcenter, where the 41-year-old Paolo Liuzzo was discovered and pronounced dead at 3:34 p.m.
  • Princess Beatrice’ s former boyfriend turned up dead in a Miami hotel earlier this year from a suspected drug overdose, Florida cops confirmed to The Daily Beast on Wednesday.
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McConnell hits Biden for ‘sending a green light to Putin’ with Afghanistan withdrawal

By Lauren Irwin | Just In News | The Hill
  • McConnell joined Fox News's "America’s Newsroom" on Wednesday after the Senate passed aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia after a months-long delay.
  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized President Biden for “sending a green light” to Russian President Vladimir Putin when the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan.
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Aid to Ukraine seemed dead. Then secretive talks revived it.

Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
  • But Biden and the others had devised a plan to pressure Johnson to push through a Ukraine aid package that was deeply dividing House Republicans.
  • Through high-level intelligence briefings, secretive meetings between the president and the four congressional leaders, and weeks of intensive strategizing, the bill finally passed the House last Saturday with an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 311-112.
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Speaker Johnson To Columbia Protestors: ‘Go Back To Class And Stop The Nonsense’

Politics
  • House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), backed by a small group of fellow Republican House members, had a simple message Wednesday for Columbia University students who have set up a protest in the college’s main square.
  • Whether you come to HuffPost for updates on the 2024 presidential race, hard-hitting investigations into critical issues facing our country today, or trending stories that make you laugh, we appreciate you.
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Editorial: The Bears may stir Chicago’s blood with splashy pitch for a lakefront stadium. We’re not convinced.

By The Editorial Board | Opinion
  • Chicago Bears CEO Kevin Warren, along with Mayor Brandon Johnson, invoked the illustrious name of the legendary architect Daniel Burnham more than a dozen times Wednesday in their slick public presentation on the team’s domed-stadium plan for Chicago’s lakefront.
  • Johnson, badly struggling in the first year of his term by any reasonable definition, looks to us like he’s picked this majestic facility on the lakefront, not to mention the intensity of Bears fandom, to pull his mayoralty out of the ditch.
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Giuliani and Meadows Among Trump Pals Charged in Arizona’s 2020 Election Probe

By Josh Fiallo | The Daily Beast — Politics
  • “We conducted a thorough and professional investigation over the past 13 months into the fake electors scheme in our state,” Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a video statement.
  • An Arizona grand jury indicted seven attorneys and aides linked to Donald Trump ’s 2020 presidential campaign on Wednesday, including his onetime Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani .
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Watch: Abortion Advocate Desperately Tries to Interrupt Pastor’s Prayer at Capitol, Fails Miserably

By Michael Schwarz | Commentary Archives - The Western Journal
  • At the state capitol in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday, Pastor Jeff Durbin showed the power of humility and mercy when he led a prayer on behalf of unborn children and continued praying despite the futile efforts of one woman to disrupt the solemn gathering.
  • Durbin, a teaching elder at Apologia Church in Mesa, Arizona, and the head of the End Abortion Now organization, prayed Wednesday in a gathering outside the capitol for the children and for those charged with protecting them.
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Watchdog Urges FEC to Investigate Trump Campaign Over Scheme for Legal Fees

By Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams
  • The Washington, D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center (CLC) said that "evidence appears to show an illegal arrangement between several Trump-affiliated committees and a compliance firm named Red Curve Solutions that is designed to obscure the identities of those providing legal services and how much they are being paid."
  • CLC alleges that the Trump campaign, Trump's political action committee (PAC) Save America, and three affiliated organizations "violated federal reporting requirements based on a scheme in which the committees reportedly paid over $7.2 million—described as 'reimbursement for legal' costs or expenses"—to Red Curve.
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News Agency Hack Spawns Presidential Assassination Hoax

By Shannon Vavra | The Daily Beast Latest Articles
  • Hackers broke into a Czech news service site and spread a fake story about an assassination plot against the newly elected president of Slovakia on Tuesday.
  • “BIS prevented an assassination attempt on the newly elected Slovak President Peter Pelligrine,” the fraudulent headline said, referring to a Czech spy agency, the Security Information Service (BIS).
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4 Million More Workers Could Be Eligible For Overtime Pay Under New Biden Rule

Politics
  • The Labor Department’s regulation would ensure that salaried workers who earn less than $58,656 per year would automatically be entitled to overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week, starting in 2025.
  • The agency estimated that the change would extend the overtime law’s coverage to an additional four million workers, meaning they couldn’t be forced to work extra hours without their employers paying a premium.
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New York hush money trial judge considers if Trump violated gag order

By William Brangham | PBS NewsHour - Politics
Former President Trump’s hush money trial continued Tuesday. On the witness stand, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker described the relationship between Trump and the tabloid during the 2016 campaign, where it would squash negative stories about him and publish critical ones about his rivals. But as William Brangham reports, the judge has to rule on Trump’s behavior outside the court. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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The College Financial-Aid Scramble

By Lora Kelley | The Atlantic
  • The botched rollout has posed problems for students who want to compare financial-aid offers before they commit to a university, Sandy Baum, an expert on higher-education financing and a nonresident senior fellow at the Urban Institute, told me.
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To Be (Visibly) Jewish in the Ivy League

NYT > Opinion
  • On Saturday evening he and his friend Sahar Tartak, a Yale sophomore and an Orthodox Jew, paid a visit to the university’s Beinecke Plaza, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators had set up an encampment.
  • Yale and other universities have been sites of almost continual demonstrations since Hamas massacred and kidnapped Israelis on Oct. 7.
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I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.

NYT > Opinion
  • I had to tell the students we could not listen to that piece that afternoon, because the surrounding noise would have been not birds or people walking by in the hallway, but infuriated chanting from protesters outside the building.
  • Why do so many people think that weekslong campus protests against not just the war in Gaza but Israel’s very existence are nevertheless permissible?
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Ukraine Aid in the Light of History

NYT > Opinion
  • And I’m worried because that faction remains powerful — a majority of Republicans in the House voted against Ukraine aid — and could still doom Ukraine in the years ahead.
  • To understand these points, I find it useful to look back at the obvious historical parallel to current aid to Ukraine: Franklin Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease program, which began delivering aid to Britain and China in 1941, before Pearl Harbor brought America officially into World War II.
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What do companies still in Russia value most: Reputation, principles or profit?

By Michael Poolsky | The Washington Times stories: Opinion
  • They act seemingly unaware of the stark contradiction of this stance with their complicity in military aggression and human rights violations enacted by supporting the state with tax revenue and the economic activity they generate.
  • It has been over two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, yet many well-known international brands, despite global condemnation and strict multilateral sanctions, continue to cling to the Russian market.
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LOVERRO: Washington has had its share of springtime saviors. Remember Heath Shuler?

By Thom Loverro | The Washington Times stories: Opinion
  • In 1994 the decision makers were Super Bowl general manager Charley Casserly and new coach Norv Turner, just hired after leading the Dallas Cowboys offense to two Super Bowl titles and hailed as the offensive genius of his time (in the resume department, that would seem to be them a step ahead of rookie GM Peters and former Cowboys defensive coordinator Quinn).
  • These are not the choices Washington fans hope they have with Daniels, Maye and McCarthy, as this quarterback group is rated to be a strong one coming out of college.
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Trump’s trial is about politics, not justice

By Jonathan Emord | The Washington Times stories: Opinion
  • Lawyers who list “legal fees” in business documents do so precisely because greater specificity would potentially violate the attorney-client privilege (revealing what legal services were requested and performed and thereby arguably waiving the privilege).
  • Any court that based its judgment on the rule of law would dismiss the case, but politics now controls justice.
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Yellowstone’s Wolves: A Debate Over Their Role in the Park’s Ecosystem

By Jim Robbins | NYT > Top Stories
  • The wolves’ return and predatory dominance was believed to have had a widespread effect known as a trophic cascade, by decreasing grazing and restoring and expanding forests, grasses and other wildlife.
  • Since then, a story has grown up, based on early research, that as the wolves increased in number, they hunted the park’s elk herds, significantly reducing them by about half from 17,000.
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Biden’s Civil Rights Rollback

By KC Johnson | The Free Press
  • Last Friday, the Biden administration followed through on a promise: to roll back civil rights for college students accused of sexual misconduct.
  • Accused students will lose the right to have access to all evidence gathered in the university’s Title IX investigation;
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First Witness in Trump Trial Sets Stage for Future Testimonies

By Jesse McKinley | NYT - Politics
If last week’s process of selecting jurors was a kind of prologue to the criminal trial of Donald Trump, today marked the robust beginning of the first act, complete with introduction of the plot and foreshadowing of future drama.The government’s first witness, David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, had laid out the basics of his résumé and his style of “checkbook journalism” in about 30 minutes of testimony yesterday.But today was a longer, more in-depth session, running about two and a half hours. Pecker set the stage for future testimony by other witnesses and plunged into a crucial element in the state’s case: that […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Biden Will Speak at Morehouse and West Point Graduations

NYT - Politics
President Biden will deliver commencement addresses next month at Morehouse College in Georgia and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point at a time when anger over U.S. foreign policy has led to an eruption of student protests at several campuses.In addition to the relatively traditional speech at West Point, which presidents often deliver at least once during their tenure, the stop at Morehouse will give Mr. Biden an opportunity to speak to students at a historically Black college in a key battleground state as he works to shore up support among young voters.The announcement from the White House on Tuesday came during heightened tensions […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Senate Approves Aid for Ukraine and Israel, Sending It to Biden’s Desk

NYT - Politics
  • The Senate on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to move toward a final vote on the long-stalled $95.3 billion package of aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, taking a crucial step toward approving the measure and sending it to President Biden for his signature.
  • “Today the Senate sends a unified message to the entire world: America will always defend democracy in its hour of need,” Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, said on Tuesday.
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Student Editorial Boards Rebuke College Officials for Protest Decisions

By Anna Betts and Jonathan Wolfe | NYT > Top Stories
Cracking down on this nonviolent protest group will only inflame community relations at a time when the opposite is needed. By forcing the PSC — and, due to its own club recognition freeze, several of the PSC’s partners — to operate underground, Harvard further alienates pro-Palestinian students, compromising its ability to engage with them constructively. The chaos at Columbia, in no small part a result of the University suspending student advocacy groups last semester, makes that much clear. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Jury Weighs Claims of Abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison Against Contractor, 20 Years Later

By Mattathias Schwartz | NYT > Top Stories
The journalist said he was left naked overnight in a cold prison cell with a bag over his head, chained by his wrists to a pipe.The fruit vendor said he was forced to take off his clothes and masturbate, while his captors watched and took photos.The middle-school principal said he was told he would be raped, and that his family would be brought to the prison and raped as well.At a federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., a jury listened last week to the accounts of three Iraqis who were arrested by U.S. forces after the 2003 invasion of Iraq and then held at Abu Ghraib prison.Abuses like those the men say they endured have already been […]Read more >Similar articles >