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Today's Top News Compilation - Friday, May 22, 2020

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Trump and His Allies Link Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Comment to 2016 ‘Deplorables’ Remark

  • News source: Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
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Within minutes of the clip of President Biden’s remarks going viral, the Trump campaign and others were using it to attack Kamala Harris and Democrats.
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Biden Appears to Insult Trump Supporters as ‘Garbage,’ but Quickly Tries to Clarify

  • News source: Zolan Kanno-Youngs
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In a posting on social media, President Biden said he was talking about racist language, not Trump supporters.
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"Supporters" or "supporter's"? Biden remark about Trump "garbage" rally angers GOP

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Biden reinserted himself into the contentious campaign to succeed him, appearing to call former President Donald Trump's supporters "garbage" on a video call with Latino activists Tuesday evening. Republicans seized on the comments, while the White House offered a different explanation of what Mr. Biden said.

The president was responding to a joke made at a Trump rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, in which Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage."

In the video clip obtained by CBS...
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Man who threatened Fani Willis gets nearly 2 years in prison

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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An Alabama man who left threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county sheriff last summer because he was angry over an investigation into former President Donald Trump was sentenced Tuesday to nearly two years in federal prison.

Arthur Ray Hanson II, of Huntsville, made the phone calls just over a week before Trump and 18 others were indicted in Fulton County in August 2023 over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Federal prosecutors say Hanson left voicemails laced with profanity and...
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Michelle Obama, Rallying Young Voters Near Atlanta, Warns of ‘Apathy’

  • News source: Maya King and Alan Blinder
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With just a few days left to vote early in Georgia, the former first lady offered a bracing tutorial in the realities of political power, beseeching young people to reach out to the undecided voters in their lives.
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Partial Breach of Election Machine Passwords in Colorado Poses No Risk, State Says

  • News source: Nick Corasaniti
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The secretary of state said that the machines are not online, require a second set of passwords and are under constant surveillance in locked rooms.
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As Trump Sows Doubt on Pennsylvania Voting, Officials Say the System Is Working

  • News source: Campbell Robertson and Mattathias Schwartz
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Donald Trump is using reports about suspicious voter registrations to cast the election as already flawed. County officials say the episodes are being distorted.
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Nikki Haley Says She Is ‘on Standby’ to Campaign for Donald Trump

  • News source: Chris Cameron
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Ms. Haley, a former rival of Mr. Trump, has repeatedly offered advice and criticism to Mr. Trump and other Republican candidates from the sidelines.
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When Will the Presidential Race Be Called? Here’s What to Know.

  • News source: Maggie Astor
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It could take days to know the winner, as it did in 2020, because counting mail ballots takes time. But returns on election night could also offer clarity.
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Bodies recovered after flash floods in Spain

  • News source: BBC News - World
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An unspecified number of bodies are recovered amid flash floods in Spain, the leader of the Valencia region says.
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PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.
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Harris says fear and division stirred by Trump is ‘not who we are'

  • News source: Zeke Miller | Associated Press
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Kamala Harris told Americans on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s efforts to sow division and fear are “not who we are” as she reinforced her campaign’s closing argument by delivering it from the same site where the Republican former president fomented the Capitol insurrection in 2021.

One week out from Election Day, the vice president used the address from the grassy Ellipse near the White House to pledge to Americans that she would work to improve their lives while arguing that her Republican opponent is only in it for himself.

Trump "has spent a...
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Meet the 20-year-old Democrat running a multimillion-dollar PAC targeting Gen Z

  • News source: Alex Seitz-Wald | NBC News
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From his “war room” decorated with political merch and “awesome memes” in his mom’s South Jersey home, David Austin, 20, has raised almost $18 million for his super PAC trying to reach Gen Z voters like him, arguing it takes a young person to communicate with young people.

“You need real young people,” said Austin, the founder of ForwardBlue. “And that’s part of what a lot of these large organizations miss out on. Their staff are significantly older than the generations that they’re trying to reach and they’re relying on historical best practices...
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Inside a secure Arizona facility printing election ballots

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Phoenix — Inside a secure facility with armed guards in Phoenix, Arizona, the sound of democracy reverberates as ballots are printed, sorted, stuffed and shipped.

The Runbeck Election Services facility near the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport will print about 35 million ballots for counties in eight states for the November election, including Arizona, Nevada, California, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Florida and Illinois.

"We don't over-print anything," said Jeff Ellington, Runbeck's CEO. "So every step, as we go through, we print exactly what...
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Elon Musk Sees Trump’s Economic Plans Causing ‘Temporary Hardship’

  • News source: Alan Rappeport and Theodore Schleifer
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Mr. Musk agreed with an X post saying there would be an “initial severe overreaction in the economy” before returning to sustainable growth if Mr. Trump is elected and follows through on his plans.
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