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Today's Political News Compilation - Thursday, July 25, 2024

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Vice President Kamala Harris says she’s “ready to debate Donald Trump.” She accused Trump of “backpedaling” away from a previous agreement for a debate hosted by ABC News on Sept. 10. Trump has said he would prefer to shift the event to Fox News.
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Harris says she’s ready to debate Trump and accuses him of ‘backpedaling’ from Sept. 10 faceoff​

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters on Thursday that she’s “ready to debate Donald Trump.”

She accused him of “backpedaling” away from a previous agreement for a debate hosted by ABC News on Sept. 10.

“I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on the debate stage,” she said after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a trip to Indiana and Texas.

The Sept. 10 debate was one of two debates that President Joe Biden and Trump had agreed on. The first one was hosted by CNN on June 27, but Biden has since dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris as his successor. ...

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Prosecutors urge judge not to toss out Trump’s hush money conviction, pushing back on immunity claim

The Manhattan district attorney’s office argued in court papers that the verdict should stand despite the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity.
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Days before a Biden rule against anti-LGBTQ bias takes effect, judges are narrowing its reach

The rule, which is intended to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination, is now blocked in 21 states.
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China and Russia stage first joint bomber patrol near Alaska

The patrol comes amid US warnings of deepening ties between China and Russia.
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Biden signs bill strengthening oversight of crisis-plagued US Bureau of Prisons after AP reporting

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill strengthening oversight of the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons after The Associated Press exposed systemic corruption and abuse in the prison system.
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Harris edges closer to Trump in new poll conducted after Biden's withdrawal

Former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Harris by one percentage point in a new poll after Biden's withdrawal.
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Biden expected to forcefully urge Netanyahu to accept ceasefire deal in Thursday meeting | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House Thursday afternoon, where sources told CNN the president was expected to be as forceful as he has ever been in urging Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire agreement, as US officials believe that a deal may be on...
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Harris refashions campaign in her own image as she prepares for historic clash with Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris is putting her own stamp on the campaign that she inherited from President Joe Biden.
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Republicans rip FBI director's testimony that Trump might not have been hit by a bullet

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Wednesday that the former president might have been hit by shrapnel in the July 13 assassination attempt.
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Harris tells Netanyahu 'it is time' to end the war in Gaza and bring the hostages home

Vice President Kamala Harris says she urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal soon with Hamas so that dozens of hostages held in Gaza since the Oct. 7 attack can return home.
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Harris has to recapture the young Latino voters Biden was losing

Latino voters skew younger and are key if Democrats want to secure victories in battleground states.
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NORAD intercepts Russian and Chinese bombers operating together near Alaska in first such flight | CNN Politics

NORAD intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers flying near Alaska Wednesday in what a US defense official said was the first time the two countries have been intercepted while operating together.
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2025 Could Be a Great Time to Be President, Economically Speaking

The next couple of years are shaping up to be solid for the U.S. economy. Inflation is returning to normal. As that happens, the Federal Reserve is preparing to cut interest rates. A huge burst of infrastructure spending under the Biden administration has taken time to ramp up, but projects both...
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Gabrielle Giffords stumps for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania as campaign for running mate takes shape

Gabrielle Giffords, the former Democratic congresswoman who was grievously wounded in a 2011 shooting, is taking to the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris, as Harris’ nascent presidential campaign gets off the ground and a parallel campaign to be Harris’ running mate takes shape.
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House leaves town until September with little to show voters

House Republicans' last action before departing for a six-week recess was to pass a messaging bill criticizing likely presidential nominee Kamala Harris on the border.
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Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court’s code of conduct needs an enforcement plan. Takeaways from her wide-ranging comments. | CNN Politics

Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday defended the code of conduct the Supreme Court created last year, but conceded there needs to be a way to enforce the rules for it to be more effective.
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Israel war on Gaza updates: Israeli ‘snipers shooting anyone who moves’

These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza for Thursday, July 25.
www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
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North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on NASA, U.S. hospitals; $10 million reward offered

The State Department is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the location of members of the malicious cyber hacking group Andariel.
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Democratic convention planners are working to pull off a dramatic Biden-Harris role reversal

Organizers of next month’s Democratic National Convention are tossing out their script. The Democratic Party will have a new nominee, a re-crafted program and less than a month to pull off what is normally planned over the course of a year.
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www.aljazeera.com

Ukraine holds the front line, seeks Chinese mediation for talks with Russia

Ukraine’s foreign minister visited Beijing for the first time during the war, as Kyiv turns to diplomacy to win war aims
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CNN commentator presses David Axelrod on Biden's forced campaign exit: 'Lot of dishonesty'

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod was pressed to explain President Biden's sudden choice to withdraw from the presidential race by CNN commentator Scott Jennings.
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