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Today's Top News Compilation - Sunday, Apr. 12, 2020

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Happy Easter! Below are some of the top political news stories of the day: ¯\_(?)_/¯

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Trump administration taps controversial conservative journalist for top job

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The Trump administration is filling one of the State Department’s top positions with a conservative journalist who has promoted conspiracy theories related to Jan. 6.
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Trump administration ends temporary immigration program for thousands of Venezuelans

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Trump administration is terminating an immigration program that currently protects hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. from deportation, paving the way for many of them to lose their legal status this spring, according to a government notice obtained by CBS News.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this weekend revoked one of two Temporary Protected Status designations for Venezuela, which the U.S. government had previously determined was too dangerous to allow Venezuelans to return to their homeland safely.

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Sen. Warner says Trump removal of security for officials is "all about retribution"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said Sunday that President Trump's decision to remove security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley is "all about retribution."

"This is all about retribution, and he's putting people's lives in danger, which is just unbelievable," Warner said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

Since Mr. Trump took office last month, his administration has revoked the federal security details of Pompeo and Milley, along with...
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DNC lambasted for 'beyond parody' leadership vote that included singing, gender rules: 'Can’t stop laughing'

  • News source: FOX News
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Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Canadians have begun booing the US anthem at sports games, signalling the depth of anger at steep US tariffs.
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Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX win early Grammys

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The first of 94 trophies is handed out in Los Angeles, as the 67th Grammy Awards get underway.
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Thousands flee homes as floods hit Australia

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Meteorologists say these could be the worst floods to hit northern Queensland in 60 years.
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Fans at Raptors game continue trend of booing US national anthem in Canada

  • News source: Ian Harrison | The Associated Press
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Fans at a Toronto Raptors game continued an emerging trend Sunday of booing the American national anthem at pro sporting events in Canada.

Fans of the NBA's lone Canadian franchise booed the anthem after similar reactions broke out Saturday night at NHL games in Ottawa, Ontario, and Calgary, Alberta; hours after U.S. President Donald Trump made his threat of import tariffs on America's northern neighbor a reality.

After initially cheering for the 15-year-old female singer, fans booed throughout “The Star-Spangled Banner” performance. At the end...
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DOE employees who took DEI training during Trump's first term placed on leave, union rep says

  • News source: Yamiche Alcindor | NBC News
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Dozens of employees who attended a diversity training course encouraged by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during President Donald Trump’s first administration have been placed on paid leave as part of Trump’s targeting of DEI programs, a union official told NBC News.

Sheria Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents hundreds of Education Department employees, told NBC News that at least 55 employees were placed on leave as of Friday evening and that she expected the number to grow as she...
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Two top security officials at USAID placed on leave, sources say

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development have been placed on administrative leave, the latest in a series of suspensions and layoffs at the American government's primary humanitarian aid agency.

President Trump is considering dramatic changes to USAID, as advisers examine where there's overlap with other agencies or where its spending runs counter to the president's stances.

USAID Director for Security John Vorhees and Deputy Director for Security Brian McGill were put on leave Saturday night, two sources...
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NY Dems working to keep Stefanik's House seat vacant for months in latest scheme against Trump: assemblyman

  • News source: FOX News
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New York Democratic lawmakers are working to keep Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik's House seat vacant until the summer in an unprecedented move hashed out during late-night discussions last week, a Republican Empire State assemblyman told Fox Digital.

"We still haven't seen the final proposal from the Democrats in Albany, but there's no doubt that Tammany Hall corruption is alive and well in the state capital," Republican New York Assemblyman Matt Slater, who represents the state's 94th district in areas of Putnam and Westchester counties, told Fox...
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Air traffic control staffing 'not normal' during DC crash - officials

  • News source: BBC News - World
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US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there was a "consolidation of air traffic controllers an hour before it was supposed to happen".
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Around 160,000 protest against far-right in Berlin

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The protests came after some parties voted alongside the far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), over a non-binding resolution on immigration last week.
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Israel's Netanyahu heads to US to discuss ‘victory over Hamas' with Trump

  • News source: Tia Goldenberg | The Associated Press
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will discuss "victory over Hamas,” countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries in his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Tuesday's meeting at the White House will be Trump's first with a foreign leader since returning to office. It comes as U.S. and Arab mediators begin the daunting work of brokering the next phase of a ceasefire agreement to wind down the 15-month war in Gaza.

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Rubio meets with Panamanian president amid Trump's Panama Canal push

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino Sunday amid his first overseas trip, as the Trump administration makes a push for control of the Panama Canal.

Rubio, the first Latino secretary of state, made the trip in part to reiterate President Trump's concern that China has too much influence over the Panama Canal, and needs control of the waterway for economic security, though Mulino has refuted the claim. Rubio is set to tour the canal later Sunday.

The Panama Cana serves as a shortcut between the Pacific Ocean...
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