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Today's Top News Compilation - Wednesay, May 20, 2020

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Fire engulfs main stage of Tomorrowland festival, two days before opening

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Footage on social media shows flames ravaging the Belgian festival's main stage, just two days before it opens.
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Thai woman arrested for blackmailing monks with thousands of videos after sex

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The woman, known as "Ms Golf", allegedly had sexual relations with monks and extorted money from them.
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AOC, Sanders welcome Mamdani to DC for his Capitol Hill debut, urging reluctant Dems to 'get to know him'

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., pulled back the curtain on New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's "productive" meeting with Democratic lawmakers in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

When asked by Fox News' Chad Pergram how Mamdani's message resonated with Democrats during a "Communication and Organizing Skillshare Breakfast," Ocasio-Cortez said the Democratic nominee shared critical insights about how to "level up all of our games in terms of technique."

The progressive superstar urged the outstanding Mamdani skeptics to "get to...
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House Republicans float grilling Joe, Jill Biden as former aides stonewall cover-up probe

  • News source: FOX News
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House Oversight Committee Republicans are not ruling out potentially compelling former President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden to appear before Congress as part of an investigation into whether signs of Biden's mental decline were covered up during his time in the White House.

"Every option's on the table. We're going to try to get answers. We're going to try to do this rapidly," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters when asked if the former president could be brought in for questioning.

"We'll decide as...
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Republicans fixated on Epstein are getting 'duped' by Democrats, Trump insists

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Republicans fixated on Jeffrey Epstein are getting "duped" by Democrats, further defending Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the case.

During an Oval Office meeting with the crown prince and prime minister of Bahrain, Trump said his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, reversed his first-term energy policies, leading to higher inflation.

"What Biden did is he ended our policies," Trump told reporters. "He doesn't have a policy. Some lunatic around the desk had a policy. Whoever operated the...
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Michelle Obama: Not "one moment" where she "thought about quitting my man"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama brushed off recent divorce rumors on an episode of her podcast released Wednesday — and the former first lady asserted "there hasn't been one moment in our marriage where I thought about quitting my man."

"Wait, you guys like each other?" Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama's older brother, asked on the latest episode of their podcast, "IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson" as the former first couple embraced.

"She took me back," Barack Obama joked. "It was touch and go for a while."

"It's so nice...
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Abrego Garcia set for pivotal hearing on whether he will remain in US pending trial

  • News source: FOX News
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Salvadorian migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in federal court in Tennessee, where a federal judge on Wednesday will hear an appeal from the Justice Department seeking to keep him detained in criminal custody pending trial.

The request to U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw from the Justice Department caps off months of confusing and contradictory statements from the Trump administration in the case of Abrego Garcia, who was erroneously deported to El Salvador in March in violation of a court order, and returned to the U.S. three months later in...
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Former DC councilmember wins back seat months after being expelled over bribery charge

  • News source: FOX News
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A recently expelled D.C. Council member has won the seat from which he was removed five months ago after being charged with accepting cash bribes.

Trayon White is set to reclaim the seat he vacated back in February when members of the D.C. Council voted unanimously to remove him from the position, a first in the city's history.

In August 2024, the FBI arrested White after he was accused by federal authorities of agreeing to accept $156,000 in bribes. His trial is scheduled to begin in January 2026. White denies any wrongdoing and is pleading not...
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WATCH: Adam Schiff silent after Trump accused him of mortgage fraud

  • News source: FOX News
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Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California refused to answer repeated questions from Fox News Digital about his alleged mortgage fraud, which President Donald Trump has accused him of committing over 10 years.

The long-time Trump critic, who as a congressman was instrumental in the House of Representatives’ first and second impeachments during Trump’s first term, was accused by the president of committing fraud to obtain lower rates on a second home in Maryland.

Trump alleged that Schiff listed a Maryland property as his primary residence in 2009 to...
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Senate marches toward passing Trump's $9B clawback bill after dramatic late-night votes

  • News source: FOX News
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Late-night dramatics and surprise defections capped off the push to advance President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package through procedural hurdles, but now lawmakers are nearing the finish line.

Lawmakers cruised through hours of debate on Trump’s $9 billion rescissions package Wednesday morning and are now entering into another vote-a-rama, where both sides of the aisle can offer an unlimited number of amendments to the package.

At stake are clawbacks that would yank back congressionally approved funding for foreign aid programs...
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Trump says he discussed firing Fed chair but 'highly unlikely' he will

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The US president admitted he had broached sacking Jerome Powell but rowed back on removing him hours later.
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'Sparring in space' – BBC gains rare access to US base tracking global missile strikes

  • News source: BBC News - World
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From their base in Colorado, Space Force units track missiles fired anywhere in the world.
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Mother of daughter murdered by MS-13 gang member speaks out in favor of new bill

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: The mother of a young girl who was murdered by an MS-13 gang member in 2022 is speaking out after Congressman Russell Fry, R-South Carolina, introduced a bill that could have saved her daughter’s life.

Kayla Hamilton was just 20 years old when she was sexually assaulted, tied up, and strangled to death by Walter Javier Martinez, a 17-year-old illegal migrant in the U.S. under Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC) status who was sentenced to 70 years in prison this April.

This week, Rep. Fry introduced the Kayla Hamilton Act, which would...
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Japan calls axis of China, Russia, North Korea the 'gravest threat' to global order since WWII

  • News source: FOX News
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The joint operations between China and Russia combined with threats coming from North Korea pose the greatest threat to global order since World War II, Japan’s defense ministry said in a new document.

"The existing order of world peace is being seriously challenged, and Japan finds itself in the most severe and complex security environment of the post-war era," Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said in the annual document. "The international society is in a new crisis era as it faces the biggest challenges since the end of World War II."

The world’s...
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Congress considers permanent national park fee increase for international visitors

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump’s executive order increasing fees at National Parks for foreign tourists could soon be made permanent by a new bill led by Indiana Senator Jim Banks.

The Patriot Parks Act looks to address the U.S. National Park Service’s (NPS) $23 billion maintenance backlog that threatens repairs to visitor facilities, trails, roads, and NPS conservation needs.

"Americans already pay for our parks through federal taxes on top of standard admission fees, so it’s fair to ask foreign visitors to chip in more," Banks told Fox News...
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