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Today's Top News Compilation - Monday, May 4, 2020

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Trump set to meet with Netanyahu at the White House

  • News source: Dareh Gregorian | NBC News
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President Donald Trump will meet Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — the first foreign leader to meet with him since he started his second term.

Speaking with reporters Sunday, Trump previewed the discussion at the White House as a "very big meeting." In his letter inviting Netanyahu to Washington last week, he wrote, “I look forward to discussing how we can bring peace to Israel and its neighbors, and efforts to counter our shared adversaries.”

Netanyahu said Sunday that they will discuss "the critical issues that lie ahead of...
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Rubio says El Salvador has made "extraordinary" offer to U.S on deportees

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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San Salvador, El Salvador — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador's president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.

President Nayib Bukele "has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world," Rubio said after meeting with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours.

"We can send them and he will put them in his jails," Rubio...
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Man and his dog found stabbed to death in basement after 2nd break in of the day

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A 52-year-old man and his dog have been stabbed to death in their own basement after an alleged intruder broke into their home, police said.
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New York Gov. Hochul signs law protecting abortion pill prescribers after doctor indicted in Louisiana

  • News source: FOX News
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed a bill Monday aimed at shielding the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion drugs after a New York physician was indicted for prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana.

The new law, which is effective immediately, allows for doctors' names to be omitted from abortion pill bottles and instead replaced with the name of their respective healthcare practices.

This comes after a grand jury in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, indicted New York physician Margaret Carpenter, her...
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Tulsi Gabbard confirmation fate to be tested with key committee vote

  • News source: FOX News
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Tulsi Gabbard is set to test her odds of Senate confirmation on Tuesday as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence considers her nomination by President Donald Trump.

Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman who has been tapped as the nominee for director of national intelligence (DNI), went before the committee last week. During her confirmation hearing, she was pressed about her past meeting with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, her previous FISA Section 702 stance and her past support for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

She...
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RFK Jr. to face key committee vote that could determine confirmation fate

  • News source: FOX News
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will face a pivotal test on Tuesday morning as the Senate Finance Committee votes on his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

At 10 a.m., the committee will meet to consider President Donald Trump's HHS pick, following his hearing last week.

The 27-member committee is composed of 14 Republican members and 13 Democrats. Kennedy will need a majority of the votes in order to advance out of the committee.

RFK JR SPENT WEEKEND TALKING TO KEY SENATOR WHO COULD MAKE OR BREAK HIS CONFIRMATION

He...
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Who won and lost as Trump's trade war is delayed - for now

  • News source: BBC News - World
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BBC reporters in the US, Canada and Mexico assess the fallout after Trump gets border promises in return for a 30-day pause on tariffs.
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Devastation from Queensland floods 'incredible', premier says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Thousands of people have begun returning home to assess damage to their properties and businesses.
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Pro-Russia paramilitary leader killed in Moscow blast

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Armen Sargsyan, the leader of a paramilitary unit wanted by Ukraine, died from his injuries following an explosion on Monday morning.
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China enacts counter tariffs on numerous U.S. products

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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China's Ministry of Commerce announced Tuesday it was implementing counter tariffs against the U.S. on multiple products and taking other trade-related steps, including an antitrust investigation into Google.

The moves came as 10% U.S. tariffs on numerous Chinese goods were to take effect.

Mr. Trump paused his plans Monday to implement steep tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for at least a month after talks with the leaders of both countries, who vowed to step up efforts to combat the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders with the...
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El Salvador offers to take in US criminals and migrants

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israeli hostage's family demand answers over fate of his wife and children

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Israeli government is responsible for bringing home Yarden Bibas' wife and sons, his sister-in-law said.
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China hits back at 10% U.S. tariff with its own levies on U.S. products

  • News source: Jennifer Jett and Peter Guo | NBC News
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China retaliated immediately on Tuesday as a 10% U.S. tariff on Chinese goods went into effect, announcing its own levies of 10% to 15% on some U.S. products.

Starting Feb. 10, China will impose an additional tariff of 15% on coal and liquefied natural gas, and a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery, large-displacement automobiles and pickup trucks, the government said.

The Chinese announcement came minutes after the U.S. tariff took effect at 12:01 a.m. ET. The failure to forestall tit-for-tat tariffs raises the risk of a spiraling...
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Political uncertainty remains as Trump strikes temporary tariff deals

  • News source: Matt Dixon | NBC News
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The impacts of Donald Trump’s long-promised pledge to use tariffs as a political cudgel started to come into focus Monday, even as the president cut last-minute deals with some of the country’s closest allies allowing him to back down from his initial threats.

On Saturday, Trump announced that he would slap broad 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, both U.S. allies, and 10% tariffs on China, a political foe. The move was expected, but it still sparked fears about the rising costs of goods across the U.S. economy.

That concern is particularly potent...
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Ex-USAID official says potential closure is 'extinction-level event' for global aid

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke to Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International and a former lead official at USAID, about efforts to shutter the global aid agency.
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