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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Wednesday, March 31, 2021

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Biden kicks off effort to reshape U.S. economy with infrastructure package
(Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call for a dramatic and permanent shift in the direction of the U.S. economy with a roughly $2 trillion package to invest in traditional projects like roads and bridges alongside tackling climate change and boosting human services like elder care.

Updated today at 4:52 PM CDT

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Here's What's In President Biden's $2 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal
Eager to build infrastructure, Biden plans to tax business
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Delta blasts Georgia voting law as 'unacceptable,' based on 'lie'
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp dismisses corporate backlash over election law
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Five of the oddest moments from Carlson-Gaetz interview
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Texas Senate approves legislation banning most abortions, testing Roe v. Wade
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2 Capitol Police officers sue Trump for physical and emotional injuries from riot
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Russia escalates fighting in eastern Ukraine
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Biden infrastructure plan could be big boost for blue-collar America
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Trump calls Biden jobs plan 'massive giveaway to China,' says it will 'crush American workers'
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Biden's infrastructure plan met with skepticism from some lawmakers
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McConnell says Biden called him to discuss infrastructure plan
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GOP's culture-war fixation on transgender athletes...

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Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns

  • News source: Ken Dilanian | NBC News
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The Trump administration has decided to permit the sale of devices that enable standard firearms to fire like machine guns, a move that one person familiar with the matter said was “by far the most dangerous thing this administration has done” on gun policy.

The Justice Department on Friday announced a settlement in a lawsuit brought by the National Association for Gun Rights. The lawsuit challenged an ATF rule banning “forced reset triggers” — devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire rapid bursts of bullets.

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Audio of interview confirms Biden memory lapses

  • News source: Ken Dilanian | NBC News
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Newly released audio of a special counsel interviewing then-President Biden confirms memory lapses that White House officials denied at the time, including a president clearly struggling to remember the year his oldest son died.

Even after the transcript was released, Biden aides, including then White House spokesman Ian Sams, insisted that the president did not forget the year that his son, Beau, died of brain cancer The audio shows that Biden struggled to remember the year and had to be prompted by his lawyers, who were sitting in the interview...
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Mace delivers blistering impact statement, shakes hand of trans threat suspect’s father after bond is denied

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., praised a South Carolina judge Friday after bond was denied for the 19-year-old transgender activist accused of threatening to assassinate her. She also shook the hand of the suspect’s father.

Samuel Theodore Cain, who identifies as transgender and uses the name "Roxie Wolfe" online, was arrested May 15 by state agents for allegedly posting graphic threats targeting Mace and her children. Cain remains in custody, and a trial date has not been set.

The judge cited the seriousness of the threats during a hearing.

"Mr. Cain...
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Why Trump's budget plan is hitting resistance from his own party

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump's domestic policy bill hit a major snag after conservatives blocked it from advancing out of the House Budget Committee. Caitlin Huey-Burns reports and Marc Goldwein joins for analysis.
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Trump suggests his opinion of Taylor Swift has made her less popular

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump suggested Friday his swipe at Taylor Swift last year has hurt her popularity.

"Has anyone noticed that, since I said "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT," she's no longer "HOT?"," the president wrote in a Truth Social post Friday, as he flew back from the Middle East to the U.S. after the first major overseas trip of his second term.

A White House official told CBS News: "As a business and entertainment mogul President Trump is highly qualified to comment on the rise and fall of various celebrities," including Swift.

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Cassie at Diddy trial: I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Breaking down in sobs on the stand, Diddy's former girlfriend says the sex parties made her feel "worthless".
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Of opium, fire temples, and sarees: A peek into the world of India's dwindling Parsis

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Alpaiwala Museum in Mumbai city traces the origins and history of the fast-dwindling Parsi community.
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U.S. claim of state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is ‘inadequate,' judge says

  • News source: Michael Kunzelman and Ben Finley | The Associated
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A federal judge told the Trump administration Friday that its explanation for invoking the state secrets privilege in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is inadequate, describing the government’s reasoning for withholding information as “take my word for it.”

Trump administration attorneys have argued that releasing details in open court — or even to the judge in private – about returning Abrego Garcia to the United States would jeopardize national security. For example, they said it would reveal confidential negotiations with foreign countries.

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Biden struggles with words, key memories in leaked audio from Special Counsel Hur interview

  • News source: FOX News
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Leaked audio from former President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur showed the president struggling with key memories, including when his son Beau died and when he left the vice presidency.

The audio, obtained by Axios, was a clip from several interviews between the former president and Hur related to an investigation into his handling of classified documents.
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Moody's downgrades US credit rating citing rising debt

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Moody's said successive US administrations had failed to reverse ballooning deficits and interest costs.
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Eurovision final 2025: Catch up with the top five favourites

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Meet the five artists who are tipped to take the Eurovision trophy, as Saturday's final draws near.
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The poison paradox: How Australia's deadliest animals save lives

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The public antivenom programme saving lives in a place where, the joke goes, everything wants to kill you.
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Rushdie attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Sir Salman was on a New York lecture stage, when he was stabbed multiple times in the face and neck leaving him partially blinded.
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Trump's frantic week of peace brokering hints at what he really wants

  • News source: BBC News - World
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After seven breathless days of diplomatic hurly burly, we have a clearer idea of the US president's global ideology - and the limits of his 'art of a deal'.
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DHS open to Duck Dynasty producer's pitch for immigrant-based reality show: 'Happy to review'

  • News source: FOX News
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering working with the producer of ‘
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