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Today's Top Political News Compilation - Tuesday, September 5, 2023

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Jury selection begins in contempt case against ex-Trump White House official Peter Navarro

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection began Tuesday in the case against former Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who was charged with contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.


























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Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The government says a specialist team is looking into the death of the well-known influencer.
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Biden says he's ready for election debate with Trump

  • News source: BBC News - World
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US President says he is "happy" to face rival who claims he is ready "anytime, anywhere, anyplace".
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Biden Administration Restores Health Protections for Gay and Transgender People

  • News source: Noah Weiland
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The Biden administration announced expansive new protections on Friday for gay and transgender medical patients, prohibiting federally funded health providers and insurers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

The new rule reverses a policy instituted by the Trump administration and helps to fulfill part of President Biden’s vow to restore civil rights protections for L.G.B.T.Q. people that were eliminated by his predecessor.

“Today’s rule is a giant step forward for this country toward a more equitable and...
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Stock shorters have made millions betting against Trump Media: ‘A lot of his businesses go belly up'

  • News source: Bernard Condon | Associated Press
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Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable.

Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive buying by Trump loyalists and wild swings that often mirror the candidate’s latest polls, court trials and outbursts on Truth Social itself.

Several of these investors interviewed by The Associated Press say their bearish gambles using...
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Sheriff's deputies fatally shoot driver while serving a high-risk drug warrant in Memphis

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Officials say sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a man who sped toward them in a vehicle as they were serving a search warrant in a neighborhood on Friday in Memphis, Tennessee
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1 climber dead, another seriously hurt after 1,000-foot fall on Alaska peak

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Authorities say a climber is dead and another seriously injured after falling about 1,000 feet while on a steep, technical route on Mount Johnson in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve
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Here are all the gag order violations Trump is accused of making

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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As Trump awaits a ruling on whether he will be held in contempt for violating a gag order, prosecutors on Thursday accused him of making four more violations.
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Columbia University’s policy-making senate votes for resolution calling to investigate school’s leadership

  • News source: FOX News
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G.O.P. Asks Secret Service to Move Protesters Away From Convention Venue

  • News source: Chris Cameron
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The Republican Party sent a letter to the Secret Service on Friday urging the police agency to keep protesters farther away from the venue for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July.

The three-page letter, signed by Todd R. Steggerda, counsel to the Republican National Committee, objected to the placement of an area where protesters would be allowed to demonstrate. Mr. Steggerda argued that convention attendees would be forced to pass by the protesters on their way into the venue, raising the potential for confrontations.

“As...
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Regulators close Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank, first US bank failure this year

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Regulators have closed Republic First Bank, a regional lender operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York
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Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a month

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Officials in Canada say a young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island has gotten past a bottleneck at high tide, reaching an inlet that could take it to the open sea
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NFL to allow players to wear protective soft-shell helmet covers during games

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The NFL says it will allow players to wear protective soft-shell helmet covers known as Guardian caps during games next season if they choose
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Retired pro wrestler, failed congressional candidate indicted in Vegas murder case

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A retired professional wrestler who failed in bids for Congress from Nevada and Texas has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of an Idaho man during a Halloween Party last year at a Las Vegas Strip hotel
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St. Louis' toxic sites need faster cleanup, lawmakers and residents say

  • News source: FOX News
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Kansas won't have legal medical pot or expand Medicaid for at least another year

  • News source: FOX News
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Kansas will remain among the handful of states that haven't legalized the medical use of marijuana or expanded their Medicaid programs for at least another year.

Republican state senators on Friday blocked efforts to force debates on both issues before the GOP-controlled Legislature's scheduled adjournment for the year Tuesday. Supporters of each measure fell short of the 24 of 40 votes required to pull a bill on each subject out of committee.

KANSAS GOVERNOR VETOES BILL BANNING TRANSGENDER TREATMENT TO MINORS, ABORTION RESTRICTIONS

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