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Today's Top Political News Compilation - Thursday, August 10, 2023

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Targeting DeSantis, Trump team warns state parties that super PACs can’t act as an arm of a campaign

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign is seeking to blunt the efforts of a super PAC supporting rival Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign by sending a letter to all state Republican parties on Thursday arguing that they cannot work with a super PAC as if it is representing a candidate.



























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‘Don’t Inject Bleach’: Biden Mocks Trump on Anniversary of Covid Comments

  • News source: Zolan Kanno-Youngs
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Four years ago this week, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans might want to inject disinfectant into their bodies to treat the coronavirus.

The Biden campaign is intent on making sure nobody forgets it.

On Air Force One, on social media and from the presidential lectern, President Biden has homed in on the infamous moment — one that crystallized the chaos of the Trump presidency — as he trolls his political opponent.

“Remember when he was trying to deal with Covid, he said just inject a little bleach in your veins?” Mr. Biden said...
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Donald M. Payne Jr., Five-Term New Jersey Representative, Dies at 65

  • News source: Sam Roberts
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Representative Donald M. Payne Jr., a five-term Democrat from Newark who succeeded his father, New Jersey’s first Black member of Congress, died on Wednesday in Newark. He was 65.

He had been hospitalized in Newark and unconscious since April 6, when he sustained a heart attack resulting from complications of diabetes, according to his office. His death was announced by Gov. Phil Murphy.

In 1988, Donald Payne Sr. fulfilled a dream he had publicly proclaimed 14 years earlier: being elected to the House as the first Black member of his state’s...
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Supreme Court Case on Idaho’s Abortion Ban Reveals Language Debate

  • News source: Kate Zernike
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On its face, the case argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday was about whether doctors in Idaho have the obligation to provide abortions to women facing emergency risks to their lives.

But a difference in word choice by the justices and the lawyers revealed a more fundamental debate, one that goes straight to the ultimate goal of the anti-abortion movement.

The lawyer for Idaho and the conservative justices including Samuel A. Alito Jr., who wrote the majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, employed the term “unborn child,” a term used in...
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US Speaker calls on Columbia president to resign

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Protests against the war in Gaza are being held on college campuses across the US.
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Top Russian defence official accused of taking bribes

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov is remanded in custody in a rare case against a high-ranking official.
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White House vows to not be quiet on violent protests: 'Silent is complicit'

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White House officials addressed the anti-Israel protests taking place at universities across the country on Wednesday, saying President Biden believes in free speech, but when violent rhetoric and physical intimidation takes place, it must be called out.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked by a reporter during a briefing on Wednesday what the president thinks of how the administration at Columbia University in New York City has been handling the protests.

Jean-Pierre directed questions about personnel to university officials...
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Johnson says calling National Guard on Columbia protests would be 'appropriate' if threats 'not stopped'

  • News source: FOX News
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is suggesting the National Guard should soon be called in to quell the Gaza ceasefire protests at Columbia University if they don't peter out themselves.

Johnson and several House Republicans visited the New York City Ivy League school on Wednesday as tensions there escalate over demonstrations that have had several Jewish students speak out publicly about fear for their safety. Columbia University students and those attending its sister school, Barnard College, have set up a tent city on campus in protest of Columbia's...
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Vulnerable Dem senator ripped for ignoring questions about Biden's push to 'ban' gas-powered cars

  • News source: FOX News
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Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown faced immediate backlash Tuesday after video circulated of him refusing to answer a question about whether he supports the Biden administration’s push to "ban" gas-powered cars.

"Senator Brown, do you think that gas cars should be banned," Brown was asked while walking down the street in Washington, D.C. in a video posted online.

After Brown didn’t answer and kept walking, he was asked if he "supports the EPA’s decision to ban gas cars?"

Brown again declined to answer before he was asked a third time a "yes or...
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Dad 1st charged under state's safe gun storage law after son shoots himself

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A Michigan dad was charged with violating the state's safe gun storage law after his son allegedly got a hold of his firearm and shot himself, investigators said.
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WATCH: New video of American hostage in Gaza released by Hamas

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Hersh Goldberg-Pollin had been held captive by Hamas for 201 days after being captured during the Oct. 7 attack.
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What witnesses said about Trump's handling of classified info while president

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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In interviews with the special counsel, former aides and advisers to Donald Trump described his "cavalier" handling of classified documents while in office, sources say.
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Johnson Calls to End Pro-Palestinian Protests, Including by Military Means

  • News source: Annie Karni
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Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said he intended to call President Biden and demand that he take action, including potentially sending in the National Guard, to quell pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University that he said had grown violent and antisemitic.

“There is executive authority that would be appropriate,” Mr. Johnson said during a news conference on the steps of Low Library, where he was booed and heckled by some onlookers. “If these threats are not stopped, there is an appropriate time for the National Guard. We have to bring order...
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Prosecutor Says Sept. 11 Suspects Can Be Held Past War Crimes Sentence

  • News source: Carol Rosenberg
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Regardless of the outcome of their someday trial, the men accused of plotting the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, can be held forever as prisoners in the war against terrorism in a form of preventive detention, a military prosecutor told the presiding judge on Wednesday.

Defense lawyers were asking the judge to rule that, if convicted, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, one of the suspects in plotting the attack, would have any sentence to a term of confinement reduced by the number of days he was held by the United States before trial. He has been held since 2003...
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Supreme Court Arguments on Idaho’s Abortion Ban: 5 Takeaways

  • News source: Pam Belluck
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The abortion case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday featured vigorous questioning and comments, particularly by the three liberal justices. At issue is whether Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion is so strict that it violates a federal law requiring emergency care for any patient, including providing abortions for pregnant women in dire situations.

A ruling could reverberate beyond Idaho, to at least half a dozen other states that have similarly restrictive bans.

The implications of the case could also extend beyond abortion, including whether...
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USDA announces changes to school meals: What to know

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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