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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Saturday, May 21, 2022

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Biden signs $40B Ukraine aid package into law
President Biden has signed into law a far-reaching aid package for Ukraine that will provide $40 billion in security, humanitarian and economic assistance for the country as it battles the Russian war over the coming months.



























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Gaza hostage urged to 'stay strong' after new video

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Hamas issues a proof-of-life video of US-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, abducted on 7 October.
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Blinken tackles a tough China visit. Will it help?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Blinken's trip is a sign of improved US-China ties, but it's a relationship that still crackles with tension.
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US jails Chinese man who threatened student activist

  • News source: BBC News - World
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He threatened to "chop off" the hands of a Chinese student who put up pro-democracy fliers on campus.
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Free beer and taxi rides to woo voters in Indian city

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Many companies in Bengaluru city have found innovative ways to encourage people to vote.
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Arizona House votes to overturn abortion ban

  • News source: BBC News - World
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It was the third attempt to take up repealing the near-total ban, which was recently resurrected by a state court.
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BBC Verify examines reported strikes on Russian oil depots

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The reported strikes have been geolocated to the Smolensk region of western Russia.
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Russia vetoes UN vote on stopping space arms race

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The US has previously warned that Russia is trying to develop a space-based, anti-satellite weapon.
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US jails Chinese man who threatened student activist

  • News source: BBC News - World
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He threatened to "chop off" the hands of a Chinese student who put up pro-democracy fliers on campus.
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Iranian rapper sentenced to death, says lawyer

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Musician Toomaj Salehi had backed anti-government nationwide protests in 2022.
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Searching for missing loved ones in Gaza’s mass graves

  • News source: BBC News - World
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In this war, it is a huge challenge to find out how people whose bodies were exhumed at Nasser hospital died.
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Blinken tackles a tough China visit. Will it help?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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  • Views: 3
Blinken's trip is a sign of improved US-China ties, but it's a relationship that still crackles with tension.
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Antony Blinken Visits China

  • News source: Ana Swanson
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken cheered on the sidelines at a basketball game in Shanghai on Wednesday night, and spent Thursday chatting with students at New York University’s Shanghai campus and meeting American business owners. It all went to emphasize the kind of economic, educational and cultural ties that the United States is pointedly holding up as beneficial for both countries.

But hanging over those pleasantries during his visit to China this week are several steps the U.S. is taking to sever economic ties in areas where the Biden...
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US Supreme Court to decide if Trump has immunity

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The top court will hear arguments on Thursday in a case that could redefine presidential power.
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Trump Compares Campus Protests to Violent White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville

  • News source: Chris Cameron
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Former President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday played down the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 while portraying a recent wave of vocal but predominantly peaceful pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses as “riots.”

One woman was killed and nearly 40 people were injured when an avowed neo-Nazi plowed his car through a crowd of counterprotesters during violent clashes in Charlottesville. Earlier, hundreds of white supremacists had marched through the city, carrying torches and chanting, “Jews will not replace...
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18 indicted in alleged 2020 fake Arizona elector scheme

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 people Wednesday in the ongoing investigation into an alleged attempt to use alternate electors after the 2020 presidential election as part of a wider alleged conspiracy to falsely declare then-President Donald Trump the winner, the state's attorney general announced.

The alleged fake electors and defendants named in the indictment were Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten and Michael Ward.

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