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Today's Political News Compilation - Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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Biden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion war aid measure into law

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he was immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine as he signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also included assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other global hot spots. The announcement marked an end to the long, painful battle with Republicans in Congress over urgently needed assistance for Ukraine, with Biden promising that U.S. weapons shipment would begin making the way into Ukraine “in the next few hours.”

























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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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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.

Hoffman...
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Arizona indicts Trump allies over fake elector scheme

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Former Trump advisers Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those charged, court documents show.
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Orange Sahara dust haze descends over Athens

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Greek capital was covered in a haze of dust which has blown from the Sahara desert.
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Mining giant BHP proposes buyout of Anglo American

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The UK-based mining giant Anglo American says it has received a takeover proposal from Australia's BHP.
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Secret Service agent on VP Harris' detail removed from assignment after physical fight while on duty

  • News source: FOX News
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Meta shares sink after it reveals spending plans

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The firm said expenses would be higher this year as it spends heavily on artificial intelligence.
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Conn. Gov. Ned Lamont had thousands of trees, bushes ‘illegally’ cut behind $7.5M home

  • News source: FOX News
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Hypocrisy’s the root of the problem.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont had thousands of trees and bushes illegally chopped behind his sprawling Greenwich home — despite publicly championing a statewide effort to plant more conifers, according to angry neighbors and other sources.

The wealthy 70-year-old Democrat was hit with a citation for cutting down more than 180 trees in a protected wetland area to allegedly get a better view of a pond from his $7.6 million abode, CT Insider reported Tuesday.

"[It’s a] chainsaw massacre," land use attorney John...
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