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Today's Political News Compilation - Monday, April 15, 2024

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Trump’s historic hush-money trial gets underway; 1st day ends without any jurors being picked

The historic hush-money trial of Donald Trump got underway Monday with the arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records in order to stifle stories about his sex life.




























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Melania Trump Avoids Hush-Money Trial but Shares Her Husband’s Anger

  • News source: Katie Rogers
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In January 2018, when she first saw reports that her husband had paid off a porn star, Melania Trump was furious. She jetted off to Palm Beach, leaving the president to languish in Washington. She eventually returned, only to take a separate car to Donald J. Trump’s first State of the Union address.

As a criminal trial against Mr. Trump opened on Monday, on charges that he had falsified records to cover up that sex scandal involving Stormy Daniels, Mrs. Trump did not appear. She has long privately referred to the case involving Ms. Daniels as “his...
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Police told to shut down right-wing Brussels conference

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Attendees are not being allowed into the National Conservatism Conference after authorities ordered it to close.
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First product of Meghan's lifestyle brand revealed

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The jars of strawberry jam, labelled America Riviera Orchard, have been shared with friends and influencers.
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Former Marine jailed for bombing abortion clinic

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Chance Brannon is jailed for nine years for California attack and plot to spark a neo-Nazi "race war".
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Nasa says part of International Space Station hit Florida home

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The 0.7kg metal object tore through man's roof after re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
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Bowen: Iran's attack on Israel offers Netanyahu a lifeline

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Gaza is out of the headlines, but the pressure on Israel's PM has changed rather than disappeared.
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GOP lawmaker demands action from Japan PM on key issue impacting hundreds of US children abroad

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: A Republican congressman has personally delivered a letter to Japan’s prime minister urging him to take action in order to address the issue of hundreds of American children being abducted and held in Japan by parents who took the children from the other parent without their consent.

"As our two countries continue to take steps to strengthen our democratic, economic and security ties, I would like to draw your attention to an open wound that threatens to derail many ongoing efforts," GOP Rep. Chris Smith wrote in a letter that he...
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Massie threatens to oust Speaker Johnson if he doesn’t step down over foreign aid plan

  • News source: FOX News
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is facing renewed motion to vacate threats a day after he introduced a plan to pass foreign aid.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., threatened to force a vote to oust the speaker during remarks in House Republicans’ closed-door conference meeting on Tuesday morning, if the speaker did not willingly step aside first.

"I asked him to resign…he said he would not," Massie told reporters after the meeting. "And I said, well, you're the one who's going to put us into this because the motion is going to get called, OK? The motion will...
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Senate Dems reveal massive $79M ad spend to protect majority ahead of key match ups

  • News source: FOX News
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Senate Democrats' campaign arm is sparing no expense in its bid to keep the upper chamber's majority in November, announcing a whopping $79 million ad plan across a number of battleground states and desired pick up opportunities.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is set to spend the multimillion-dollar sum on television, digital and radio advertising in several close Senate races and a handful of matches they are hoping to make competitive as they look to prevent the GOP from taking over in 2025, a committee aide said. Advertising...
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Trump kicks off day two of hush money trial directing ire at 'conflicted' judge: 'Trump-hating'

  • News source: FOX News
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Former President Donald Trump began the second day of the hush money trial in New York City railing against the case and its "conflicted" judge, whom the 45th president called a "Trump-hating judge."

"We have a Trump-hating judge. We have a judge who shouldn't be on this case. He's totally conflicted. But this is a trial that should never happen. It should have been thrown out a long time ago," Trump said Tuesday before heading into the courtroom, referring to Judge Juan Merchan.

"It's a trial that is being looked upon and looked at all over the world. … They're looking at, analyzing it. Every legal pundit, every legal scholar said this trial is a disgrace," he added.

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Jury selection continues in former President Donald Trump's historic "hush money" trial

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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No jurors were selected on the first day of former President Donald Trump’s "hush money" trial. Out of the first batch of 96 prospective jurors who were sworn in and questioned, more than half were excused, many after saying they could not be fair and impartial.
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Trump's New York trial continues amid Supreme Court deliberations

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Donald Trump's criminal trial enters its second day in New York as he faces 34 felony charges. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments over whether to throw out a charge filed against Trump and hundreds of defendants from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Prosecutions Tied to Jan. 6 Have Ensnared More Than 1,380

  • News source: Alan Feuer
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The investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack is already the largest criminal inquiry in Justice Department history, federal prosecutors have said. And even after more than three years, it has shown little sign of slowing down.

Every week, a few more rioters are arrested and charges against them are unsealed in Federal District Court in Washington. Prosecutors have suggested that a total of 2,000 or 2,500 people could ultimately face indictment for their roles in the attack.

More than 1,380 people had been charged in connection with the...
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Iranians on edge as leaders say 'Tel Aviv is our battleground'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The authorities defend attacking Israel, but not all Iranians see it that way.
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'Colossal' floods heading for Russian city

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The regional governor of Kurgan says water levels are nearly double those of the last major flood in 1994.
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