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Today's Political News Compilation - Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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Tabloid publisher says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race

NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran tabloid publisher testified Tuesday that he pledged to be Donald Trump ‘s “eyes and ears” during his 2016 presidential campaign, recounting how he promised the then-candidate that he would help suppress harmful stories and even arranged to purchase a doorman’s silence.




























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Supreme Court weighs scope of Idaho abortion ban in first post-Roe test

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The Supreme Court will decide whether a federal law governing emergency care protects hospital access to abortion when a woman’s health is at risk.
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Watch Live: Biden to speak about foreign aid bill passed by Congress

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — President Biden is set to speak from the White House about a long-sought foreign aid package that provides assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, along with a measure that could lead to a ban on TikTok.

The Senate passed the package in a bipartisan vote Tuesday evening, and the president has said he will sign it. The Pentagon plans to send a roughly $1 billion weapons package to Ukraine once it's signed into law, U.S. officials said earlier in the week.

The White House first sought the foreign aid more than six months ago, kicking...
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Biden grants clemency to 16 nonviolent drug offenders

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — President Biden on Wednesday granted clemency to 16 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, pardoning 11 of them and commuting the sentences of the other five.

The pardon recipients include a woman who has since earned her doctorate, a business owner and community members involved in their churches, while one of the commutation recipients will no longer have to serve a life prison sentence.

In December, the president granted categorical pardons to thousands convicted of use and simple possession of marijuana in Washington...
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Homeless Voters in Georgia Could Face New Hurdles Under New Law

  • News source: Nick Corasaniti
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After more than 40 years of struggling with drug addiction and homelessness, Barry Dupree has a distinct memory of a milestone in his recovery: casting a ballot in the 2020 election.

“I felt like a human being, I felt like I was part of the world,” Mr. Dupree, 64, said. He had gotten sober and found shelter at Gateway Center in Fulton County. “I felt as though my word was listened to, my suggestion of who I wanted was heard.”

There are thousands of voters like Mr. Dupree across Georgia and the country, those experiencing homelessness who are able...
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‘Oh, Mary!,’ a Surprise Downtown Hit, Will Play Broadway This Summer

  • News source: Michael Paulson
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“Oh, Mary!,” an outrageously madcap comedy that imagines the former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as an oft-inebriated chanteuse-wannabe, will transfer to Broadway this summer after becoming a surprise hit downtown.

The show, which is gleefully tasteless and also ahistorical, is the brainchild of Cole Escola, an alt-cabaret performer who built a cult following with a series of YouTube sketches and reached a wider audience with a role on Hulu’s “Difficult People.”

The Broadway run is scheduled to begin previews June 26 and to open July 11 at the...
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‘Thunder Run’: Behind Lawmakers’ Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill

  • News source: Sapna Maheshwari, David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
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Just over a year ago, lawmakers displayed a rare show of bipartisanship when they grilled Shou Chew, TikTok’s chief executive, about the video app’s ties to China. Their harsh questioning suggested that Washington was gearing up to force the company to sever ties with its Chinese owner — or even ban the app.

Then came mostly silence. Little emerged from the House committee that held the hearing, and a proposal to enable the administration to force a sale or ban TikTok fizzled in the Senate.

But behind the scenes, a tiny group of lawmakers began...
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Traces of H5N1 bird flu virus found in some milk, pasteurized dairy: FDA

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Chip Roy raises alarms about George Soros' purchase of radio giant Audacy

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Chip Roy is accusing liberal billionaire George Soros of trying to fast-track his acquisition of a major radio company through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

"I write today regarding Soros Fund Management’s acquisition of over $400 million in debt held by Audacy — the second-largest broadcast radio station owner in the country. Of particular concern, the Soros groups are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve a change in ownership in Audacy without the FCC running its normal, statutorily...
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Supreme Court set to hear arguments over emergency room abortion access in states' rights challenge

  • News source: FOX News
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The contentious issue of abortion has returned to the Supreme Court, with the justices prepared on Wednesday to weigh a states' rights challenge over hospital emergency room access to the procedure.

In scheduled morning oral arguments, the high court will confront whether state abortion restrictions are invalidated by a federal law.

Idaho officials say hospitals cannot be forced by the Biden administration to perform abortions in potentially emergency situations – even if the state has a near total ban on the procedure – with an exception only to...
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Newsom ignoring California crises to promote himself in pro-abortion campaign, GOP lawmakers say

  • News source: FOX News
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Republican lawmakers torched Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for his national pro-abortion campaign on Monday while California faces several crises they say demand his attention.

"It's certainly frustrating that Gov. Newsom is focusing all his attention on other states besides California," Assemblyman Vince Fong, vice chair of the state's budget committee, told Fox News Digital. "California is in crisis."

Fong, who has been sounding the alarm on the state's $73 billion budget deficit for years, said the legislature and Newsom refuse to "address the...
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Woman is 1st patient to undergo combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant

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In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.
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USDA updates rules for school meals that limit added sugars for the first time

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U.S. agriculture officials announced new nutrition standards for school meals that will limit added sugars for the first time
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Surging auto insurance rates squeeze drivers, fuel inflation

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Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation
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Supreme Court to weigh Trump immunity claim over 2020 election prosecution

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — The Supreme Court is set to consider Thursday whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to sweeping immunity from federal prosecution for conduct that occurred while he was in the White House, thrusting the justices into election-year politics in a historic case with significant ramifications for his legal and political future.

Known as Trump v. U.S., the dispute is the second this term in which the nation's highest court will step into a legal battle that presents a question it has never confronted before, and one with...
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Here’s the latest on the argument.

  • News source: NYT > Politics
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The case, which could reverberate beyond Idaho to other states with abortion bans, is the second time in less than a month that the justices have heard an abortion case.
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