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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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11 indicted in Arizona 2020 election probe

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Arizona becomes the fourth state to file criminal charges against the so-called "fake electors" who sought to pledge electoral votes for Donald Trump.
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Supreme Court hears arguments on Idaho abortion ban

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday listened to arguments over whether Idaho's near-total abortion ban violates a federal law that requires hospitals that participate in Medicare to provide necessary stabilizing treatment, including emergency abortion care. Jan Crawford reports.
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After $15 Billion in Military Aid, Israel Calls Alliance With U.S. ‘Ironclad’

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Israel welcomed a U.S. aid package signed by President Biden on Wednesday that will send about $15 billion in military aid to Israel, increasing American support for its closest Middle East ally despite strains in their relationship over Israel’s prosecution of the war in the Gaza Strip.

“Our alliance is ironclad,” Israel Katz, the country’s foreign minister, said in a statement thanking Mr. Biden for signing the legislation. It was part of a long-stalled $95.3 billion in aid that had faced vehement opposition from some Republicans over its support...
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Trump Respects Women, Most Men Say

  • News source: Jess Bidgood
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This month, The New York Times/Siena College poll asked voters how much they think former President Trump respects women: a lot, some, not much or not at all?

You’ll never guess what happened next!

A majority of men — 54 percent — said that Trump respects women either “a lot” or “some.” Just 31 percent of women saw things that way.

Trump, a man known for bragging about grabbing women’s private parts — and on trial in connection with the cover-up of a sex scandal involving a porn star — has long symbolized a kind of machismo that to many people...
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WATCH: Full 'pink moon' revealed in timelapse footage

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A stunning timelapse shows April's vivid, full "pink moon" rising into the night sky over Kent Island, Maryland.
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House Dem who called for Trump's arrest sympathetic to scandalous sibling

  • News source: FOX News
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Biden makes sign of the cross during pro-abortion speech in Florida

  • News source: FOX News
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President Biden made the sign of the cross, a gesture Catholics often make before and after prayer, while listening to pro-abortion comments by a fellow Democrat in Florida.

The president's actions came Tuesday as Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, the state's former Democratic gubernatorial nominee, blasted an upcoming law restricting abortion to within six weeks of gestation. Biden was heavily criticized in response to the move, which several Catholic groups and commentators described as sacrilegious given the Catholic Church's strict...
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Florida man charged with murdering girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The longtime boyfriend of a central Florida mother whose teenage daughter was reported missing in February has been charged with the 13-year-old girl’s murder
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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'

  • News source: FOX News
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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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