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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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Expanded so-called 'Don't Say Gay' education restrictions advance in Alabama

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Alabama is on track to further restrict discussions of "gender identity or sexual orientation" in public schools in a new proposal of the so-called "Don't So Gay" law.
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College encampments grow nationwide: What students are saying

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Protests calling for the divestment from Israeli military operations have continued to spread on college campuses throughout the country.
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New California rule aims to limit health care cost increases to 3% annually

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A new rule in California aims to limit health care price increases to just 3% each year
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Chinese student given 9-month prison sentence for harassing person posting democracy leaflets

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The U.S. Attorney's office says a Chinese former student at Boston's Berklee College of Music has been sentenced to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country
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Australia and New Zealand honor their war dead with dawn services on Anzac Day

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day
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Indigenous group detains 12 alleged gold miners in Amazon and hands them over to Brazilian police

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An Indigenous group in Brazil says its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining illegally in the Amazon and handed them over to police
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College protests live updates: USC closes main campus to public

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza.
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The Italian film which beat Barbie at the box office

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Director Paola Cortellesi on the cry for change in Italy's chart-topping There's Still Tomorrow.
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Russia or EU? Controversial bill draws Georgians onto streets

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Thousands of Georgians have been protesting against a new bill that they claim will crush dissent.
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The batting blitz turning cricket into baseball

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Indian Premier League batters are fearlessly unleashing big shots, every match a six-hitting spectacle.
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New poll reveals how voters' views on abortion have changed as Dems seek to make issue a central 2024 theme

  • News source: FOX News
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A new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday revealed information about Americans' views on abortion that could surprise voters as the November election draws nearer.

The poll comes as Democrats seek to make abortion a central issue this election year, hoping it will drive turnout across the country in their favor as they seek to win control of the House of Representatives and hold the Senate and the White House.

According to the poll, a record number of Americans (66%) now support legal abortion in some or all cases, the highest level of...
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Secret Service agent assigned to Kamala Harris exhibits "distressing behavior"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris exhibited "distressing behavior" Monday morning at Joint Base Andrews and was hospitalized, authorities said. Harris was not present at the airbase at the time.

In a statement provided to CBS News, the U.S. Secret Service said that at about 9 a.m. local time Monday, the agent "began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing. The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were summoned."

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Arizona state House passes bill to repeal 1864 abortion ban

  • News source: Adam Edelman and Alex Tabet | NBC News
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On their third attempt in three weeks, Arizona state House lawmakers voted Wednesday to pass a bill that would repeal the near-total ban on abortion from 1864 that was upheld by the battleground state’s Supreme Court earlier this month.

After a dizzying course of votes throughout the afternoon, three state House Republicans joined Democrats in approving a repeal of the Civil War-era law that made abortion a felony punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performs one or helps a woman obtain one.

Members of the state Senate, where...
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Arizona grand jury indicts 11 Republicans who falsely declared Trump won the state in 2020

  • News source: Jacques Billeaud and Josh Kelety | Associated
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Eleven Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election were charged Wednesday with conspiracy, fraud and forgery, marking the fourth state to bring charges against “fake electors.”

The 11 people who had been nominated to be Arizona’s Republican electors met in Phoenix on Dec. 14, 2020, to sign a certificate saying they were “duly elected and qualified” electors and claiming that Trump carried the state. A one-minute video of the signing ceremony was...
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US secretly sends long-range missiles to Ukraine

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Missiles delivered this month have been used to strike Russian targets in Crimea, US media say.
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