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Today's Political News Compilation - Wednesday, April 17, 2024

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Senate rejects impeachment articles against Mayorkas, ending trial against Cabinet secretary

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate dismissed all impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, ending the House Republican push to remove the Cabinet secretary from office over his handling of the the U.S.-Mexico border and shutting down his trial before arguments even began.





























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Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Band singer, songwriter and guitarist, dead at 80

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Supreme Court to weigh bans targeting homeless encampments

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday will weigh arguments in a case involving the homeless and bans on where they may sleep, the most significant one on the issue in decades.

The dispute involves whether laws that punish homeless people with civil citations for camping on public property are outside the bounds of the Constitution. Cities have been searching for ways to address homeless encampments that they say threaten public health and safety, as the nation confronts a spike in homelessness driven in part by high housing costs and the end of...
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Chinese Exports Are Threatening Biden’s Industrial Agenda

  • News source: Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport
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President Biden’s trillion-dollar effort to invigorate American manufacturing and speed a transition to cleaner energy sources is colliding with a surge of cheap exports from China, threatening to wipe out the investment and jobs that are central to Mr. Biden’s economic agenda.

Mr. Biden is weighing new measures to protect nascent industries like electric-vehicle production and solar-panel manufacturing from Chinese competition. On Wednesday in Pittsburgh, the president called for higher tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum products and announced a...
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Google sacks staff protesting over Israeli contract

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Google sacked 28 staff members for taking part in protests against a contract with the Israeli government.
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Paris Olympics opening ceremony on river Seine will last nearly 4 hours

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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With sunset and moonlight gleaming on the river, the grandiose opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics will last nearly four hours
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This ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Researchers in India have found fossils of an ancient giant snake that could have been longer than a school bus
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Former Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Peter Barca launches congressional comeback bid

  • News source: FOX News
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A Democrat who represented southeast Wisconsin in Congress in the 1990s before going on to become a leader in the Assembly and state revenue secretary announced Thursday that he's running for Congress again.

Peter Barca announced his bid against Republican U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, who is seeking a fourth term. Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District, previously represented by former House Speaker Paul Ryan, leans Republican but was made more competitive under new boundary lines adopted in 2022.

The seat is a target for Democrats nationally as they...
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Rand Paul says email exchange between top Fauci aide and EcoHealth ‘looks like a cover-up’

  • News source: FOX News
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Man granted parole for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of 2 Dartmouth College professors

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A man who’s served more than half of his life in prison for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors as part of a plan to rob and kill people before fleeing overseas has been granted parole
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Starbucks is introducing a cold drink cup made with less plastic

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Booming sales of cold drinks at Starbucks stores have created a problem: growing amounts of plastic waste from the single-use cups that Frappuccinos, Refreshers, cold brews and other iced drinks are served in
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Juror quits Trump hush-money trial over fears she could be identified

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A juror has been excused from duty in Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York.
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Far-right German politician tried for Nazi slogan

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A leader of the AfD party is on trial for saying the words "All for Germany!" at a 2021 rally.
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Spain and Italy clash over abortion laws

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Italy's prime minister hits back at Spanish criticism of a bill allowing anti-abortion groups in clinics.
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Flurry of attacks heighten Israel-Hezbollah fears

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A spate of strikes and retaliations has left dead and injured on both sides of the border.
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Burkina Faso's junta expels French diplomats

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The junta has accused three diplomats of "subversive activities", which France has denied.
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