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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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Latest version of House TikTok bill gets crucial support in Senate

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Sen. Maria Cantwell, a key senator who has held up legislation regulating TikTok endorsed the House's latest version of a measure that could lead to a ban of the social media app in the U.S.

Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington, announced her support late Wednesday for an updated measure that would force TikTok's Chinese parent company to divest of the widely popular short-form video platform within one year.

The legislation is included in House Speaker Mike Johnson's four-part foreign aid plan, which also involves wartime assistance...
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Kennedy family to make major endorsement in 2024 presidential race as Dem panic grows over RFK, Jr: Report

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Members of the iconic Kennedy family, a longtime staple in American politics, will reportedly announce a major endorsement in the 2024 presidential race on Thursday — a move expected to be a snub of one of their own seeking the White House.

According to Axios, more than a dozen Kennedy family members will appear alongside President Biden at an event in Philadelphia to publicly back him over Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is driving Democrats to panic that his independent White House bid could lead to a victory for former President Donald Trump...
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Congressional Progressive Caucus releases extensive 2025 policy agenda — here's what's on it

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The Congressional Progressive Caucus released an extensive 2025 policy agenda on Thursday, with its chair revealing that "we are not seeing the momentum that we would like to see" for President Biden’s re-election bid.

The seven-point agenda, first obtained by NBC News, calls for a $17 minimum wage, free public higher education and comprehensive policing reform.

It sticks to domestic issues and makes no mention of the war in Gaza, which has once again been thrust into the national spotlight in recent days with anti-Israel protesters blocking...
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‘Constitutional authority’ of Senate Dems quashing Mayorkas impeachment trial questioned by experts

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Constitutional law experts are examining the implications of the precedent set by Senate Democrats on Wednesday, when they killed the impeachment trial of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, effectively dismissing it.

After the Senate deemed both articles of impeachment unconstitutional, the upper chamber adjourned, quashing all hope for a trial on Mayorkas' alleged crimes. This was historically significant, as an impeachment trial had never been dismissed, tabled or otherwise discarded without the accused official having...
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Half of US states revolt against EPA crackdown on gas cars with major legal challenge

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FIRST ON FOX: A coalition of 25 state attorneys general filed a legal challenge Thursday against the Biden administration over recent environmental regulations targeting gas-powered car emissions and pushing electric vehicles (EVs).

Led by Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the coalition filed a challenge against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, asking the court to declare the new rules unlawful. According to the filing, the EPA...
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Dearborn activists' push to bail on Biden spreads to other key battleground states

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DEARBORN, Mich. — The movement to deny President Biden a second term that gained traction in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn has plans to continue a national campaign to target swing states in the general election.

"We’ve mobilized our infrastructure that we’ve been able to build as a grassroots movement in Michigan to support other key states," Lexis Zeidan, one of the lead organizers and the spokesperson for Listen to Michigan, told Fox News Digital.

Some of those states, according to Zeidan, are key battlegrounds such as Wisconsin and Minnesota...
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Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Band singer, songwriter and guitarist, dead at 80

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Supreme Court to weigh bans targeting homeless encampments

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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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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