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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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Violence forces venue change for Haiti council swearing in

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Gangs have taken advantage of an almost complete power vacuum to expand their control in the country.
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Rebel Wilson book published in the UK with blacked out text

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Some sections of the UK edition of the book, released on Thursday, have been redacted.
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House speaker heckled by protesters in campus visit

  • News source: BBC News - World
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While the Speaker visited Columbia, police confronted pro-Palestinian protesters at campuses in Texas and California.
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Kid Cudi cancels tour after breaking foot

  • News source: BBC News - World
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"The injury is much more serious than I first thought," says the rapper as he cancels tour dates.
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Supreme Court to consider Trump's sweeping immunity claim in 2020 election case

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington —The Supreme Court will convene Thursday to consider whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to broad immunity from federal prosecution, jumping into a blockbuster dispute that will be critical to the fate of his 2020 election case in Washington, D.C.

At issue in the case known as Trump v. United States is whether the former president can face criminal charges for allegedly official acts while he was in the White House. The dispute, which arose from the federal prosecution by special counsel Jack Smith, is the second to come...
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Trump trial to continue with third day of testimony by witness David Pecker

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is expected to continue testifying in Donald Trump's New York criminal trial, his third day on the stand.
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Trump will be in NY for the hush money trial while the Supreme Court hears his immunity case in DC

  • News source: Jennifer Peltz, Michael R. Sisak, Colleen Long
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A reluctant Donald Trump will be back in a New York City courtroom Thursday as his hush money trial resumes at the same time that the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Washington over whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions he took during his time as president.

Jurors will hear more witness testimony from a veteran tabloid publisher, and Trump faces a looming decision over whether he violated a gag order imposed by the judge. But he had asked to skip out on his criminal trial for the day so he could sit in on the high court’s...
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Paris's Moulin Rouge loses windmill sails overnight

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The cause of the sails' collapse from the roof of the world famous cabaret club is not yet clear.
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Free beer and taxi rides to woo voters in Indian city

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Many companies in Bengaluru city have found innovative ways to encourage people to vote.
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Arizona indicts Trump allies over fake elector scheme

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Former Trump advisers Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those charged, court documents show.
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Hundreds of villagers killed in Burkina Faso army revenge attack - report

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Soldiers accused residents of aiding Islamist fighters before shooting at them, an investigation shows.
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Searing heat shuts schools for 33 million children

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Bangladesh has closed schools and colleges due to extreme heat for the second year in a row.
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Biden admin cracks down on power plants fueling nation's grid

  • News source: FOX News
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The Biden administration finalized highly anticipated regulations on Thursday, cracking down on existing and future fossil fuel-fired power plants as part of its sweeping climate agenda.

In a joint announcement, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and White House officials said the rules would target all coal-fired power generation and future natural gas power plants. The regulations, according to the officials, will help the nation meet President Biden's goals of decarbonizing the nation's power grid and transitioning to green energy sources like...
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Juggling Campaign and Foreign Policy, Biden Sends Complicated Messages

  • News source: Peter Baker
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President Biden just signed a bill that could ban President Biden from using TikTok. But Mr. Biden plans to keep using TikTok until Mr. Biden’s new law forces Mr. Biden off it.

His political team in Wilmington, Del., after all, considers TikTok a vital tool to reach young voters who could be crucial to his chances of winning re-election this fall. The problem is that his national security team in Washington considers the Chinese-owned social media site a threat to America that should be banned if it is not sold.

Reconciling those two imperatives...
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Biden, Seeking to Build on Fruitful Week, Will Announce Billions in Chip Grants

  • News source: Madeleine Ngo and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
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President Biden, seeking to capitalize on a week of favorable political developments, plans to announce on Thursday that his administration will provide up to $6.1 billion in grants to Micron Technology, the latest federal award intended to shore up the nation’s domestic supply of semiconductors.

Micron will use the grants to help build two leading-edge chip manufacturing plants in New York and another facility in Idaho, Biden administration officials said before the president’s trip to Syracuse, N.Y., for the announcement. The federal government...
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