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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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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested, camp cleared at Columbia University

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar confirmed Thursday that she was among several students suspended from Columbia University for participating in pro-Palestinian protests.
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San Francisco sues Oakland over proposed airport name change

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The city of San Francisco is suing the city of Oakland over the latter's plan to rename its airport to include "San Francisco."
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Trader Joe's recalls basil amid ongoing FDA salmonella investigation

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Trader Joe's voluntarily recalled basil amid an ongoing salmonella outbreak investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Liquor sales in movie theaters, to-go sales of cocktails included in New York budget agreement

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New York would expand access to booze under a series of measures unveiled on Thursday as part of a larger state budget agreement
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Johnson Has a Tough Job. McCarthy’s Concessions Are Making It Tougher.

  • News source: Catie Edmondson
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Speaker Mike Johnson’s push to advance an aid package for Ukraine in the face of vehement opposition from his own party was never going to be easy.

But it has been made even more politically perilous by a pair of concessions to the far right that he inherited from his predecessor: allowing a single lawmaker to call a snap vote to oust the speaker, and giving ultraconservatives a bloc of seats on a crucial panel that controls what legislation can make it to the House floor.

Both of those concessions, agreed to by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy more...
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U.S. Restarts Deportation Flights to Haiti

  • News source: Hamed Aleaziz
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Immigration officials sent dozens of Haitians back to their home country on Thursday, according to three government officials, in the first deportation flight conducted by the United States government in months to the country, which has been gripped by widespread violence.

Deportation flights are generally viewed as a way to deter migrants from crossing the southern border without authorization. The United States has been concerned about migration from Haiti after a gang takeover of its capital, Port-au-Prince, this year led to the planned...
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Heat-Related ER Visits Rose in 2023, CDC Study Finds

  • News source: Noah Weiland
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The rate of emergency room visits caused by heat illness increased significantly last year in large swaths of the country compared with the previous five years, according to a study published on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The research, which analyzed visits during the warmer months of the year, offers new insight into the medical consequences of the record-breaking heat recorded across the country in 2023 as sweltering temperatures stretched late into the year.

The researchers used data on emergency room visits from...
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Arrest over alleged Russia plot to kill Zelensky

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Prosecutors say the man was tasked with getting information on an airport used by Ukraine's leader.
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Top Cuban official says country open to more U.S. deportations

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Cuba's government is willing to accept more deportation flights from the U.S. of Cuban migrants, who have traveled to the southern border in record numbers over the past three years, a top Cuban official told CBS News in an exclusive interview.

After a two-year pause, the U.S. restarted deportation flights to the island last year. Since then, the U.S. has been sending one flight with Cuban deportees to Havana each month.

But in an interview with CBS News this week, Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said Cuban...
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Arrests at Columbia University as police move in on pro-Palestinian protesters

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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NEW YORK -- Police made arrests at Columbia University on Thursday at a makeshift encampment set up by pro-Palestinian protesters on the university's quad.

As arrests were being made, some protesters were chanting "NYPD KKK."

In a letter, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik asked the NYPD to move in, writing "I have determined that the encampment and related disruptions pose a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the University."

"With great regret, we request the NYPD's help to remove these individuals," she...
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Dem senator's claim downplaying border crisis resurfaces after staffer killed by illegal immigrant

  • News source: FOX News
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Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto, D-Nev., claimed that there were "no open borders," just two days before the migrant arrested in a deadly car accident that killed her adviser illegally entered into the U.S.

In a resurfaced video from March 10, 2021, a month when Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) reported over 170,000 migrant encounters at the border, Cortez Masto is seen telling MSNBC that there was "a lot of misinformation" surrounding the southern border crisis.

"There's no open border," the Democrat Senator claimed. "As someone who was attorney...
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Anti-cop, anti-Israel rhetoric from staffers threatens Dem’s ‘moderate’ image

  • News source: FOX News
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Texas Democratic Senate candidate Colin Allred has surrounded himself with campaign staffers who have shared what appear to be deeply progressive takes on current political issues — from the war in Israel and a ban on "assault weapons" to the abolition of federal immigration authorities.

The social media history of Allred's current campaign staff sheds light on whom the Texas Senate candidate has hired to help him flip the high-profile seat from red to blue in November.

Allred, who currently represents Texas' 32nd Congressional District in the...
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Israel should not directly attack Iranian soil, ex commanders say

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Two former senior Israeli military officials said a direct military strike against Iranian territory would not be in Israel's interests.
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Couples allege IVF provider destroyed their embryos in toxic solution: Lawsuit

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Two couples filed lawsuits against IVF provider Ovation Fertility alleging its clinic destroyed their embryos by storing them in toxic hydrogen peroxide.
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Nearly 50 pounds of meth found in ice chest full of dead fish at US border crossing

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Almost 50 pounds of methamphetamine found in an ice chest full of fish has been discovered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in a car crossing into the U.S.
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