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Today's Political News Compilation - Monday, April 15, 2024

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Trump’s historic hush-money trial gets underway; 1st day ends without any jurors being picked

The historic hush-money trial of Donald Trump got underway Monday with the arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records in order to stifle stories about his sex life.




























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Oklahoma medical examiner positively identifies recovered bodies as Kansas women

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, both from Hugoton, Kansas, had been missing since March 30.
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Biden campaigns in key battleground state of Pennsylvania

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Biden hit the campaign trail Tuesday for the first of three days in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the upcoming election. Nancy Cordes reports.
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Sen. Bob Menendez could blame wife in bribery trial

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, could incriminate his wife when he heads to trial next month to fight charges that he traded his political influence for cash, gold bars and a luxury Mercedes, according to newly unsealed court documents.

A legal brief from Menendez's lawyers said the senator might testify about communications with his wife that will demonstrate "the ways in which she withheld information" from her husband "or otherwise led him to believe that nothing unlawful was taking place."

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Police make arrests a year after theft of gold and cash worth millions at Toronto's Pearson airport

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Authorities in Canada say they have made arrests in the theft of a cargo container that included gold and other items worth over 20 million Canadian dollars — about $14.5 million — that were stolen from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago
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US Army financial counselor admits to defrauding Gold Star families: DOJ

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Caz Craffy, from Colts Neck, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to obtaining more than $9.9 million from several Gold Star families.
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Ecuador rations electricity as drought persists in the northern Andes

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Ecuador has started to ration electricity in its main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants
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IDF's conduct, ethics under scrutiny following soldiers' social media posts

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Six months into the Israel-Hamas conflict the conduct and ethics of Israel Defense Forces members have come increasingly under the microscope.
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Trump Holds Series of Meetings With Foreign Leaders

  • News source: Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Michael Crowley
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Donald J. Trump plans to meet with the right-wing president of Poland this week, the latest in a series of his private interactions with leaders or emissaries from countries from the Persian Gulf to Eastern Europe, many of whom share an affinity with his brand of politics.

Mr. Trump is expected to have dinner in New York with Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, on Wednesday, his one day off from court this week, according to two people briefed on the arrangements who were not authorized to discuss them publicly. The meeting was mentioned as a...
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Adidas on front foot after exiting Kanye West deal

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Samba, Gazelle and Campus shoe maker expects to make €700m (£598m) operating profits in 2024.
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Supreme Court hears 6 Jan case that may hit Trump trial

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The case could undo felony charges for the former president and hundreds of 6 January rioters.
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'Almost hit my son' - Space junk lands on Florida home

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Three years ago the International Space Station took the trash out. Some of it just hit a home in Florida.
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Minnesota Dems disavow endorsement of candidate accused of stalking opponent

  • News source: FOX News
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Minnesota Democrats have disavowed a local party chapter’s endorsement of a state House candidate who has a violent criminal history and is accused of stalking and harassing the Republican lawmaker he is challenging.

Judd Hoff was endorsed this month by Democrats in District 12 to run for a central Minnesota seat that has been represented by Republican Rep. Mary Franson of Alexandria since 2011. Republicans were quick Monday to demand that Democrats rescind their backing of Hoff.

"Democrats must withdraw their endorsement of this repeat criminal,"...
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African migrants swarm NYC’s City Hall for hearing on ‘experiences of Black immigrants’

  • News source: FOX News
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A hearing on the experiences of African migrants in New York City drew a crowd of more than 1,000 people Tuesday morning, some of whom were reportedly under the false assumption they would be getting work visas or green cards.

Video footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows throngs of people outside city hall, with many gathered at a park across the street.

City Council member Alexa Aviles, who serves as chair of the Committee on Immigration and organized the hearing, said it centered around the "experiences of Black immigrants."

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Draft report says Missouri's House speaker stymied ethics investigation into his spending

  • News source: FOX News
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri ethics panel is at an impasse over reported misconduct by the powerful state House speaker, who allegedly used his office to stymie an investigation into his actions.

A draft of the Ethics Committee report recommended that the House formally denounce actions taken by Republican Speaker Dean Plocher that "substantially impair public confidence in the General Assembly."

MISSOURI DEATH ROW INMATE WHO KILLED COUSIN AND HER HUSBAND IN 2006 IS EXECUTED

Committee members voted 6-2 against the report but made it...
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'Definition of insanity': Frustrated House Republicans blast GOP rebels' threat to oust Johnson

  • News source: FOX News
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House Republicans were left frustrated on Tuesday after two of their colleagues threatened to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., over his plan on foreign aid.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results," Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. "So, you do it again, you're going to end up with the same results."

Those GOP lawmakers are worried about repeating the three weeks of chaos that followed the ouster of ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., by a group of eight Republicans...
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