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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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Police arrest 93 in LA as Gaza protests intensify in US

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Dozens are taken into custody as police clear an encampment at the University of Southern California.
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Russia vetoes UN vote on stopping space arms race

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The US has previously warned that Russia is trying to develop a space-based, anti-satellite weapon.
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Fauci to testify publicly before Congress for 1st time since retirement

  • News source: FOX News
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institution of Allergy and Infectious Disease, will testify publicly before a congressional panel in June, marking the first time he has done so since retiring from government at the end of 2022.

Fauci has agreed to testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, a House panel investigating the origins of COVID-19 and the government's response to the pandemic, subcommittee Chair Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, announced Wednesday.

Wenstrup said the hearing will allow Americans...
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EPA issues toughest rule yet on power plant emissions

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration's most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation's second-largest contributor to climate change. The rules are a key part of President Biden's pledge to eliminate carbon pollution from the electricity sector by 2035 and...
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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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