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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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US Supreme Court to decide if Trump has immunity

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The top court will hear arguments on Thursday in a case that could redefine presidential power.
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Trump Compares Campus Protests to Violent White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville

  • News source: Chris Cameron
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Former President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday played down the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 while portraying a recent wave of vocal but predominantly peaceful pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses as “riots.”

One woman was killed and nearly 40 people were injured when an avowed neo-Nazi plowed his car through a crowd of counterprotesters during violent clashes in Charlottesville. Earlier, hundreds of white supremacists had marched through the city, carrying torches and chanting, “Jews will not replace...
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18 indicted in alleged 2020 fake Arizona elector scheme

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 people Wednesday in the ongoing investigation into an alleged attempt to use alternate electors after the 2020 presidential election as part of a wider alleged conspiracy to falsely declare then-President Donald Trump the winner, the state's attorney general announced.

The alleged fake electors and defendants named in the indictment were Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten and Michael Ward.

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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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Orange Sahara dust haze descends over Athens

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Greek capital was covered in a haze of dust which has blown from the Sahara desert.
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Mining giant BHP proposes buyout of Anglo American

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The UK-based mining giant Anglo American says it has received a takeover proposal from Australia's BHP.
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Secret Service agent on VP Harris' detail removed from assignment after physical fight while on duty

  • News source: FOX News
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Meta shares sink after it reveals spending plans

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The firm said expenses would be higher this year as it spends heavily on artificial intelligence.
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Conn. Gov. Ned Lamont had thousands of trees, bushes ‘illegally’ cut behind $7.5M home

  • News source: FOX News
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Hypocrisy’s the root of the problem.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont had thousands of trees and bushes illegally chopped behind his sprawling Greenwich home — despite publicly championing a statewide effort to plant more conifers, according to angry neighbors and other sources.

The wealthy 70-year-old Democrat was hit with a citation for cutting down more than 180 trees in a protected wetland area to allegedly get a better view of a pond from his $7.6 million abode, CT Insider reported Tuesday.

"[It’s a] chainsaw massacre," land use attorney John...
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More people exposed to Manhattan Project chemicals deserve compensation, advocates say

  • News source: FOX News
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The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has been a lifeline for some people and families exposed to toxins linked to decades-old nuclear weapons tests, but advocates say more people deserve compensation.

The law, first enacted in 1990 and set to expire this year, has provided payments for anyone who may have contracted certain cancers and illnesses as a result of the effort to build the first atomic bomb.

"This goes back to the Manhattan Project and all of the Cold War era, when the government's nuclear program was really made possible by working...
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Arizona alleged ‘fake electors’ who backed Trump in 2020 indicted by grand jury

  • News source: FOX News
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Eleven Republicans have been indicted by a grand jury in Arizona and charged with conspiracy, fraud and forgery for falsely claiming that former President Trump had won the state in 2020 over then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

"I will not allow American democracy to be undermined," Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a Wednesday video announcing the indictments over the "fake elector scheme."

She added, "The investigators and attorneys assigned to this case took the time to thoroughly piece together the details of the events that began...
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Expanded so-called 'Don't Say Gay' education restrictions advance in Alabama

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Alabama is on track to further restrict discussions of "gender identity or sexual orientation" in public schools in a new proposal of the so-called "Don't So Gay" law.
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College encampments grow nationwide: What students are saying

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Protests calling for the divestment from Israeli military operations have continued to spread on college campuses throughout the country.
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New California rule aims to limit health care cost increases to 3% annually

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A new rule in California aims to limit health care price increases to just 3% each year
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Chinese student given 9-month prison sentence for harassing person posting democracy leaflets

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The U.S. Attorney's office says a Chinese former student at Boston's Berklee College of Music has been sentenced to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country
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