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Today's Political News Compilation - Friday, April 26, 2024

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Trump’s lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution’s first witness in hush money trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s defense team attacked the credibility of prosecutors’ first witness in his hush money case on Friday, seeking to discredit testimony detailing a scheme to bury negative stories to protect the Republican’s 2016 presidential campaign. On the witness stand for a fourth day, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker was grilled about his memory and past statements as the defense tried to poke holes in potentially crucial testimony in the first criminal trial of a former American president.


























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Pelosi urges Gaza campus protesters to target Hamas

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Biden ally says outrage about the situation in Gaza is justified but protesters should condemn Hamas too.
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BBC returns to beach where five migrants died

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Andrew Harding saw migrants board an overcrowded boat in Wimereux, northern France, on Tuesday.
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Trump insiders on the stand at the hush-money trial

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The BBC's Nada Tawfik on what the court heard from close Donald Trump allies, including his former assistant.
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Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

  • News source: BBC News - World
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  • Views: 10
The government says a specialist team is looking into the death of the well-known influencer.
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Biden says he's ready for election debate with Trump

  • News source: BBC News - World
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  • Views: 6
US President says he is "happy" to face rival who claims he is ready "anytime, anywhere, anyplace".
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Biden Administration Restores Health Protections for Gay and Transgender People

  • News source: Noah Weiland
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  • Views: 9
The Biden administration announced expansive new protections on Friday for gay and transgender medical patients, prohibiting federally funded health providers and insurers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

The new rule reverses a policy instituted by the Trump administration and helps to fulfill part of President Biden’s vow to restore civil rights protections for L.G.B.T.Q. people that were eliminated by his predecessor.

“Today’s rule is a giant step forward for this country toward a more equitable and...
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Stock shorters have made millions betting against Trump Media: ‘A lot of his businesses go belly up'

  • News source: Bernard Condon | Associated Press
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Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable.

Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive buying by Trump loyalists and wild swings that often mirror the candidate’s latest polls, court trials and outbursts on Truth Social itself.

Several of these investors interviewed by The Associated Press say their bearish gambles using...
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Sheriff's deputies fatally shoot driver while serving a high-risk drug warrant in Memphis

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Officials say sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a man who sped toward them in a vehicle as they were serving a search warrant in a neighborhood on Friday in Memphis, Tennessee
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1 climber dead, another seriously hurt after 1,000-foot fall on Alaska peak

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Authorities say a climber is dead and another seriously injured after falling about 1,000 feet while on a steep, technical route on Mount Johnson in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve
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Here are all the gag order violations Trump is accused of making

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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As Trump awaits a ruling on whether he will be held in contempt for violating a gag order, prosecutors on Thursday accused him of making four more violations.
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Columbia University’s policy-making senate votes for resolution calling to investigate school’s leadership

  • News source: FOX News
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G.O.P. Asks Secret Service to Move Protesters Away From Convention Venue

  • News source: Chris Cameron
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The Republican Party sent a letter to the Secret Service on Friday urging the police agency to keep protesters farther away from the venue for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July.

The three-page letter, signed by Todd R. Steggerda, counsel to the Republican National Committee, objected to the placement of an area where protesters would be allowed to demonstrate. Mr. Steggerda argued that convention attendees would be forced to pass by the protesters on their way into the venue, raising the potential for confrontations.

“As...
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Regulators close Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank, first US bank failure this year

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Regulators have closed Republic First Bank, a regional lender operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York
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Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a month

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Officials in Canada say a young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island has gotten past a bottleneck at high tide, reaching an inlet that could take it to the open sea
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NFL to allow players to wear protective soft-shell helmet covers during games

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 10
The NFL says it will allow players to wear protective soft-shell helmet covers known as Guardian caps during games next season if they choose
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