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Today's Political News Compilation - Tuesday, May 14, 2024

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Lies, loyalty and a gag order upheld: Tuesday’s Trump hush money trial takeaways


NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s attorneys started grilling prosecutors’ star witness in his hush money trial Tuesday, portraying former attorney Michael Cohen as a media-obsessed liar who’s determined to see the former president behind bars.

Cohen endured intense questioning by defense attorney Todd Blanche after providing pivotal testimony tying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee directly to the hush money scheme at the heart of the case.
























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Trump accepts Biden offer to debate him in June and September

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Young, Black and Republican: House conservative aims to win Black voters over with cognac and cigars

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FIRST ON FOX — Republicans are ramping up efforts to reach out to Black voters as a critical November election approaches, with President Biden, a Democrat, appearing to lose support with minorities.

Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, is spearheading an initiative to recruit Black voters, particularly Black men, into the party's fold after former President Trump in 2020 showed surprising strength with that traditionally Democratic constituency. Hunt told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that Trump's popularity with Black men is a "phenomenon,"...
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Biden calls Trump a 'loser,' wonders if former president 'injected bleach'

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President Biden mocked his GOP rival on Tuesday during his speech at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies’ (APAICS) gala.

Biden mentioned former President Donald Trump while offering a list of policy initiatives, saying Trump personally called Republicans to kill a bipartisan border agreement earlier this year.

"That bipartisan bill has majority support in the House and Senate. But I was told, that other guy, that loser," Biden told the guests to a round of laughter.

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'An actual revolution': Communist Party organizer reveals true mission at UCLA anti-Israel rally

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FIRST ON FOX: A watchdog organization with a focus on higher education released video this week showing an operative from an outside communist group taking part in an anti-Israel protest on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.

"I'm a revolutionary organizer," a woman named "Annie" tells an undercover journalist with Accuracy in Media in a video
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Biden Offers to Debate Trump, With Terms, Shunning the Debate Commission

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President Biden is willing to debate former President Donald J. Trump at least twice before the election, and as early as June — but his campaign is rejecting the nonpartisan organization that has managed presidential debates since 1988, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times.

The letter by the Biden campaign lays out for the first time the president’s terms for giving Mr. Trump what he has openly clamored for: a televised confrontation with a successor Mr. Trump has portrayed, and hopes to reveal, as too feeble to hold the job.

Mr...
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Biden challenges Trump to 2 presidential debates: 'Make my day'

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President Joe Biden on Wednesday challenged Donald Trump to participate in two 2024 presidential debates.
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Biden campaign says president willing to debate Trump twice

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Washington — President Biden intends to debate former President Donald Trump in the run-up to the November presidential election and is willing to face off against his Republican opponent in the race for the White House twice, his campaign said in a letter Wednesday that laid out its other terms for debates this election season.

In addition to specifying Mr. Biden's plans for debating Trump, the letter from Jen O'Malley Dillon, chair of the president's reelection campaign, states that he will not participate in debates sponsored by the nonpartisan...
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Inflation expected to have cooled slightly in April

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WATCH: Mama bear chills on swing in British Columbia backyard

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A black bear was the picture of relaxation as it lay on a swing in a British Columbia garden while its cub scampered about nearby.
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2020 presidential candidate's spouse wins primary for David Trone's Maryland House seat

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Former Biden administration official April McClain-Delaney prevailed over a crowded field to win the Democratic primary in Maryland's 6th Congressional District.

The Associated Press called the race for Delaney at 10:21 p.m. She won 39.15% of the vote, with 13,544 votes, a plurality in a field with 15 other candidates, according to unofficial results from the Maryland Secretary of State's office. She will face Republican Neil Parrott in the general election in a race that is favored for Democrats.

"Thank you to everyone who came out to support me...
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House Republican demands Garland appoint special counsel to investigate Biden over stalled Israel aid

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Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland appoint a special counsel to investigate President Biden for stalling military aid to Israel.

In a letter to Garland sent Tuesday, Tenney wrote with "grave concern regarding President Biden's recent announcement to freeze the delivery of 1,800 2000-lb bombs and 1,7000 500-lb bombs that were appropriated for by Congress and set to be delivered to Israel."

"This wrong headed and dangerous policy decision comes on the heels of the decision to the delay on the pending sale...
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Game on as Republicans aim to flip heavily blue state Senate seat in push to regain majority

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Biden aides fear president may be too worried to do his job after Hunter Biden trial begins: report

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Aides for President Biden say he expresses daily worry for his son, Hunter Biden, and that this will only become more severe when the first son's trial begins in June.

White House staff and members of the First Family are concerned about how the trial will affect the president, three advisors who were granted anonymity told Politico. The younger Biden's gun crime trial is set to begin June 3, and he could face jail time if convicted.

"He worries about Hunter every single day, from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to sleep," one of the...
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Mexican villagers killed amid cartel battle

  • News source: BBC News - World
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At least 11 people have been killed in Chiapas state as two cartels battle for control of the area.
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What is Xi Jinping prepared to pay for Putin’s war?

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China is a vital ally, but Mr Xi is facing increasing pressure to distance himself from his "dear friend".
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