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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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Slovakian prime minister shot in assassination attempt, rushed to hospital

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot in the abdomen in an assassination attempt in the town of Handlova on Wednesday, according to a government official.
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Red Lobster closes multiple locations, prepares to file for bankruptcy

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Red Lobster is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and selling off items from newly closed restaurants at auction.
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'Huge problem': Vulnerable Dem senator ripped after interview resurfaces touting similarity with Biden

  • News source: FOX News
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Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is facing heat both online and from his political opponents over a resurfaced clip where he explains that the policies of President Biden are "not much different" than his.

"I've known him well enough over really decades now, I think he predictably will fight for workers, he will be an appealing presence in Ohio," Brown told WKYC Channel 3 during an interview in January 2021, shortly before Biden's inauguration.

"I know he lost Ohio. Ohio, as you point out Stephanie, is increasingly harder for a Democrat to win but I...
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Justice Alito warns college students that ‘support for freedom of speech is declining’

  • News source: FOX News
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is warning students that "support for freedom of speech is declining" -- especially on American college campuses.

Alito made the remark over the weekend during a commencement speech at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. Anti-Israel protests have been rocking college campuses nationwide.

"Right now in the world outside this beautiful campus, troubled waters are slamming against some of our most fundamental principles. Support for freedom of speech is declining, dangerously," Alito said Saturday...
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Slovak PM in 'life-threatening condition' after assassination attempt

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Robert Fico was shot in front of a building in the central Slovak town of Handlova. His alleged assailant detained.
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Battles intensify in Gaza's Jabalia and Rafah

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israeli forces and Hamas fighters say they are engaged in fierce clashes in north and south Gaza.
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Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The weapons transfer comes as Israeli tanks were spotted advancing deeper into residential areas of Rafah.
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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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Overdose Deaths Dropped in U.S. in 2023 for First Time in Five Years

  • News source: Jan Hoffman
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Overdose deaths in the United States declined slightly last year, the first decrease in five years, according to preliminary federal data released Wednesday.

The rare good news in the decades-old addiction crisis was attributable mostly to a drop in deaths from synthetic opioids, chiefly fentanyl, said researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics, who compiled the numbers.

But the full portrait of the death toll from street drugs remains grim. Even as opioid deaths fell, deaths from stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine rose...
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Biden offers to debate Trump in June and September, shuns debates from nonpartisan organizer

  • News source: Josh Boak, Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin | The
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he will not participate in fall presidential debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission that has organized them for more than three decades and instead proposed two debates with former President Donald Trump to be held earlier in the year.

Biden's campaign proposed that the first debate between the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees be held in late June and the second in September before early voting begins. Trump responded to the letter in an interview with Fox News digital, calling the...
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Trump accepts Biden offer to debate him in June and September

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

  • News source: FOX News
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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'

  • News source: FOX News
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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

  • News source: FOX News
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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

  • News source: Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
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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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