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Today's Political News Compilation - Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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Former President Donald Trump returns to court after a break in his trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)

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Trump says he’ll use National Guard to deport migrants, doubling down on anti-immigration rhetoric

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says he’d use the National Guard as part of efforts to deport millions of migrants across the country if he’s reelected, signaling that he’s doubling down on anti-immigration rhetoric that fueled his previous rise to power. Trump’s comments came during a lengthy in-person and telephone interview with Time magazine earlier this month. The accompanying story was published online on Tuesday.

























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On his day off court, fired-up Trump hits swing states

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The former president met supporters in Wisconsin and Michigan - two battleground states.
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Columbia college community 'shattered' by police raid

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Students say they have lost trust and are in limbo after New York officers arrested Gaza protesters.
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'Qatar targeted my brother on Grindr - I want him home’

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The British-Mexican man has HIV and has run out of his usual medication, says his family.
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Missing South Africa girl: Our children are scared

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Joshlin Smith has still not been found after going missing from a South African town in February.
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The insect farmers turning to AI to help lower costs

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Makers of insect-based animal feed hope to be able to compete with soybeans on price.
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Senate Democrats Reintroduce Legislation to Legalize Marijuana

  • News source: Kayla Guo
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Senate Democrats reintroduced broad legislation on Wednesday to legalize cannabis on the federal level, a major policy shift with wide public support, but it is unlikely to be enacted this year ahead of November’s elections and in a divided government.

The bill, which amounts to a Democratic wish list for federal cannabis policy, would end the federal prohibition on marijuana by removing it from a controlled substances list. The government currently classifies the drug as among the most dangerous and addictive substances.

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'Disqualifying': RFK Jr. faces backlash over 'unhinged' claims about red states in resurfaced video

  • News source: FOX News
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Republicans are hammering independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over a resurfaced video where he says individuals in red states are more likely to commit heinous crimes and "murder you."

In a resurfaced video, posted by former President Donald Trump's MAGA War Room X account Wednesday, RFK Jr. is seen making the disparaging comments about Republicans at a 2005 IdeaCity speech.

"Red state people are more likely to murder you, to impregnate your teenage daughter, to commit a violent crime against you, to commit a nonviolent crime...
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Voicemail threats to Montana Sen. Tester land constituent in prison

  • News source: FOX News
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A Montana man who pleaded guilty to leaving voicemail messages threatening to kill Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and his family was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Anthony James Cross, 30, of Billings pleaded guilty in January to making threats to injure and murder a U.S. senator.

MILLIONS OF DOLLARS POUR INTO CRUCIAL SENATE RACE AS DEMS TRY TO DERAIL GOP CAMPAIGN: 'RELENTLESS ASSAULT'

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Watters accepted a plea agreement that called for dismissing a charge that Cross...
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WATCH: Birth of baby giraffe surprises Houston Zoo

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Keepers at the Houston Zoo knew giraffe Kamili was pregnant, but didn't know the exact delivery date — until they arrived at work one morning to find a newborn baby giraffe, named Tino.
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Counter-protesters attack UCLA pro-Palestinian camp

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Fireworks and tear gas flew through the air after masked pro-Israeli assailants tore down barricades.
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Saudi women's rights activist jailed for 11 years

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Manahel al-Otaibi was convicted of "terrorism charges" reportedly related to her social media posts.
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Sept. 11 Trial Plea Negotiations Still Underway at Guantánamo Bay

  • News source: Carol Rosenberg
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers are still negotiating toward a plea agreement for the men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks despite the Biden administration’s refusal to endorse certain proposed conditions, the lead prosecutor said in court on Wednesday at Guantánamo Bay.

“This is all whirling around us,” said Clayton G. Trivett Jr., the prosecutor, discussing key details of the negotiations in open court for the first time. He added that “around the edges we have agreed to do things” and that “the positions that we took at the time...
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How Six-Week Abortion Bans Went From Fringe to Reality

  • News source: Jess Bidgood
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Just over a decade ago, six-week abortion bans were seen as too radical even by many members of the anti-abortion movement, who worried they carried too much political and legal risk.

On Wednesday, Florida became the latest state to put one into effect.

The law, which was signed last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, cuts off access to the procedure before many women even know they are pregnant, leaving millions of women in the South hundreds of miles from a clinic offering abortion.

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Read the Trump Hush-Money Trial Transcripts

  • News source: The New York Times
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Trump Praises Police Crackdowns on Campus Protests

  • News source: Michael Gold
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In his first campaign rally since his criminal trial in Manhattan began, former President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday urged college presidents to take a tougher approach to protests over the war in Gaza that have swept across campuses and praised police action at the demonstrations.

Calling protesters “raging lunatics” and suggesting without evidence that they were hired and paid by liberal groups to draw attention away from the surge of migrants at the border, Mr. Trump commended New York City police officers who, in riot gear, arrested dozens of...
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