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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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Watch: Inside Lebanon's ghost towns after Israeli strikes

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israel has pounded southern Lebanon almost daily since Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on 8 October.
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Apple working to fix alarming iPhone issue

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Users have been reporting unexpected lie-ins after the alarms on their phones failed to go off.
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Russians flock to see captured Western tanks

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The exhibition was on display in Moscow's Victory Park, it included British hardware given to Ukraine.
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Trump Acknowledges He Wanted to Go to the Capitol on Jan. 6

  • News source: Chris Cameron and Michael Gold
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Former President Donald J. Trump said on Wednesday that he asked his Secret Service detail to take him to the Capitol after his speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, acknowledging a key detail of his actions that were central to the findings of the House committee established to investigate the attack.

During a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wis., Mr. Trump brought up a sensational but disputed element of testimony given to the House Jan. 6 committee by a Trump White House aide: that Mr. Trump had lunged for the wheel and physically struggled with...
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Georgia Gov. Kemp signs law requiring jails to check immigration status of inmates

  • News source: FOX News
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Georgia’s governor gave the final approval on Wednesday for a bill requiring jailers across the state to check the immigration status of inmates and work with federal immigration officials instead of sheltering people who are in the U.S. illegally.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill into law at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, making most of the provisions effective immediately.

Kemp also signed a separate law requiring cash bail for an additional 30 crimes, while also restricting people and charitable bail funds from posting cash...
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2 West Virginia county commissioners removed after arrests for skipping public meetings

  • News source: FOX News
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A three-judge panel ordered Wednesday that two county commissioners in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle be removed from office over a month after they were arrested for purposefully jilting their duties by skipping public meetings.

Circuit Court Judges Joseph K. Reeder of Putnam County, Jason A. Wharton of Wirt and Wood Counties and Perri Jo DeChristopher of Monongalia County wrote in a written decision that Jefferson County Commissioners Jennifer Krouse and Tricia Jackson "engaged in a pattern of conducted that amounted to the deliberate, willful...
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Former Ohio GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel threatened with jail time in divorce case

  • News source: FOX News
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A Republican who spent years as one of Ohio's highest profile politicians has been threatened with jail time for violating the terms of his 2020 divorce agreement.

Josh Mandel, a former two-term state treasurer who ran three times for U.S. Senate, was sentenced to seven days behind bars, as was his ex-wife, Ilana Mandel, after an Ashland County court magistrate found them in contempt of court for violating elements of the deal.

The two have an opportunity to avoid the sentence, issued April 25 and first reported by The PlainDealer/cleveland.com, by...
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$15 minimum wage inches closer to appearing on Missouri ballot

  • News source: FOX News
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Missouri voters on Wednesday got a step closer to getting to decide whether to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour, after a group behind the effort said it turned in nearly double the required number of signatures.

The ballot measure backed by Missouri Jobs with Justice would raise the minimum wage from its current $12.30 an hour to $13.75 an hour next year and then to $15 an hour in 2026.

Citizen-driven amendments to Missouri law require more than 100,000 voter signatures to get on the ballot, and Missouri Jobs with Justice said it...
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What to know about 'outside agitators' cops say are co-opting Columbia protests

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Protests at Columbia University and elsewhere throughout the nation have been allegedly "co-opted" by what New York City police officials described as outside agitators.
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Brittney Griner reflects on 'mistake' that led to detention in Russia

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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WNBA star Brittney Griner opened up for the first time about her harrowing detention in Russia and the “mistake” that got her sentenced to nine years in prison.
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Presidential debate commission sticks to schedule despite Trump's urging

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Blinken opposes Netanyahu's plan for Rafah invasion

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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In a visit to Israel on Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated the U.S. does not support Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan for a ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Ramy Inocencio reports from Tel Aviv.
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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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