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Today's Political News Compilation - Thursday, April 8, 2024

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President Joe Biden is defending the right to free speech but says “order must prevail” on college campuses. Biden’s remarks broke days of silence as police crack down on encampments erected to show solidarity with Gaza.
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Biden says ‘order must prevail’ during campus protests over the war in Gaza


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday rejected calls from student protesters to change his approach to the war in Gaza while insisting that “order must prevail” as college campuses across the country face a wave of violence, outrage and fear. “Dissent is essential for democracy,” Biden said at the White House. “But dissent must never lead to disorder.”

























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Police carry out complex choreography in campus protests response

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Dynamic scenes of massive encampments, vocal demonstrations and building occupation have now been playing out on private and public college properties.
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Rep. Henry Cuellar, wife federally charged in bribery scheme

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were federally indicted Friday on more than a dozen charges alleging they accepted at least $598,000 in bribes from both an oil company owned by the Azerbaijan government and a Mexican bank. Nicole Sganga reports.
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US congressman and wife charged with taking bribes

  • News source: BBC News - World
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It is alleged the couple accepted money from an Azerbaijani government-run oil firm and a Mexican bank.
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Watch: Bridge buckles and plunges into Brazil river

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Footage shows a man narrowly avoiding falling into the water as a bridge gives way.
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Universities brace for disruption at graduations

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Students on at least one campus are planning Gaza war protests as commencement season begins this weekend.
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Homes demolished after Kenya flood evacuation order

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Residents of a slum say the destruction of their homes caught them by surprise and they have nowhere to stay.
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Why North Korea's latest propaganda bop is a huge TikTok hit

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A song praising Mr Kim has got TikTok hooked - but experts say it could be hiding something more sinister.
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Alabama Supreme Court declines to revisit controversial frozen embryo ruling

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday declined to reconsider a controversial ruling that said frozen embryos are considered children under a state law.

Justices in a 7-2 decision without comment rejected a request to revisit the ruling that drew international attention and prompted fertility clinics to cease services earlier this year. Alabama justices in February ruled that three couples could pursue wrongful death lawsuits for their "extrauterine children" after their frozen embryos were destroyed in an accident at a storage facility.

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Columbia student protest organizer describes a police raid on campus

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Columbia students were being suspended after their arrests at the “ Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a tactic colleges across the country.
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Bollywood meets ballots: Reel and real in Indian elections

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Critics says a slew of new films points to an emerging genre that aligns with the ruling BJP’s ideology.
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Biden’s Stance on Marijuana Has a Political Upside, Allies Say

  • News source: Jess Bidgood
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On Labor Day in 2022, John Fetterman found himself in a room in Pittsburgh with President Biden.

Fetterman, a Democrat who was then the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and in the middle of his successful run for the U.S. Senate, had a simple message he wanted to share: Go big on legal weed.

And how did the president respond? “He was just, like, ‘Yeah, absolutely,’” Fetterman told me yesterday.

The Justice Department on Tuesday said it had recommended that federal restrictions on marijuana become a whole lot chiller. And while it is not clear...
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U.S. Seeks to Build World Pressure on Russia Over Space Nuclear Weapon

  • News source: Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger
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American officials are trying to increase international pressure on Russia not to deploy an antisatellite nuclear weapon in space, and have obtained information that undermines Moscow’s explanation that the device it is developing is for peaceful scientific purposes, a senior State Department official said on Friday.

Concern over the Russian development of a new generation of space nuclear weapons has been growing in Washington, especially since Moscow’s veto last month of a U.N. measure aimed at keeping space free of such weapons. Some Republicans...
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Trump and Hope Hicks Meet Again as She Testifies in Hush-Money Trial

  • News source: Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman
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Her voice low, her posture tense, the woman who spent years steering Donald J. Trump through strife and scandal stepped to the witness stand on Friday carrying a different burden. She was there under the fluorescent lights of a dreary Manhattan courtroom, seated 15 feet from the former president she once fiercely defended, to testify at his criminal trial.

“I’m really nervous,” Hope Hicks, the onetime Trump spokeswoman, messaging maestro and all-around adviser, acknowledged to the prosecutor questioning her, declaring what was already obvious to the...
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Border Patrol sector stops hundreds of Chinese illegal immigrants in just two days as numbers soar

  • News source: FOX News
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One Border Patrol Sector has seen over two hundred Chinese migrants on two separate days this week, which by itself outpaces the entire number of total Chinese migrants encountered in Fiscal Year 2021.

A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) source told Fox News that on May 1 and May 2, Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector apprehended over 200 Chinese nationals each day.

On Thursday, agents encountered 223 migrants, after encountering 262 on Wednesday.

That means that more Chinese illegal immigrants crossed illegally into the sector in two days than...
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3 big takeaways from Day 11 of Trump's hush money trial

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Former top Trump aide Hope Hicks broke down on the stand during her testimony on Day 11 of Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York.
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