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Today's Political News Compilation - Monday, May 6, 2024

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Denial and uncertainty are looming over a Biden-Trump rematch 6 months out from Election Day

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — This North Carolina voter is nervous.

Will Rikard, a 49-year-old father of two, was among several hundred Democrats who stood and cheered for Joe Biden as the first-term president delivered a fiery speech recently about the billions of dollars he has delivered to protect the state’s drinking water.

But afterward, the Wilmington resident acknowledged he is worried about Biden’s political standing in the looming rematch with former Republican President Donald Trump. ...
























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Security guard shot outside Drake's Toronto mansion: Police

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The security guard remains hospitalized in serious condition following the early morning shooting outside Drake's Toronto mansion, authorities said.
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TikTok sues federal government over potential US ban

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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TikTok and its owners ByteDance filed a lawsuit against the federal government Tuesday over its potential ban of the app in the United States.
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Drake's security guard shot at rapper's Toronto home

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A lyrical beef between the Canadian rapper and US rival Kendrick Lamar has exploded in recent days.
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Polish security finds cabinet meeting room bugged

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Bugging devices are removed from a room in the city of Katowice where ministers were due to meet.
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NY governor in gaffe on black children and computers

  • News source: BBC News - World
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One elected official calls Kathy Hochul's remark about young African Americans "genuinely appalling".
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All-powerful Putin renews oath in firm control of Russia

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Russia's president is sworn in for another six years, with no checks and balances on his power.
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U.S. Tightens Rules on Risky Virus Research

  • News source: Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller
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The White House has unveiled tighter rules for research on potentially dangerous microbes and toxins, in an effort to stave off laboratory accidents that could unleash a pandemic.

The new policy, published Monday evening, arrives after years of deliberations by an expert panel and a charged public debate over whether Covid arose from an animal market or a laboratory in China.

A number of researchers worried that the government had been too lax about lab safety in the past, with some even calling for the creation of an independent agency to make...
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Blinken Holds Regional Talks on Migration in Latin America

  • News source: Hamed Aleaziz
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was set to meet with senior Latin American officials in Guatemala on Tuesday as part of the Biden administration’s push to get countries in the region to ramp up enforcement of their borders and expand legal ways to migrate.

President Biden has faced criticism for his handling of the southern border, and the issue is a key concern for many voters in this year’s presidential election. U.S. officials have, in recent years, increasingly turned to international partnerships to help them keep large numbers of migrants...
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Biden, at Holocaust remembrance ceremony, says hatred against Jews brought to life by Hamas attack

  • News source: FOX News
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President Biden said Tuesday that the hatred of Jews "continues to lie deep in the hearts of too many people in the world" while delivering the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Days of Remembrance ceremony.

The president spoke in Washington, D.C. as anti-Israel protests have been disrupting college campuses around the country.

"That hatred is brought to life on October 7th, in 2023, on a sacred Jewish holiday," Biden said. "The terrorist group Hamas unleashed the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the...
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Red state governor signs bill cracking down on squatters: 'Best dwelling' for them 'is a jail cell'

  • News source: FOX News
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed into law on Monday a bill that strengthens the rights of homeowners against squatters who illegally occupy their property.

The measure, House Bill 182, was sponsored by state Rep. Craig Lipscomb and creates harsher penalties for individuals who occupy property they do not own. Additionally, the measure enhances penalties for those who falsify real estate documents – such as a lease or deed – in an effort to show they have a right to occupy the property.

The new law, which received bipartisan support in...
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Ilhan Omar’s 'pro-genocide' Jews remark sparks House censure effort

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is being hit with a censure resolution on Tuesday after she referred to some Jewish students as "pro-genocide" during a recent visit to Columbia University.

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., is introducing the resolution against Omar on Tuesday, a source familiar with his plans told Fox News Digital.

The New York City Ivy League school has been the flashpoint for nationwide demonstrations on college campuses, where students have set up tent encampments to protest their universities' financial ties to pro-Israel...
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Atlanta to pay $3.8 million to family of church deacon who died in struggle with officer

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The Atlanta City Council has agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a church deacon who died in a struggle with a city police officer following a minor car crash
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Russian court says American man jailed for drunken "petty hooliganism"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Moscow — A Moscow court said Tuesday that it had sentenced a U.S. citizen to 10 days in detention for petty hooliganism after he stumbled drunkenly into a children's library and passed out. News of the American's detention came just hours after Russian and U.S. authorities said a U.S. soldier was being held in custody in the far eastern city of Vladivostok on suspicion of theft in a separate case.

Russia's REN TV said the man detained in Moscow had climbed through the window of a children's library in the Russian capital and fallen asleep while...
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New York governor regrets saying Black kids in the Bronx don't know what a computer is

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested Black children in the Bronx do not know what the word “computer” means
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Judge dismisses lawsuit by mother who said school hid teen's gender expression

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression without consulting her
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