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Today's Political News Compilation - Friday, May 10, 2024

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Appeals court upholds Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld the criminal conviction of Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol.




























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Backcountry skier dies after being buried in Idaho avalanche

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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One skier triggered the collapse climbing to where the pair were going to ski.
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WATCH: Adelaide Zoo welcomes Cape porcupine brothers

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Two Cape porcupines, brothers Walter and Winni, arrived at the Adelaide Zoo after being transferred from Monarto Safari Park.
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Minnesota is officially flying its new flag. What happens to the old one?

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota officially adopted its new state flag on Saturday, making the old flag history. So what happens to the old flag now that it is obsolete?

The old flag, which the Minnesota Legislature adopted in 1957, will no longer fly on any official government building.

Before the new flag was raised at sunrise, the outgoing state flags were retired by the Minnesota National Guard.

The Minnesota Department of Administration says it planned for the new flags to coincide with its flag replacement schedule.

The Minnesota Historical...
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Justice Department seeks 40-year sentence for Paul Pelosi attacker

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Prosecutors want David DePape, the man who broke into Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s home in 2022 and attacked her husband with a hammer, to receive a heavy prison sentence.
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Virginia university students walk out of graduation event

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Dozens of VCU grads left during Gov Glenn Youngkin's speech, in part over his comments on campus protests.
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Dutch contestant disqualified from Eurovision

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The singer, Joost Klein, had been among the favourites to win the contest in Malmö, Sweden.
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Paul Manafort, Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman, Returns to the Republican Arena

  • News source: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
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Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican strategist who was chairman of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign, helped stave off efforts to thwart his nomination at the convention, went to prison and was pardoned by Mr. Trump, has begun advising efforts for the Republican National Convention.

Mr. Manafort, for decades a lobbyist who worked with foreign governments and had extensive experience with past Republican conventions, was present last week for meetings in Milwaukee, where the July convention will take place, according to the two people briefed on the...
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Pelosi rebuked to her face during Oxford debate after condemning Americans clouded by 'guns, gays, God'

  • News source: FOX News
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was rebuked as an "elite" during a recent Oxford Union debate, where she argued that populism in the United States is a threat to democracy.

Pelosi — a self-described "devout" Catholic — said during the April 25 debate that certain Americans, whom she considered to be "poor souls who are looking for some answers," refuse to accept the answers Democrats give them on particular topics due to their beliefs about "guns, gays, [and] God."

Challenging Pelosi's position in the debate about populism, Winston...
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Trump denies report claiming Nikki Haley is 'under consideration' for VP role: 'I wish her well!'

  • News source: FOX News
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Former President Donald Trump dismissed a report Saturday that claimed he and his campaign were considering former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, his former GOP presidential primary opponent, to serve as his running mate in the 2024 presidential election.

"Nikki Haley is not under consideration for the V.P. slot, but I wish her well," Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social.

Trump's post came after a report from Axios, citing "two people familiar with the dynamic," claimed Haley was in the running to be Trump's nominee for vice president.

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Crack in US-Israel alliance for first time in decades

  • News source: BBC News - World
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US says Israel may have breached international law using American weapons

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Report says it is "reasonable to assess" there have been breaches in Gaza, but admits it does not have "complete information".
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Watch: Prince Harry plays sit-down volleyball

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Scientists figure out how to make algae-based plastic that completely breaks down

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Scientists may have found the answer to manufacturing plastics products that actually break down without forming into microplastics.
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Israel orders more evacuations as Rafah fighting intensifies

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Israeli military tells thousands of Palestinians to leave the city as it expands its military operation.
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Justice Alito Warns of Threats to Freedom of Speech and Religion

  • News source: Adam Liptak
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Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned on Saturday that freedom of speech was under threat at universities and that freedom of religion was in peril in society at large.

“Troubled waters are slamming against some of our most fundamental principles,” he said.

He made his remarks at a commencement ceremony at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, a Catholic institution.

“Support for freedom of speech is declining dangerously, especially where it should find deepest acceptance,” he said.

A university, he said, should be “a place for...
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