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Today's Political News Compilation - Monday, May 13, 2024

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Star witness Michael Cohen directly implicates Trump in testimony at hush money trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe, Michael Cohen, directly implicated the former president in a hush money scheme Monday, telling jurors that his celebrity client tasked him on several occasions to stifle stories about sex that he feared could torpedo his 2016 presidential campaign.



























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Foreign terrorist organizations could target Pride month events: FBI, DHS

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Foreign terrorist organizations may seek to exploit "LGBTQIA+-related events and venues," including events during 2024 Pride month, the FBI and DHS said.
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White House walks diplomatic tightrope on Israel amid contradictory messaging: 'You can't have it both ways'

  • News source: FOX News
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The Biden administration has been taking criticism as of late for what some have described as conflicting messaging on key subjects relating to the United States' top Mideast ally: Israel.

During a daily briefing last week, Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the administration's attestation to an "ironclad commitment" to Israel while "slow-walk[ing] arms sales."

Jean-Pierre replied, in part, by reiterating America's commitment to
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Burying stories, lying, no emails - Cohen on life as Trump's fixer

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Cohen said the ex-president never had an email address, telling Cohen people ''have gone down'' because of emails used against them.
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Georgia set to approve controversial law after protests

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The bill targets civil society organisations and independent media that receive foreign funding.
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Four dead in protests against flour and energy prices

  • News source: BBC News - World
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China due to free vlogger who filmed Wuhan lockdown

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Zhang Zhan had been in jail for four years for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
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UN says staff member killed in Gaza

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A member of the UN's safety team was killed in Rafah on their way to a hospital, the agency says.
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R.F.K. Jr. Isn’t a Spoiler Now, Poll Suggests, but He Could Be in November

  • News source: Nate Cohn
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When Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democrat-turned-independent candidate, announced his run for president, it was reasonable to think he might be a possible spoiler — a candidate who drew voters away from President Biden and could help elect Donald J. Trump.

So far, it’s not so simple.

Across the battleground states in the New York Times/Siena College polls released Monday, Mr. Kennedy actually drew somewhat more support from Mr. Trump than Mr. Biden, with 8 percent of Mr. Trump’s supporters preferring Mr. Kennedy in the five-way race to 7 percent of...
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What to Watch in Primaries in Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia

  • News source: Jonathan Weisman
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Voters in Maryland, West Virginia and Nebraska go to the polls on Tuesday for primaries that will test the political resonance of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the hold on the Republican Party by former President Donald J. Trump and the power of money in the Democratic Party.

Here is what to watch:

Deep blue Maryland was not on anyone’s list of hot contests when Senator Ben Cardin, a Democrat, announced he would retire at the end of his third term this January. Representative David Trone, the deep-pocketed owner of Total Wine & More, an...
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Biden Will Raise Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles, Chips and Other Goods

  • News source: Jim Tankersley
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President Biden will announce on Tuesday that he is raising tariffs on an array of Chinese imports, including electric vehicles, solar cells, semiconductors and advanced batteries, in what he calls an effort to protect strategic American industries from a new wave of competitors that are unfairly subsidized by Beijing.

The president will also officially endorse maintaining tariffs on more than $300 billion worth of Chinese goods that were put in place by President Donald J. Trump. Mr. Biden criticized those tariffs as taxes on American consumers...
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Nevada, Newly Trump-Friendly, Poses a Challenge and a Mystery for Biden

  • News source: Kellen Browning and Nicholas Nehamas
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When the country catches a cold, Nevada gets the flu. That’s the common wisdom for the economy in the state, which is heavily dependent on tourism and suffered more than any other from pandemic lockdowns.

The same idea could apply to President Biden’s polling numbers. New surveys by The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena College published on Monday showed Mr. Biden trailing former President Donald J. Trump in nearly every battleground state, but he appeared to be in the roughest shape in Nevada, where he was down by 12 percentage...
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How Biden’s Trade War With China Differs From Trump’s

  • News source: Jim Tankersley
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Joseph R. Biden Jr. ran for the White House as a sharp critic of President Donald J. Trump’s crackdown on trade with China. In office, though, he has taken Mr. Trump’s trade war with Beijing and escalated it, albeit with a very different aim.

The two men, locked in a rematch election this fall, share a rhetorical fondness for beating up on China’s economic practices, including accusing the Chinese of cheating at global trade. They also share a building-block policy for countering Beijing: hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, or taxes, on...
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House G.O.P. Defunds L.G.B.T.Q. Centers by Banning Earmarks for Nonprofits

  • News source: Catie Edmondson
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When Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee moved unilaterally last summer to nix federal funding requested by Democrats for three programs serving the L.G.B.T.Q. community, the normally collegial spending panel erupted in partisan strife.

“They always say there are Democrats, Republicans and appropriators,” said Representative Mark Pocan, Democrat of Wisconsin, who is gay. “And now we have to say there are Democrats, Republicans, appropriators — and, unfortunately, a bigger umbrella called bigots.”

Now House Republicans, facing mounting...
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R.F.K. Jr. Is 2024’s X Factor, New Polls Show, Fueled by Young Voters and Social Media

  • News source: Shane Goldmacher and Neil Vigdor
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Russian president Putin to make a state visit to China this week

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The Chinese Foreign Ministery says Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week
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