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Today's Political News Compilation - Thursday, May 16, 2024

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House Republicans ditch their day jobs to stand with Trump, while legislating languishes

Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have repeatedly thrown this Congress into chaos showed up Thursday at Donald Trump’s hush money trial to do what they do best.

They stood outside Trump Tower filming their support for the indicted former president. They filed into the Manhattan courthouse “standing back and standing by,” as Rep. Matt Gaetz put it — invoking Trump’s call to the extremist Proud Boys. They were admonished to put down their cell phones.


























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Biden announces grants to further desegregate schools on Brown vs. Board anniversary

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The $20 million in new grants will go to creating magnet programs across the country to attract students across many backgrounds, the White House says.
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AOC rips Fetterman for comparing House to 'Jerry Springer' show: 'I stand up to bullies'

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., criticized fellow Democrat from Pennsylvania, Sen. John Fetterman, on Friday after he made fun of a House markup that spiraled out of control.

A late night House Oversight markup for a resolution to hold Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress evolved into a shouting match on Thursday, which involved several representatives, including Ocasio-Cortez, and Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas.

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Planned Parenthood suffers loss in legal challenge to South Carolina's fetal heartbeat law

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Pro-life officials on Friday celebrated a South Carolina judge's denial of a Planned Parenthood motion to weaken the state's six-week abortion ban.

A state judge in Columbia ruled against the reproductive health care organization's demand for a preliminary injunction that would slacken South Carolina's six-week abortion restriction to nine weeks, according to The State newspaper.

While Planned Parenthood could reportedly appeal Fifth Circuit Judge Daniel Coble's decision, proponents of the 2023 law expressed confidence the Palmetto State will...
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Former President Trump, Melania at Barron’s graduation in Florida during break in New York criminal trial

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Photos have captured Donald Trump and his wife Melania appearing together Friday at their son Barron’s high school graduation in Florida during a break in the former president’s New York criminal trial.

Barron is one of 116 seniors at the Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach that received their diplomas Friday, according to The Palm Beach Post.

Images show Trump and Melania in attendance to watch Barron walk across the stage.

The 18-year-old has been attending Oxbridge Academy since Trump left the White House in 2021, The Palm Beach Post...
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Mass wedding for Nigeria orphans sparks outcry

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Nigeria's women's minister says she has filed a court order to stop the ceremony planned for next week.
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Israel accuses South Africa of false claims at ICJ

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israel's lawyers push back against South Africa, which is trying to get its Rafah offensive stopped.
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Yogi Immune Support tea voluntarily recalled for pesticide residue

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Nearly 900,000 bags of Yogi Immune Support tea enhanced with echinacea have been voluntarily recalled due to levels of pesticide residue, according to the FDA.
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Raucous congressional hearing with 'fake eyelashes' comment sparks backlash

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Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday said he is disappointed in the chaos and name-calling that happened during a raucous House Oversight Committee markup on Thursday night.
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Alito says wife displayed upside-down flag after argument with insulting neighbor

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WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to Fox News on Friday about the upside-down American flag seen flying outside his home in the days following the Jan. 6 Capitol protests, saying his wife displayed it in response to insults directed at her from a neighbor.

Alito weighed in after The New York Times first reported on the story Thursday, in which it said the upside-down flag — a symbol adopted by some Trump supporters disputing the results of the 2020 presidential election — appeared outside Alito’s home in Alexandria, Virginia, on...
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Israel's army says three hostages' bodies recovered

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The three had been killed in Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October and their bodies taken to Gaza.
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Putin and Xi no longer have a partnership of equals

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Vladimir Putin’s visit to China was a show of strength, but in reality he needs Beijing's support for his war in Ukraine.
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Russia not seeking Kharkiv capture, claims Putin

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Russia's president says he is not after Ukraine's second-largest city - but wants to create a "security zone".
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Row over North Macedonia's name flares up again

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The new president referred to her country as "Macedonia", re-igniting a decades-long name dispute with Greece.
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Nancy Pelosi asks for "very long" sentence for man who attacked her husband

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is asking the court for a "very long" sentence for the man who attacked her husband in their home over a year ago, and Paul Pelosi says he's still suffering dizziness, headaches, balance problems, nerve pain and walking challenges after being struck by David DePape with a hammer.

Paul Pelosi revealed his ongoing health problems in a letter to a federal judge Friday before the sentencing of DePape, who was convicted last November of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer in October 2022.

"I walk slowly and have...
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23-year-old woman killed by rock thrown at her car; no arrests made

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Police in North Carolina are searching for the person who threw a rock at a moving car, hitting and killing a 23-year-old woman, authorities said.
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