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Today's Political News Compilation - Tuesday, May 21, 2024

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Donald Trump’s lawyers have rested their defense in the former president’s New York hush money trial, bringing the case one step closer to final arguments. (AP Video: John Minchillo)

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Defense rests without ex-President Trump taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money criminal trial, moving the case closer to the moment when the jury will begin deciding his fate.


























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STIs, including syphilis, gonorrhea, increasing globally, WHO report finds

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report Tuesday that found the number of sexually transmitted infections have increased around the world.
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South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
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Parole delayed for former LA police detective convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A chance for parole has been delayed for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986
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The bodies of 4 men and 2 women were found strangled, piled up in Mexican resort of Acapulco

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The bodies of four men and two women have been found strangled and dumped in a pile in Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Acapulco
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New York City mayor's aide now cooperating with federal corruption probe: report

  • News source: FOX News
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One month after the FBI announced it was looking into international flights New York Democratic Mayor Eric Adams took on Turkish Airlines, a top City Hall aide is reportedly now cooperating with the probe.

Rana Abbasova, whom the New York Times described as the mayor's former liaison to New York City's Turkish community, is cooperating with federal agents, according to the outlet. The investigation is centered on whether Adams' 2021 campaign conspired with the Turkish government and others to funnel money into its coffers.

The multipronged FBI...
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Armies of young insurgents are changing the course of a forgotten war

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The BBC's Quentin Sommerville spent a month with revolutionary forces at jungle bases and on front lines in Myanmar.
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German novel Kairos wins International Booker

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Jenny Erpenbeck is the first German writer and Michael Hofmann the first male translator to win £50,000 prize.
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Seven Palestinians killed in Israeli West Bank raid

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Palestinian health ministry says those killed include a doctor who was on his way to work.
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Thousands at Iran president's funeral procession

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Mourners waved Iranian flags and portraits of the late president, who will be buried on Thursday.
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Tuesday's primaries include presidential races and the prosecutor in Trump's Georgia election case

  • News source: Jonathan J. Cooper | The Associated Press
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The presidential primaries that Joe Biden and Donald Trump have already clinched will move closer to their end Tuesday.

Voters in two states, Kentucky and Oregon, will get their chance to weigh in, symbolic decisions that provide a few more delegates to the national conventions and a gut check on where the Democratic and Republican bases stand toward their standard-bearers.

Even after they secured the nominations and their rivals dropped out, Biden and Trump have continued facing dissent from within their own parties. Biden has faced protest votes...
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Caitlin Clark signs deal with Wilson Sporting Goods for signature basketball line

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Caitlin Clark has signed a multiyear deal with Wilson Sporting Goods for a signature basketball line
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Woman found living in Michigan store sign told police it was a little-known 'safe spot'

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Police in Michigan have released body camera video of an encounter with a woman who was living inside a sign on the roof of a grocery store
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Trump campaign says it will sue 'The Apprentice' filmmakers: 'This garbage is pure fiction'

  • News source: FOX News
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Former President Trump's team is preparing to file a lawsuit against the makers of a biopic about his career in the 1980s.

A spokesperson for Trump called "The Apprentice" – a 2024 film starring Sebastian Stan and directed by Ali Abbasi – a piece of "garbage" and "pure fiction."

"We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked," Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.

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Trump says he 'will never advocate imposing restrictions on birth control' or other contraceptives

  • News source: FOX News
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Former President Trump said he has never and "will never advocate imposing restrictions on birth control," and vowed to ensure the Republican Party would not support a ban on any contraceptives.

"I HAVE NEVER, AND WILL NEVER ADVOCATE IMPOSING RESTRICTIONS ON BIRTH CONTROL, or other contraceptives," Trump posted on his Truth Social Tuesday.

TRUMP SAYS ABORTION SHOULD BE DECIDED BY THE STATES, 'WILL OF THE PEOPLE'

"This is a Democrat fabricated lie, MISINFORMATION/DISINFORMATION, because they have nothing else to run on except FAILURE, POVERTY, AND...
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Trump Lawyers Accuse Prosecutors of Misconduct in Documents Case

  • News source: Alan Feuer
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For the past few months, federal prosecutors and lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump have been battling in secret over allegations of misconduct and politicization in how the government handled the investigation that led to an indictment accusing Mr. Trump of illegally holding on to classified documents after he left office.

The fight spilled into the public eye on Tuesday as the judge overseeing the case unsealed a pair of motions by Mr. Trump attacking the integrity of the inquiry and claiming that the special counsel, Jack Smith, had...
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