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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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Caitlin Clark signs deal with Wilson Sporting Goods for signature basketball line

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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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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California Voters to Decide Who Will Finish McCarthy’s Term

  • News source: Jonathan Wolfe
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For the third time this year, voters in California’s most conservative congressional district will choose whom they want to replace Kevin McCarthy, the ousted speaker of the House — and this time the winner will head straight to Washington.

In a special runoff election on Tuesday, voters will determine who will finish Mr. McCarthy’s term for the remainder of the congressional session. The choice is between two Republicans: Vince Fong, a state assemblyman and former aide to Mr. McCarthy, and Mike Boudreaux, the sheriff of Tulare County. The two men...
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Progressive Prosecutor in Portland Faces Bitter Challenge From Co-Worker

  • News source: Mike Baker
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Four years ago, Mike Schmidt handily won the election to be the top prosecutor in the Portland, Ore. area, expanding the ranks of progressives looking to remake the criminal justice system from the inside.

But he faces a daunting re-election bid from one of his deputies at the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. His rival, Nathan Vasquez, a deputy district attorney, has blamed Mr. Schmidt for Portland’s recent problems with drugs and crime.

Many residents have said they are fed up with the city’s troubles — a sentiment shared by big-city...
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Attorneys stop representing a Utah mom and children's grief author accused of killing her husband

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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She allegedly killed her husband, then published a kids book about loss, grief.
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It's so hot in Mexico, howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees

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At least 83 howler monkeys were found dead in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
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Top Trump allies meet with Netanyahu in Israel as ICC seeks arrest warrants

  • News source: FOX News
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Top allies of former President Trump traveled to Israel this week to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Former national security adviser Robert O’Brien made the trip alongside two other former Trump administration officials. They stayed in the country for three days, meeting with both Netanyahu and his top political rival, Benny Gantz.

O'Brien was accompanied by John Rakolta, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates under Trump, and Ed McMullen, a former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland.

"My goal on this trip was...
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Key Trump witness nixed after Merchan's stringent rulings reveals what his testimony would have been

  • News source: FOX News
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Former President Trump’s legal team was slated to call on a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission to testify in the NY v. Trump case, but the expert’s testimony was not heard after the presiding judge curbed the scope of what he could discuss before the jury.

"Judge Merchan has so restricted my testimony that defense has decided not to call me. Now, it’s elementary that the judge instructs the jury on the law, so I understand his reluctance," former FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith posted on X Monday.

"But the Federal Election...
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Trump Opens Door to Birth Control Restrictions, Then Tries to Close It

  • News source: Maggie Astor
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Former President Donald J. Trump dodged a question about whether he backed restrictions on contraception in an interview on Tuesday, but suggested he might support letting states decide the matter for themselves.

When asked if he supported restrictions on “a person’s right to contraception” in an interview on KDKA, a CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh, Mr. Trump gave a vague answer.

“We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly,” he said. “And I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting, and it’s another issue that’s...
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Kerry Kennedy Leads ‘Heart-Wrenching’ Campaign Against Her Brother’s White House Bid

  • News source: Adam Nagourney
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When members of the Kennedy family joined President Biden in Philadelphia to endorse his re-election — and denounce the presidential candidacy of the best-known Kennedy of this generation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — one person stepped forward to make the family’s case: his younger sister Kerry.

“Nearly every single grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden,” Ms. Kennedy said as her siblings, and Mr. Biden, flanked her onstage. “That’s right: The Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden for president.”

That was not the first time that Ms. Kennedy...
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Kamala Harris Courts Union Members, an Up-for-Grabs Group of Voters

  • News source: Nicholas Nehamas
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Vice President Kamala Harris rallied members of one of the nation’s largest labor unions in a key battleground state on Tuesday, redoubling Democrats’ efforts to cast themselves as the true champions of the working class and Republicans as catering to the wealthy.

“November is going to be about two choices, so let’s be clear about that,” Ms. Harris said in Philadelphia, at a convention for the Service Employees International Union. “Whereas the last administration buried our country in debt to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, we are helping dig...
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Four Lawmakers Denounce Plan to Ease Sanctions on Mining Executive

  • News source: Eric Lipton
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A bipartisan group of four congressional lawmakers have objected to the Biden administration plan to boost access to metals needed for electric vehicle batteries by easing sanctions on an Israeli mining executive accused of corrupt practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The objection came as the Biden administration moves to allow Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire, to sell his financial stake in three mines in Congo as part of an effort to remove him from the mining trade there.

Senior Biden officials have argued this will help Congo, the...
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