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Today's Political News Compilation - Monday, May 20, 2024

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media after attending the day’s proceedings at his hush money trial, in New York, Monday, May 20, 2024. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)

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Trump’s social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a ‘unified Reich’


NEW YORK (AP) — A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November.

The headline appears among messages flashing across the screen such as “Trump wins!!” and “Economy booms!” Other headlines appear to be references to World War I.


























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Investigation continues into Matthew Perry's death, source of ketamine: Sources

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The death investigation into "Friends" star Matthew Perry remains ongoing, law enforcement sources said.
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Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis fights for her job in Georgia primary reelection

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is fighting for another term as D.A. as her prosecution of former President Donald Trump and others in the Georgia 2020 election interference case remains tied up in a Georgia appellate court.

"I plan to win and win big," Willis predicted in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Monday night. "I am at a point where I need Fulton County voters to get out and vote."

The 52-year-old prosecutor is running for reelection in the Democratic primary Tuesday against attorney and author Christian Wise Smith. He...
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Biden releasing 1M barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies arraigned in Arizona

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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At least 12 allies of former President Donald Trump were arraigned in Phoenix on charges that include conspiracy, fraud and forgery that are related to an alleged scheme to put forward phony electors in the 2020 election who backed Trump despite President Biden winning the state.

Rudy Giuliani is among the defendants on the docket after being served Friday night while leaving his 80th birthday party, and appeared virtually for the hearing. Other defendants include former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward, former White House chief of staff...
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Anti-Israel agitators interrupt Blinken Senate testimony, hauled out by Capitol police

  • News source: FOX News
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At least four anti-Israel agitators were hauled out of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing by Capitol police while Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified about his department's budget on Tuesday.

While Blinken began his opening statement, a man stood up shouting the name of a 6-year-old boy reportedly killed in Gaza.

"Blinken, you will be remembered as the Butcher of Gaza," the man yelled as officers pulled him out of the hearing room. "You will be remembered for murdering innocent Palestinians."

As other protesters started to...
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LGBT group tackles Chiefs kicker's Catholic college address: 'Erroneous and dangerous'

  • News source: FOX News
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The nation's largest LGBT advocacy organization, GLAAD, has issued a fact check of Harrison Butker's commencement speech at a private Catholic college last week, saying the three-time Super Bowl winner's address was filled with "erroneous and dangerous claims," even suggesting the kicker was out of step with Pope Francis.

"Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker’s commencement speech was not only a clear miss, it was inaccurate, ill-informed, and woefully out of step with Americans about Pride, LGBTQ people and women," GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis...
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Israel shuts down Associated Press news agency's Gaza live feed

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The AP decries the seizure of its camera, which Israel says was producing footage used by Al Jazeera.
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What is flight turbulence and why does it happen?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Most turbulence occurs in cloud with up- and downdrafts of wind, says BBC Weather's Simon King.
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The U.S. Was Resettling Guantánamo Prisoners. The Hamas Attack Halted Those Plans.

  • News source: Carol Rosenberg
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The Biden administration was poised to send about a dozen detainees at Guantánamo Bay to Oman for resettlement last year, but it abruptly halted the secret operation amid questions from Congress about security in the Middle East after Hamas attacked Israel, according to administration officials.

None of the prisoners have ever been charged with crimes, and all of them had been cleared for transfer by national security review panels.

A military cargo plane was already on the runway at Guantánamo Bay ready to airlift the group of Yemeni prisoners to...
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Key Players in Trump’s Georgia Criminal Case Face Voters

  • News source: Richard Fausset
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Two key players in Donald J. Trump’s criminal case in Georgia are on the ballot Tuesday: Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney prosecuting the former president, and Scott McAfee, the presiding judge in the matter.

The two candidates are considered the favorites in their respective races. But they are running for re-election a few months after the election-interference case against Mr. Trump and his allies hit serious turbulence.

Defense lawyers said Ms. Willis’s romance with a lawyer she hired to manage the prosecution — a...
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New York's high court upholds requiring insurance to cover medically necessary abortions

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New York's high court has upheld a rule requiring companies with health insurance plans to cover medically necessary abortions
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Special counsel suspected additional obstruction effort by Trump in docs case

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The special counsel appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Trump to obstruct the government's classified documents probe, according to a filing.
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West Virginia transgender athlete defeated girls in track events over 700 times, new legal filing says

  • News source: FOX News
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A new court filing in a lawsuit against the Biden administration for its overhaul of Title IX claims that a transgender track-and-field athlete at a West Virginia middle school displaced girls in competition over 700 times in three seasons.

On Thursday, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) a nonprofit civil rights firm, filed a motion asking the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the Biden administration's new Title IX rules from going into effect on Aug. 1, and to allow state laws that ban transgender athletes from playing on girls' sports teams...
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Spain recalls Argentina ambassador in Milei insult row

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Spain "definitively" recalls its ambassador to Argentina, in an escalating row with President Javier Milei.
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Rudy Giuliani in court again over 2020 election

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Arizona is the fourth US state to charge Trump allies for allegedly trying to overturn election results.
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