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Today's Political News Compilation - Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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Biden and Trump, trading barbs, agree to 2 presidential debates, in June and September

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for their first presidential face-off to play out in just over a month.


























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Trump appeals gag order in New York "hush money" trial

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Former President Donald Trump is seeking to have New York's highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial.

The former president's lawyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, a day after the state's mid-level appellate court refused his request to lift or modify the restrictions. The filing was listed on a court docket, but the document itself was sealed and not available...
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North Carolina lawmakers push bill to ban most public mask wearing, citing crime

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by demonstrations against the war in Gaza that have included ...
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UC Irvine protest escalates as demonstrators occupy building, police make arrests

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Protesters entered the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall on the UC Irvine campus on Wednesday.
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Could the US economy be doing too well?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The US economic boom has consequences for the global balance of power - and for the UK.
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Putin in China to meet Xi as Ukraine looms large

  • News source: BBC News - World
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This is Putin's first visit after he won a fifth presidential term following an election where he ran virtually unopposed.
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France reels after double prison guard killing

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Many are pointing to the ultra-violence that has become hallmark of the country's drugs underworld.
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Crew trapped on Baltimore ship, weeks after bridge collapse

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Morale is low for the Dali's crew members, who are stranded on board by the ongoing investigation into the tragedy.
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France to deploy army to New Caledonia over riots

  • News source: BBC News - World
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At least four people, including a police officer, have been killed in the violence.
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Sen. Bob Menendez called corrupt, accused of trading power for gold and cash in trial's open

  • News source: Larry Neumeister and Mike Catalini
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At the start of his corruption trial in New York City, a federal jury was alternately introduced to Bob Menendez as a bribe-taking U.S. senator who betrayed his country, and as an American patriot.

A prosecutor and a defense lawyer delivered contrasting visions of the once-powerful Democrat and the senior senator from New Jersey. Central to the openings from both the government and the senator's advocate in Manhattan federal court was Nadine Menendez, a woman the Democrat began dating in early 2018 before marrying her two years later and moving into...
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148 House Democrats vote against bill to deport migrants who assault cops

  • News source: FOX News
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A bill aimed at booting illegal immigrants out of the U.S. if they assault a police officer passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening.

It's one of several pieces of legislation that House Republican leaders are putting up for a vote this week as part of national Police Week.

The bill passed in a 265 to 148 vote with 54 Democrats voting with the GOP.

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The bill is called the Detain and Deport Illegal Aliens Who Assault Cops Act and is led...
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Michael Cohen once swore Trump wasn't involved in Stormy Daniels payment, his ex-attorney testifies

  • News source: FOX News
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A lawyer who formerly advised Michael Cohen claims the ex-Trump attorney said the former president had nothing to do with a hush money payment made to pornographic performer Stormy Daniels and that Cohen took care of the arrangement himself.
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Republicans team up to defeat longtime 'restriction' targeting gun owners: 'Violation of the Second Amendment'

  • News source: FOX News
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Afghan floods: ‘I found my family's bodies in the street’

  • News source: BBC News - World
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As deadly flash floods hit Afghanistan, whole families and their homes have been swept away.
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The man who turned his dead father into a chatbot

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The "grief tech" firms helping users create talking avatars of their dead relatives.
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