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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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Life-size family photos win top prize

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Lebohang Kganye has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for her exhibition Haufi nyana? I've come to take you home
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AOC, 'baby girl' Marjorie Taylor Greene trade barbs in fiery Garland hearing: 'Are your feelings hurt?'

  • News source: FOX News
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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marjorie Taylor Greene had a heated exchange Thursday evening during what was supposed to be a contempt hearing for Attorney General Merrick Garland.

The House Oversight Committee had originally been convened to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena to hand over an audio recording of President Biden’s interview with a special counsel.

The hearing quickly spiraled out of control, with lawmakers bickering with one another. Less than an hour after the hearing was...
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Scientists may have solved mystery behind Egypt's pyramids

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Scientists say the ancient wonders are likely to have been built along a now-dried up branch of the River Nile.
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At the scene of Slovak PM's shooting

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from the town of Handlova, on what the attack could mean for Slovakia's divided society.
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Reddit shares jump after OpenAI ChatGPT deal

  • News source: BBC News - World
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OpenAI and Reddit reach deal that will give ChatGPT access to content on the social media platform.
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How Rich Candidates Burned Cash on Running for Office

  • News source: Chris Cameron and Maggie Astor
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The costly realm of campaign politics has claimed its share of the fortunes of yet another business magnate with aspirations to higher office.

Representative David Trone, Democrat of Maryland who co-owns the largest wine retailer in the country, poured more than $60 million of his personal fortune into his Senate campaign in Maryland, according to campaign finance reports filed to the Federal Election Commission. He lost the Democratic primary this week to Angela Alsobrooks, a county executive whose campaign had spent about a tenth of that amount...
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pressed on questions over friend's $267,000 RV loan

  • News source: Josephine Rozzelle,CNBC and Rebecca Picciotto,CNBC
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Two leading Democratic senators are pressing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to reveal whether he repaid a wealthy friend any of the principal for a $267,230 loan he used to buy a luxury motorhome.

The letter to Thomas' lawyer, dated Tuesday, raises questions about potential tax violations by the conservative justice, who is the longest-serving member of the Supreme Court.

Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., in their letter, assert that Thomas never repaid a significant portion of the principal loaned to him by his friend...
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Girlfriend of US Airman killed by Florida deputy speaks out

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The girlfriend of U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson, who was on the phone with Fortson when he was killed, is speaking out about the May 3 incident.
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U.S. announces effort to expedite cases of migrants who cross border illegally

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Biden administration on Thursday announced an effort to shorten the time it takes for U.S. immigration judges to decide the asylum cases of certain migrants who enter the country illegally along the border with Mexico.

Migrant adults released by federal border officials after crossing into the U.S. unlawfully will be eligible to be placed in the program, under a joint initiative between the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, which oversees the nation's immigration courts.

The effort's objective, senior U.S. officials...
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Missourians head to Washington to call for a House vote on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

  • News source: FOX News
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The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expires this summer. The initial bill passed the Senate earlier this year but has yet to be considered in the House. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has been pushing to expand and extend the initiative and has tried to add it as an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) bill.

"If we're not going to get amendment votes, I'm not going to help them speed this along," Hawley told reporters about the FAA legislation.

The bill is just one effort that residents in Missouri say, would help those sickened...
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US senator Bob Menendez reveals wife's cancer amid bribery trial

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Bob Menendez said his spouse and co-defendant would undergo a mastectomy following her diagnosis.
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Morehouse College prepares for Biden's commencement address

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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When he gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, President Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war at a center of Black politics and culture.

Morehouse is located in Atlanta, the largest city in the swing state of Georgia, which Biden flipped from then-President Donald Trump four years ago. Biden's speech Sunday will come as the Democrat tries to make inroads with a key and symbolic constituency — young Black men — and repair the diverse coalition that elected him to the...
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American doctors uncertain how they will leave Gaza: A day in their life

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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As the Israeli military fight against Hamas continues in the Gazan city of Rafah, thousands are being forced to evacuate and several U.S. citizens are still inside.
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Alaska lawmakers end their session with late bills passing on energy, education

  • News source: FOX News
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Alaska lawmakers ended their four-month session early Thursday with a flurry of last-minute bills addressing priority issues such as energy and correspondence school programs that are a focus of ongoing litigation.

Bickering over the budget was muted compared with prior years, and Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy and legislative leaders claimed successes in a session that was not without drama, marked by twofailed attempts to override Dunleavy vetoes of additional public school funding.

ALASKA LAWMAKERS FAIL TO OVERRIDE OF GOV. DUNLEAVY'S VETO OF...
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Virginia Gov Glenn Youngkin calls out Biden for refusal of VSU presidential debate: ‘Huge snub’

  • News source: FOX News
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin called out President Biden for refusing to participate in a debate originally scheduled by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) for Oct. 1 at Virginia State University (VSU), which would have been the first historically Black college or university (HBCU) to host a presidential debate.

"The Biden campaign is refusing to participate in a historic general election presidential debate at [VSU], a great university and HBCU," the Republican governor wrote in a post on X. "Joe Biden is turning his back on...
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