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Today's Political News Compilation - Thursday, May 16, 2024

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House Republicans ditch their day jobs to stand with Trump, while legislating languishes

Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have repeatedly thrown this Congress into chaos showed up Thursday at Donald Trump’s hush money trial to do what they do best.

They stood outside Trump Tower filming their support for the indicted former president. They filed into the Manhattan courthouse “standing back and standing by,” as Rep. Matt Gaetz put it — invoking Trump’s call to the extremist Proud Boys. They were admonished to put down their cell phones.


























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FBI testimony about search of Menendez's home continues

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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A day after jurors held the one-kilogram gold bars seized from Sen. Bob Menendez's home in their own hands, they'll hear more from the FBI agent who led the search of the New Jersey Democrat's home in June 2022.

Lawyers for Menendez will continue questioning FBI agent Aristotelis Kougemitros on Friday.

Kougemitros told prosecutors Thursday that his team mostly eschewed the "flashy" FBI trappings when they arrived at the split-level Englewood Cliffs home Menendez shares with his wife, Nadine, to execute a search warrant.

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US confirms first aid trucks arrive via Gaza pier

  • News source: BBC News - World
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It marks the opening of a new route for humanitarian aid to reach the stricken Gaza Strip.
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Israel accuses South Africa of false claims at ICJ

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israel's lawyers push back against South Africa, which is trying to get its Rafah offensive stopped.
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More French police arrive in New Caledonia amid riots

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The protests which erupted on Monday have so far injured hundreds of people and killed five.
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Trump lawyer accuses Cohen of lying in hush-money trial

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Tensions boil over on a heated day in court, as the ex-president’s lawyer assails the prosecution's star witness.
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Texas pardons man who shot Black Lives Matter protester

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Daniel Perry shot an armed protester in Austin during a protest in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
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Key weeks ahead for Russia’s war in Ukraine

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Russia has launched a push north of Kharkiv but its ultimate goal is so far unclear.
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Rare footage shows deep-sea squid attacking camera

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Watch video of the super-fast Dana squid launching itself at a deep-see camera.
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'Catastrophic': Inside Gaza's mental health crisis impacting civilians, aid workers

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Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, international organizations said there is "catastrophic" mental health crisis in Gaza affecting civilians and aid workers.
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Alec Baldwin pushes to dismiss manslaughter charge in hearing

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Alec Baldwin's motion to dismiss his involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of "Rust" will go before a judge on Friday.
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Yemen's Houthi rebels claim shooting down another US MQ-9 Predator drone

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Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed the shooting-down of an American drone, hours after footage circulated online of what appeared to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Predator drone
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Showdown: The blue states Trump aims to turn red in November

  • News source: FOX News
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It's been more than a half century since a Republican won Minnesota in a presidential election, but former President
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Trump to attend son's high school graduation Friday

  • News source: FOX News
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Former President Trump is attending youngest son Barron Trump’s high school graduation in Florida on Friday, a break from his criminal trial in New York City.

Barron Trump, 18, will graduate from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday. The graduation ceremony is private.

Barron Trump will go to college, but it is unclear which university he has selected. The former president has previously floated the possibility of his son attending his own alma mater, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where Ivanka Trump...
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Inside Donald Trump and Speaker Johnson's mutually beneficial relationship

  • News source: FOX News
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was in New York for various events when he reached out to former President Trump to inform him he would be at the Manhattan courthouse, where Trump's criminal trial was taking place the very next morning.

Johnson made the decision himself and contacted Trump directly, a source close to the speaker told Fox News Digital. Multiple people said he rode with Trump in his motorcade on Tuesday morning.

"I came here… today on my own to support President Trump because I am one of hundreds of millions of people and one citizen...
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They Supported Biden in 2020. What Made Them Change Their Minds in 2024?

  • News source: Claire Cain Miller, Bianca Pallaro, Ruth Igielnik
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Frederick Westbrook, a retired Las Vegas hotel worker, voted for President Biden in 2020 — as a vote to get Donald J. Trump out of office. He now calls that “the biggest mistake of my life.”

“As a Black man in America, I felt he was doing unjust things,” he said of Mr. Trump. “He’s got a big mouth, he’s not a nice person.” None of that, in his view, has changed. But one thing has.

“Everything is just about the economy,” said Mr. Westbrook, who has started driving for Lyft to support himself on a fixed income in retirement. “I don’t really trust...
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