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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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Ex-employee fatally shoots 2 at linen company in Pennsylvania, police say

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Authorities say a former employee armed with a handgun opened fire at a linen company in a Philadelphia suburb, killing two people and wounding three others
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Use of Wegovy and other weight-loss drugs soars among kids and young adults

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Use of diabetes and obesity medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and other so-called GLP-1 drugs has soared among teens and young adults
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Tennessee judge blocks effort to sell Graceland

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Elvis Presley's home of Graceland will not be hitting the auction block on Thursday after all.
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Utah woman describes 'terror' at seeing stepson beaten after DRC coup attempt

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Miranda Thompson told ABC News that her stepson Tyler Thompson, who grew up in West Jordan, Utah, traveled to South Africa last month.
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DOJ urged to 'take immediate action' to prosecute Michael Cohen over string of alleged lies

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is demanding that the Justice Department "take immediate action" to prosecute ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen for making false statements and admitting to stealing during the unprecedented criminal trial of former President Trump.

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a letter Emmer, R-Minn., sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland Wednesday, urging the DOJ "take immediate action" on the multiple criminal referrals from congressional committees related to alleged lies Cohen has told Congress. Emmer also...
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'Insult to injury': Florida lawmakers erupt over Cuban officials touring secure parts of top airport

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: Florida lawmakers in Congress are calling for answers from the Department of Homeland Security about a tour of secure areas of Miami International Airport by federal officials -- which has raised national security concerns from both local and national lawmakers and Democrats as well as Republicans.

"You are taking agents from a country which is on the list of state sponsors of terrorism. And you're showing them our procedures and our equipment and our sensitive areas that protect the American public from terrorism. So how does that...
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Fauci adviser's alleged destruction of COVID origin docs must be probed by AG: Rand Paul

  • News source: FOX News
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Sen. Rand Paul is calling on the Justice Department to probe whether a top adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci improperly concealed, and perhaps even destroyed, documents pertaining to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Kentucky Republican is formally calling for an investigation into accusations of improper concealment and destruction of COVID-19 origin records by Dr. David Morens in a letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday.

The letter, citing emails obtained by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic...
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RNC evacuated due to suspicious package containing vials of blood

  • News source: FOX News
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DOJ sues pro-life activists, alleging interference with abortion clinic access

  • News source: FOX News
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The Justice Department is suing two pro-life organizations and seven activists for allegedly blocking access to an abortion clinic in Ohio in 2021.

The civil suit was filed on Monday in the Northern District of Ohio against Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, a Michigan-based charity, Red Rose Rescue, whose website is operated by the charity’s president and solicits donations, as well as the activists who allegedly blocked access to two Ohio clinics that provide abortions. The two incidents took place on June 4 and 5, 2021.

Prosecutors argue that the...
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The impact of recognising a Palestinian state

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Declarations by Ireland, Spain and Norway will put pressure on other countries in Europe.
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Baltic concerns over Russian plan to move sea borders

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Finland and the Baltic states react to a Russian proposal to redraw sea borders dating back 40 years.
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World's most expensive feather sold at auction

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The feather, from now extinct New Zealand huia bird, broke the previous record by more than four times.
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UN halts Rafah food distribution due to shortages and hostilities

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A UN agency says its stores are inaccessible because of an Israeli operation in the south Gaza city.
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Judge in Trump classified documents case to hear arguments on request to dismiss charges

  • News source: Eric Tucker and Terry Spencer | Associated Press
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump are due in court Wednesday for the first time since the judge indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month.

The case, among four criminal prosecutions against Trump, had been set for trial on May 20 but U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon cited numerous issues she has yet to resolve as a basis for canceling the trial date.

On Wednesday, Cannon was scheduled to hear arguments on a Trump request to dismiss the indictment on grounds that it...
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US existing home sales drop 1.9% in April, pushed lower by high rates and high prices

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes sank last month, pushed down by high mortgage rates and rising prices
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