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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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House Panel Seeks F.B.I. Investigation Into Doping by Chinese Swimmers

  • News source: Michael S. Schmidt and Tariq Panja
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The House select committee on China has asked the Justice Department and F.B.I. to investigate reports that Chinese authorities covered up positive doping tests for nearly half the swim team it sent to the last Olympic Games and that the global antidoping regulator failed to take action.

In a letter sent late Tuesday, the committee asked that the authorities use a law passed in 2020 in the wake of another doping scandal, involving Russia, that gives the Justice Department the power to criminally prosecute those who help athletes dope at...
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White House accuses GOP of siding 'with fentanyl traffickers' by opposing border bill

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: The White House is taking aim at congressional Republicans, claiming that the GOP "sided with fentanyl traffickers’ by opposing a bipartisan border deal earlier this year -- days before the bill is again due to hit the Senate, where it will likely face stiff GOP opposition.

The White House is touting the legislation, which would provide funding for border operations, and includes a mechanism to stop entries into the U.S. when encounters reach a certain level. The bill failed a test vote in February, by a vote of 49-50, short of the 60...
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Watch: Inside wrecked plane after massive turbulence

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Footage shows injured passengers, items strewn across the floor and oxygen masks dangling.
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Biden Administration Cancels Another $7.7 Billion in Student Loans

  • News source: Zach Montague
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President Biden announced on Wednesday the cancellation of $7.7 billion in student loans held by 160,000 borrowers, building on his strategy of chipping away at college debt by tweaking existing programs as his administration pursues a larger forgiveness plan.

Many borrowers in this round — who qualified through public service loan forgiveness, the president’s SAVE plan or another income-driven repayment plan — have already begun receiving emails notifying them of their approvals, the Education Department said in a statement.

The steady drumbeat of...
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Fraud Trial to Begin for Chinese Billionaire Who Allied Himself With America’s Right

  • News source: Michael Forsythe
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Four years ago, Guo Wengui, a prominent Chinese property developer, announced the imminent end of Communist rule and the formation of the New Federal State of China.

The setting wasn’t Beijing, or anywhere close to China, but a boat in New York Harbor. He was joined by Steve Bannon, the right-wing firebrand and former adviser to President Trump. Another Trump aide, Peter Navarro, would be declared the shadow government’s “international ambassador.”

“From this day forward, the Communist Party is not the legal government of China!” he shouted in...
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Schumer Plans Vote on Contraception Access, Teeing Up a Campaign Issue

  • News source: Annie Karni
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Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, plans next month to fast-track a Senate vote on a bill to protect access to contraception nationwide, the start of an election-year push to highlight Republicans’ record of opposing reproductive rights that voters view as at risk of being stripped away.

The Right to Contraception Act is expected to be blocked in the closely divided Senate, where most Republicans are against it. But a vote on the bill is a crucial plank of Democrats’ strategy as they seek to protect their majority...
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Inside the Life of Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.’s Running Mate

  • News source: Kirsten Grind
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When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was considering potential running mates for his presidential run, his shortlist was initially topped by two well-known men with unusual résumés: Aaron Rodgers, the N.F.L. quarterback and frequent purveyor of conspiracy theories, and Jesse Ventura, the former governor of Minnesota and professional wrestler known as “The Body.”

Instead, Mr. Kennedy made a surprise pick — a woman and a little-known figure with an unusual background: Nicole Shanahan.

Ms. Shanahan, 38, a onetime Silicon Valley lawyer, has never held public...
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Spain, Ireland and Norway will recognize a Palestinian state on May 28.

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Spain, Ireland and Norway have said that they will recognize a Palestinian state on May 28, a step toward a long-held Palestinian aspiration that came amid international outrage over the civilian death toll and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip fol...
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Cornel West joins DC reparations protest against Wells Fargo Bank

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: Unaffiliated presidential candidate Cornel West joined a group of protesters picketing in front of Wells Fargo Bank in downtown Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon – bolstering their demands for reparations. West, who was initially running under the People's Party banner before electing to run as an Independent, spoke to Fox News Digital after stopping by to offer support for the protesters.

West's interaction with the assembled demonstrators suggested he joined the protest on a short deadline, as he said he planned to travel to...
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Biden blasted by experts for repeating 'debunked lie' to Black students at HBCU graduation: 'Factually false'

  • News source: FOX News
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President Biden has faced a storm of criticism on social media and by experts over the past few days for repeating what many have labeled a lie about Georgia’s election law that was implemented several years ago.

"Today in Georgia, they won't allow water to be available to you while you wait in line to vote in an election," Biden told the graduating class at Morehouse College, a historically Black university in Atlanta, over the weekend. "What in the hell is that all about?"

"It’s 2024," Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office posted...
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GOP AGs ask SCOTUS to hear Mexico's lawsuit blaming US gun manufacturers for cartel violence

  • News source: FOX News
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A cohort of 27 top Republican prosecutors have filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court, asking it to take up a case brought by the Mexican government that seeks to hold American gun manufacturers responsible for gun violence at the hands
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Norway, Ireland and Spain recognize a Palestinian state in a historic move

  • News source: The Associated Press
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Norway, Ireland and Spain recognized a Palestinian state on Wednesday in a historic move that drew condemnation from Israel and jubilation from the Palestinians. Israel ordered back its ambassadors from Norway and Ireland.

It was a lightning cascade of announcements. First was Norway, whose Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said “there cannot be peace in the Middle East if there is no recognition.”

Gahr Støre said the Scandinavian country will officially recognize a Palestinian state as of May 28. “By recognizing a Palestinian state, Norway supports...
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Zhang Zhan, imprisoned for 'provoking trouble' reporting on COVID in China, released

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist, has been released from a Chinese prison after serving four years for charges related to reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China
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Michael Cohen swore he had nothing derogatory on Trump, his ex-lawyer says – another lie – as testimony ends

  • News source: FOX News
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The prosecution and defense rested yesterday, meaning, to no one’s shock, that Donald Trump did not testify.

Trump had said he would, but it would have been judicial malpractice for his lawyers to expose him to a hundred different lines of interrogation.

Michael Cohen went into the hush money trial with a well-established reputation as a convicted liar.

We all knew he would be hammered on cross-examination for lying on behalf of Trump, lying to Congress, lying to investigators and lying to the press. That was baked into the equation...
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Ireland and Norway to recognise Palestinian state, with Spain to follow

  • News source: BBC News - World
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  • Views: 9
Israel's foreign ministry has warned the move will "fuel extremism and instability".
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