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Today's Political News Compilation - Wednesday, May 22, 2024

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Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will be voting for Donald Trump in the general election, encouraging the presumptive GOP nominee to work hard to win support from those who backed her in the primary.

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Nikki Haley says she will vote for Donald Trump following their disputes during Republican primary

Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will be voting for Donald Trump in the general election, a notable show of support given their intense and often personal rivalry during the Republican primary calendar.

But Haley also made it clear that she feels Trump has work to do to win over voters who supported her during the course of the primary campaign and continue to cast votes for her in ongoing primary contests.
























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NCAA, leagues back $2.8 billion settlement, setting stage for dramatic change across college sports

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The NCAA and five major college sports conferences have agreed to settle antitrust allegations for nearly $2.8 billion over the next 10 years
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Judge in "hush money" trial rejects Trump request to sanction prosecutors

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Manhattan prosecutors won't be penalized for a last-minute document dump that caused former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial to start later than scheduled, a judge ruled Thursday.

Judge Juan Merchan rejected the defense's request that prosecutors be sanctioned for a deluge of nearly 200,000 pages of evidence just weeks before the trial's scheduled start. The documents were from a previous federal investigation into the matter.

Merchan agreed to delay the start of the trial from March 25 to April 15 to allow the former president's...
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul calls Trump supporters ‘clowns’ in her own 'basket of deplorables' moment

  • News source: FOX News
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared to call Trump supporters "clowns" on Thursday during a media appearance ahead of the former president’s New York City rally in the Bronx.

"Well, I’ll tell you what won’t make a difference at all, Jake, and that’s for Donald Trump to be a ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like the Bronx," ochul told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

She continued, "New York will never, ever support Donald Trump for president. We know him better than anyone and that means we understand what he’s all about. He’s just for himself...
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Trump vows to 'save' deep-blue New York City in massive, historic Bronx rally

  • News source: FOX News
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NEW YORK – Former President Donald Trump has broken political norms by visiting one of the most deep-blue areas in New York City, a town not necessarily known for its kindness to Republicans.

Trump rallied a crowd of what his campaign estimated to be 25,000 supporters at Crotona Park in the Bronx on Thursday, far more than the initial 3,500 it said were expected to attend. Those numbers appeared to also include those lined up outside the event.

"I'm here tonight to declare we are going to turn New York City around, and we are going to turn it...
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Harvard students stage walkout at graduation ceremony

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The demonstration was in support of 13 students barred from graduating after taking part in Gaza campus protests.
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I couldn't bury my brother because of Sudan bombing

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El Fasher residents in the firing line as satellite images show camp targeted by paramilitary fighters.
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At a Trump Rally in the Bronx, Chants of ‘Build the Wall’

  • News source: Michael Gold
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Nearing the end of the criminal trial that has kept him in New York City for much of the last five weeks, former President Donald J. Trump held a rally in the Bronx on Thursday, where he made a litany of promises to improve New York, railed against the Biden administration and made overtures to Black and Latino voters.

Speaking to a more diverse crowd than is typical of his rallies, Mr. Trump lamented the surge of migrants across the southern border and criticized President Biden’s economic policies as disproportionately hurting people of color...
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Trump holds rally in Bronx park, says he's better for Black and Latino voters than Biden

  • News source: Michelle L. Price and Jill Colvin
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Former President Donald Trump campaigned Thursday in one of the most Democratic counties in the nation, holding a rally in the Bronx as he tries to woo minority voters days before a Manhattan jury will begin deliberations on whether to convict him of felony charges in his criminal hush money trial.

Trump addressed supporters in Crotona Park, a public green space in a neighborhood that is among the city's most diverse and its most impoverished, a change from the majority-white areas where he holds most of his rallies. While the crowd was not quite as...
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Florida law criminalizing transport of undocumented immigrants is blocked by lawsuit

  • News source: Nicole Acevedo | NBC News
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Farmworker and civil rights groups suing the state of Florida over a restrictive immigration law that criminalizes the transportation of undocumented persons into the state are praising the actions of a federal judge who temporarily blocked its enforcement.

U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump, blocked a section of the law Wednesday pending the outcome of the lawsuit filed last summer by the Farmworker Association of Florida and other immigrant and civil rights groups.

“This is a much-needed win...
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Rapper Sean Kingston's home raided by SWAT; mother arrested on fraud and theft charges

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A SWAT team has raided rapper Sean Kingston’s rented South Florida mansion and arrested his mother on fraud and theft charges
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Holocaust museum will host free field trips for eighth graders in New York City public schools

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A Holocaust museum in New York City will offer free educational field trips to eighth grade public school students in a program aimed at combating antisemitism
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Ex-day care worker convicted in death of 1-year-old girl left in van on scorching day

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A former Nebraska day care worker who mistakenly left a 1-year-old girl in a van for more than five hours on a scorching day has been convicted in her death from hyperthermia
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Massive wind farm proposal in Washington state gets new life from Gov. Jay Inslee

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has rejected a recommendation to cut a proposal for what would be the state’s largest wind farm in half, giving new life to the $1.7 billion project
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Hill aide interferes with Fox News camera crew during Tlaib interview

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "war criminal" on Thursday during fiery remarks that grew more contentious when a Capitol Hill staffer used an umbrella to obstruct a Fox News cameraman who was filming the exchange.

The unidentified aide is seen in video of the encounter repeatedly opening and closing his umbrella. The action interferes with the camera shot and at one point the umbrella seemingly makes contact with the operator, who witnesses say was hit in the face and upper body.

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Turkish migrant crossing US border says Americans are 'right' to be concerned: 'No security'

  • News source: FOX News
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A Turkish migrant, who told Fox News he paid around $10,000 to a cartel on his way to the United States, selling everything he owned, said Americans should be worried about the lack of security at the southern border.

The man told Fox News after crossing illegally into Jacumba, California, in San Diego County: "In fact, American people is right, completely true. Who comes into this country? They don’t know. OK, I’m good. But how if they’re not good? How if they’re killers, psychopath, else? No guarantee of that."

He added of crossing the border...
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