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Today's Political News Compilation - Thursday, May 23, 2024

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‘Green blitz': As election nears, Biden pushes slew of rules on environment, other priorities

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election-year rules on the environment and other topics, including a landmark regulation that would force coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or shut down.




























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Search of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect's home on Long Island enters its 5th day

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Investigators in the New York City suburbs continue to scour the home of a Manhattan architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings
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Caleb Carr, military historian and author of best-selling novel "The Alienist," dies at 68

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Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of Beat poet Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a best-selling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat Masha, has died
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Efforts to draft a pandemic treaty falter as countries disagree on how to respond to next emergency

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A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic
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Missouri attorney general race emerges as new front in GOP civil war

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Missouri's Republican attorney general primary is pitting incumbent Andrew Bailey against Will Scharf, a lawyer for Donald Trump.
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First Black female pilot for Air Force, United Airlines lands final flight

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Theresa Claiborne has retired after 43 years of flying, first in the U.S. Air Force then as a Captain at United Airlines. She was the first Black woman in both positions.
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Judge bars prosecutors from using some salacious evidence in Hunter Biden's gun trial

  • News source: FOX News
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The judge presiding over Hunter Biden's federal gun case in Delaware on Friday ruled that prosecutors on Special Counsel David Weiss' team cannot use some salacious evidence in the first son's criminal trial next month, including references to his U.S. Navy discharge and the child support case for his out-of-wedlock daughter in Arkansas.

The court met for its final hearing before jury selection begins on June 3. Fox News has previously reported that prosecutors planned to use portions of his book and laptop, including photos, to convince a jury...
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Trump continues to demonize migrants, falsely claims they're 'building an army'

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Trump ratcheted up his anti-immigrant rhetoric at a rally in the South Bronx, where he claimed, without evidence, that migrants coming to the U.S. are forming an "army."
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George Floyd's brother haunted by nightmares about his murder 4 years later

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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George Floyd's family is still grieving, four years after he was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer.

"(It's) absolutely hell," sister-in-law, Keeta Floyd tells CBS News. "They don't realize the things that are going on behind the scenes, for every life that has been lost since the death of George Floyd. It's extremely painful. It's a wound that never heals."

Several members of the Floyd family joined members of the Congressional Black Caucus this week for the reintroduction of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. The measure, sponsored...
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Lawmaker says daughter, son-in-law killed in Haiti: 'My heart is broken'

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Missouri state representative Ben Baker said his daughter and son-in-law were killed while serving as missionaries in Haiti.
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Taxpayers still on hook for COVID-shuttered ICE facility amid objections by blue state lawmaker

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Federal officials are again extending an evaluation of a mostly shuttered California detention center that can house thousands of illegal immigrants, with one lawmaker demanding the facility re-open amid continued costs.

"Although the Administration ended the COVID-19 national emergency over a year ago, the Adelanto ICE Facility continues to be prohibited from processing new detainees, Rep Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., told Fox News Digital. "In this extension, ICE and DOJ must work to bring this facility fully online so we can detain and deport the...
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Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock dies at 53

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The film-maker famously lived on a diet of McDonald’s food for an entire month for the 2004 movie.
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No foul play in crash that killed president, Iran says

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Early report by Iranian military has ruled out criminal activity in helicopter crash that killed late president Raisi
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Pomp and drama as deposed Nigerian emir returns to throne

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Muhammadu Sanusi II is reinstated after being dethroned four years ago for "insubordination".
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5 years after rescue, hiker reflects on being lost in Hawaii forest for 17 days

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Five years after her dramatic rescue from Maui's Makawao Forest Reserve, Amanda Eller told ABC News she's continuing to heal from the traumatic experience.
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After Haley said she'd vote for Trump, Biden campaign met with her supporters

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Soon after former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley announced Wednesday she would vote for former President Donald Trump this November, the Biden campaign held a virtual meeting with her supporters on that very evening.

Several Haley supporters, including some of her former state leadership team and members of the "Women for Nikki" coalition, joined the call from across the country. The meeting was arranged by Richard Schwartz, the executive director of the anti-Trump Haley Voters Working Group.

The deputy political director of the Biden...
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