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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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WV Gov. Justice ends jail staffing state of emergency after nearly 2 years

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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Friday he is ending the state of emergency over staffing in the state Department of Corrections.

The Republican governor called on the state National Guard to help stop worker attrition at the state’s jails and prisons almost two years ago now. Last summer, the vacancy rate was more than 30%.

"We're just always proud to run to the fire," Gen. William E. Crane, Adjutant General of the West Virginia National Guard said during a briefing with the press Friday.

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Billionaire CEO Schwarzman changes course and backs Trump citing rising antisemitism as top concern

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Blackstone CEO and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman revealed on Friday that he will be supporting former President Donald Trump in 2024 after previously distancing himself from Trump leading into the GOP primary.

"I share the concern of most Americans that our economic, immigration and foreign policies are taking the country in the wrong direction," Schwarzman told Fox News Digital in a statement that was first reported by Axios on Friday.

"For these reasons, I am planning to vote for change and support Donald Trump for President. In addition, I will...
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Hunter Biden defense team questions who actually filled out the key gun form

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Hunter Biden's defense attorney, Abbe Lowell, seemed to telegraph a key element of his defense strategy in a Delaware federal court Friday about who exactly filled out the key federal gun form in question in the case.

The heart of the government’s case is Hunter Biden checking a box on a government form, specifically Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) form 4473, which stated he was not using or addicted to drugs at the time he was buying a gun.

There are two versions of the particular form that Biden filled out. The first was...
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US teen arrested for melee at UCLA Gaza protest

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The arrest of 18-year-old Edan On marks the first arrest of a counter-protester linked to the chaos.
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Three more Israeli hostages' bodies found in Gaza

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The three male victims were among 252 people taken hostage when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October.
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Blackstone Chief Stephen Schwarzman Says He Will Back Trump

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Stephen A. Schwarzman, the billionaire chairman and chief executive of the Blackstone Group, said he would back former President Donald J. Trump in the 2024 election, a reversal from his call for a “new generation of leaders” after the midterm elections.

“The dramatic rise of antisemitism has led me to focus on the consequences of upcoming elections with greater urgency,” Mr. Schwarzman, who is Jewish, said in a statement on Friday.

He also said that he was backing Mr. Trump because he believed “our economic, immigration and foreign policies are...
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Uvalde families sue makers of AR-15, 'Call of Duty,' Meta over mass shooting

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Families of the Uvalde victims have filed a lawsuit against Daniel Defense, and Activision over what they claim was their role in promoting the gun used in the shooting.
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Governor signs bill classifying abortion pills as controlled substances into law

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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said Friday he has signed a bill making abortion pills controlled substances into law.
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"Sedition Panda" convicted of assaulting officer on Jan. 6

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Jesse James Rumson, the man who dressed in a panda costume as he took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, has been convicted of assaulting a law enforcement officer, according to court documents.

Earlier this month, Rumson waived his right to a jury trial, opting instead for bench trial. He was convicted on all eight counts by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols Friday for assaulting and resisting Prince George's County Cpl. Scott Ainsworth and for broader disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds. Rumson is scheduled to be sentenced in...
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Fox News Politics: Hunter Under the Gun

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Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail.

What's happening?

- Judge in Hunter Biden's gun case rules on evidence permitted at trial

- Governors tell Biden not to let WHO rule their states

- Fani Willis defends herself

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 of the more salacious evidence in the first son's criminal trial next month...
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Nearly half of all US governors urge drastic change for global health organization before new pandemic hits

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Two dozen Republican governors don't want the World Health Organization (WHO) to call the shots in the case of another global pandemic, according to a letter they sent to President Biden this week.

Currently, there are two proposals under negotiation that would grant WHO "unprecedented and unconstitutional" authority in the U.S., according to the Republican Governors Association.

"If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global authority in public health," the letter stated. "Under the proposed...
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Top House Republican launches probe into failed breach of military base by illegal immigrants

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FIRST ON FOX: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is investigating the circumstances surrounding two Jordanian nationals who breached a military base in Virginia after they were both revealed to be illegal immigrants.

Jordan has written to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the May 3 incident when, officials say, the two nationals in a box truck were stopped at a gate. The driver allegedly told military police officers they were making a delivery to the post office and worked for a company subcontracted by Amazon.

"It was at that...
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SCOTUS Chief Roberts pressured to force Alito recusal ahead of Trump immunity decision

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is facing pressure to ensure that Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from any 2020 election-related cases in the wake of controversy over flags flown at his two homes around the time of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

"By displaying the upside-down and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flags outside his homes, Justice Alito actively engaged in political activity, failed to avoid the appearance of impropriety, and failed to act in a manner that promotes public confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary," wrote...
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Lindsey Graham tells UN International Court of Justice to 'go to hell' over ruling against Israel

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the United Nations’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) "can go to hell" after the body ordered Israel to halt its military operations in southern Gaza.

"As far as I’m concerned, the ICJ can go to hell," he wrote Friday on X. "It is long past time to stand up to these so-called international justice organizations associated with the UN."

"The ICJ’s ruling that Israel should stop operations that are necessary to destroy four battalions of Hamas killers and terrorists – who use Palestinians as human shields – is...
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Justice Sotomayor Describes Frustration With Being a Liberal on the Supreme Court

  • News source: Abbie VanSickle
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Some days, after Justice Sonia Sotomayor listens to the Supreme Court announce its decisions, she goes into her chambers, shuts the door and weeps.

“There are days that I’ve come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried,” Justice Sotomayor told a crowd on Friday at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, where she was being honored. “There have been those days. And there are likely to be more.”

The comments about the challenges of being a liberal on a court dominated by conservatives came at the tail end of a...
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