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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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Trump continues to demonize migrants, falsely claims they're 'building an army'

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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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'

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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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

  • News source: FOX News
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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

  • News source: BBC News - World
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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

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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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.

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Rapper Sean Kingston arrested following raid at Florida mansion: Sheriff

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Rapper Sean Kingston was arrested in California following a SWAT raid of his rented South Florida mansion, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said on Thursday.
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40,000-year-old mammoth bones discovered in wine cellar

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The Stone Age fossils were discovered by a winemaker in Austria while renovating his cellar.
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GA lawmaker probing Fani Willis says more hearings to come after ‘credible’ witness testimony

  • News source: FOX News
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A Georgia state senator spearheading the probe into the Fulton County district attorney's office says some of District Attorney Fani Willis' claims about her relationship are "dubious" after one whistleblower's testimony.

On Thursday, the Georgia Senate Special Committee on Investigations, chaired by Republican state Sen. Bill Cowsert, held its fourth hearing as part of its investigation into Willis' alleged misconduct and misuse of funds.

Amanda Timpson, who once served as Willis’ director of juvenile diversion programs, testified that she was...
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Top UN court orders Israel to stop Rafah offensive

  • News source: BBC News - World
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In a dramatic move, the court supported a South African request to get Israel to halt its operation.
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No sign Israel will change course after Gaza ruling

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israel condemns a ruling by the International Court of Justice ordering it to stop its offensive.
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No foul play in crash that killed president, Iran says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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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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