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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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Uvalde families sue makers of AR-15, 'Call of Duty,' Meta over mass shooting

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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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

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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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

  • News source: FOX News
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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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Lloyd Austin to Undergo Procedure to Address Bladder Issue

  • News source: Eric Schmitt
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Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III will undergo a nonsurgical procedure on Friday night to address a bladder issue, and during the hospitalization will temporarily turn over duties to his deputy, the Pentagon said on Friday.

“The secretary has determined he will be temporarily unable to perform his functions and duties during the procedure, so Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks will assume the functions and duties of the secretary of defense,” the Pentagon said in statement.

Mr. Austin will undergo “a scheduled, elective and minimally...
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At Bronx Rally, Trump Turns to Drill Rappers Accused in Murder Plot

  • News source: Michael Gold and Joe Coscarelli
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Toward the end of a rally in the Bronx on Thursday that his campaign staged to try to bolster and highlight his support among Black and Hispanic voters, former President Donald J. Trump called upon two hip-hop artists who have been accused of participating in violent gang warfare fueled in part by their music.

The rappers, Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow, were among several guests invited to voice their support for Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. After they did so, Mr. Trump expressed his gratitude, and then complimented Sheff...
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‘Sedition Panda' convicted of assaulting officer on Jan. 6 after judge calls defense argument ‘absurd'

  • News source: Ryan J. Reilly | NBC News
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A Jan. 6 rioter dubbed "Sedition Panda" for the costume head he wore when he stormed the Capitol has been convicted on each of the eight charges he faced, including assaulting a police officer, according to NBC News.

Jesse James Rumson was convicted Friday of assaulting Prince George’s County Cpl. Scott Ainsworth, a lifelong Republican who testified about the Jan. 6 riot during Rumson's trial last week.

Ainsworth testified that it was difficult to come to grips with being attacked by members of his own party. “I’m a Republican, these are my fellow...
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Judge in Hunter Biden's gun case makes rulings on evidence

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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In a final hearing before Hunter Biden is set to go on trial in Delaware for gun charges, a judge made some vital rulings that will determine what evidence the jury will see during the proceedings that are set to begin on June 3, clearing the way for some contents from a laptop that he left at a Delaware repair shop as well as evidence about his drug use to be shown.

Hunter Biden's attorneys have argued that some of the material on the laptop is not authentic, but prosecutors pushed back Thursday, alleging they haven't presented any evidence of...
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Notre Dame cathedral cross reinstalled in Paris amid restoration efforts

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, has been reinstalled atop the cathedral’s framework after a meticulous restoration by artistic ironworkers from Normandy
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Defense Secretary Austin to undergo procedure, transfer duties to deputy

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will undergo a procedure related to the bladder issue that prompted his hospitalization earlier this year, the Department of Defense said Friday afternoon.

The department called it a "scheduled, elective and minimally invasive" procedure that will take place at Walter Reed Medical Center later Friday, according to a statement.

Austin will transfer his duties temporarily to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, the department said.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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