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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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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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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to undergo nonsurgical procedure, Deputy Kathleen Hicks will assume control

  • News source: FOX News
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will undergo a nonsurgical procedure Friday evening at Walter Reed Medical Center as a follow-up for a bladder issue he had earlier this year, the Pentagon said in a release.

The procedure is unrelated to his cancer diagnosis.

The Pentagon said the White House and Congress have been notified, and that Austin will be temporarily unable to perform his duties during the procedure.

As a result, "Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks will assume the functions and duties of the Secretary of Defense, and serve as the...
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lllegal immigrants tired of waiting for Border Patrol agents get away using ride-hailing app

  • News source: FOX News
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Illegal immigrants crossing into the United States at the southern border were spotted calling for rides from Lyft as they grew tired of waiting for Border Patrol agents to come pick them up.

Fox News was on the ground in Jacumba, California, observing migrants who had come in across the southern border, and were waiting for several hours to be picked up and processed by Border Patrol agents.

Some Colombians got sick of waiting for the feds to come pick them up, so they called a ride on the ride-sharing app and hopped in the car when it arrived...
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Clarence Thomas takes aim at 'judicial power' in landmark Brown v Board of Education decision

  • News source: FOX News
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Justice Clarence Thomas, in the court's latest decision upholding a GOP-drawn redistricting map in South Carolina, took aim at a key, decades-old civil rights decision, calling it an "extravagant [use] of judicial power."

On Thursday, the Supreme Court sided with the Republican-led South Carolina legislature after it was challenged for alleged racial gerrymandering in drawing new redistricting maps.

In a 6-3 decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, the high court said that "a party challenging a map’s constitutionality must disentangle race and...
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'I just want what the white people have' - what happened to Cynthia's dream in South Africa

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The BBC's Fergal Keane returns to South Africa to follow up on a woman's story that stuck with him for over 30 years.
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CCTV reveals lion taking dog from family home

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Jaci the rottweiler had been with the family for nearly two years and leaves her twin Laser behind.
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U.A.W. Seeks a New Election at Mercedes-Benz Plants in Alabama

  • News source: Jack Ewing
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A week after losing a hard-fought election at two Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama, the United Automobile Workers asked federal officials on Friday to order a new vote, saying the German carmaker violated labor laws to suppress support for the union.

Mercedes-Benz conducted a “relentless anti-union campaign” marked by “wanton lawlessness,” the U.A.W. said in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board. Among other things, the union said, Mercedes fired four employees who supported the union, prevented pro-union employees from campaigning and...
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Are These Drones Too Chinese to Pass U.S. Muster in an Anti-China Moment?

  • News source: Kate Kelly
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A one-man startup believes it has an answer to U.S. government concerns over the Chinese-made drones that dominate commercial sales in the American market.

Anzu Robotics’s chief executive and founding partners are all American, and the company’s headquarters is in Texas. The company’s drones, which are expected to be used by law enforcement agencies, utilities, architects and others, are assembled in Malaysia, and they run on servers sitting in Virginia.

There’s just one problem: Anzu has multiple close ties to China and to DJI, the Shenzhen-based...
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CDC preparing for 'possibility of increased risk to human health' from bird flu

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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In an alert on Friday, the CDC said it is preparing for the "possibility of increased risk to human health" from bird flu.
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Senate Democrats seek meeting with chief justice after Alito flag controversy

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin and subcommittee head Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse are seeking a meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts to discuss ethics issues at the Supreme Court after reports of flags flown outside Justice Samuel Alito's homes sparked outrage.

The request from Durbin and Whitehouse, both Democrats, comes on the heels of a pair of reports from the New York Times that revealed an upside down flag flew outside Justice Samuel Alito's Virginia home in mid-January 2021, and an "Appeal to Heaven" flag was...
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Search of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect's home on Long Island enters its 5th day

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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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

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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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

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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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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