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Today's Political News Compilation - Friday, May 24, 2024

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Kennedy blasts Biden, Trump over pandemic measures in pitch at Libertarian convention

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accused Joe Biden and Donald Trump Friday of trampling on personal liberties in response to the pandemic that spanned their presidencies.

Kennedy, who has long claimed to be a victim of government and media censorship of his unorthodox views, said Americans have lost faith in their leaders and institutions, and he pledged to restore it.

























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Top former California Republican has stark message for Biden as migrants infiltrate upscale beach town

  • News source: FOX News
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A former top Republican in California is sending a stark message to President Biden and his fellow Democrats as suspected illegal immigrants continue to infiltrate the area surrounding an upscale beach town nearly 100 miles from the southern border.

Scott Baugh, the former minority leader in the California State Assembly who is running to represent the state's 47th Congressional District, told Fox News Digital in an interview that it was because of Biden and his policies more Americans were now living as if they were on the border's edge.

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Jack Smith asks judge to restrict Trump statements after 'inflammatory' remarks about FBI raid

  • News source: FOX News
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Special Counsel Jack Smith asked a federal judge Friday to bar former President Donald Trump from characterizing the FBI's 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago as a threat to him and his family, arguing that the claims put law enforcement agents in danger.

In the motion filed to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the classified documents case in Florida, Smith requested Trump be prohibited from making statements that "pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case." Trump claimed in a campaign appeal that FBI agents were "locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger."

Court documents revealed this week that the FBI used its standard use-of-force policy that prohibits the use of deadly force except when the officer conducting the search has a reasonable belief that the "subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person."

"These deceptive and inflammatory claims expose the law enforcement professionals who are involved in this case to unjustified and unacceptable risks," Smith’s filing reads.

The FBI has said such contingencies are routine and that similar language was contained in an operational plan accompanying a subsequent search of President Biden's properties in Delaware.
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‘Sedition Panda,’ a Jan. 6 Rioter in a Costume Head, Is Convicted

  • News source: Orlando Mayorquín
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A Florida man who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while wearing a costume panda head was convicted on Friday of assaulting a police officer and other charges related to the events of that day.

The man, Jesse James Rumson, 38, who became known as Sedition Panda, was found guilty of eight total charges, two felonies and six misdemeanors, after a bench trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

He was convicted by Judge Carl J. Nichols, who has garnered his own headlines for challenging the Justice Department’s use of a...
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Louisiana governor signs bill to classify abortion pills as controlled substances

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Louisiana became the first state to classify two abortion-inducing medications as controlled substances, making possession of the pills without a prescription a crime.

Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed legislation that reclassifies misoprostol and mifepristone — a two-step regimen used to terminate early pregnancies — as Schedule IV drugs into law on Friday after it passed the state legislature earlier this week.

The measure puts the drugs in the same category as opioids, depressants and other drugs that can be addictive, making...
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine has taken back control in areas of embattled Kharkiv region

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region earlier this month
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Severe weather onslaught continues as big storms threaten holiday travel

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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There is a major severe weather threat in the Plains on Saturday with more than 8 million people across seven states facing the possibility for dangerous weather.
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Chile arrests firefighter for blaze that killed 137

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A forestry worker is also arrested and charged with arson over the fire - the country's deadliest.
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How Trump’s Trial Fueled His Presidential Campaign

  • News source: NYT > Politics
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Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial has had a profound impact on the 2024 presidential race. Jonathan Swan breaks down the politics of the case, and its galvanizing effect on the Republican Party base.
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Judge denies Alec Baldwin's bid to dismiss charge in deadly 'Rust' shooting

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Alec Baldwin was indicted by a grand jury on involuntary manslaughter in the "Rust" shooting earlier this year, after prosecutors previously dropped the charge.
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Biden to Deliver Commencement Address at West Point Military Academy

  • News source: Michael D. Shear
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President Biden will address the graduating class of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, on Saturday, delivering a commencement speech at a moment of military upheaval abroad, university protests at home and a looming White House rematch with former President Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Biden is expected to congratulate the Army’s newest officers, describe the global challenges facing the military and remind the cadets of the oath they took — not to the president, but to the Constitution, according to a person familiar with the speech who...
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How Donald Trump Still Lives in the 1980s

  • News source: Maggie Haberman
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When his criminal trial finishes for the day, Donald J. Trump typically returns to the marble-and-gold triplex atop Trump Tower, the high rise he built in the early 1980s and used to establish a public image as a master builder.

It is the silver lining for Mr. Trump, as he spends his first sustained period of time in Manhattan since he moved to Washington in 2017. He passes the days in a dingy courtroom downtown, where he faces 34 felonies, listening to people from his old life describe him as a depraved liar who sullied the White House. At the end...
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Hillary Clinton on Democrats’ Failures on Abortion: ‘We Could Have Done More’

  • News source: Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth Dias
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Hillary Clinton criticized her fellow Democrats over what she described as a decades-in-the-making failure to protect abortion rights, saying in her first extended interview about the fall of Roe v. Wade that her party underestimated the growing strength of anti-abortion forces until many Democrats were improbably “taken by surprise” by the landmark Dobbs decision in 2022.

In wide-ranging and unusually frank comments, Mrs. Clinton said Democrats had spent decades in a state of denial that a right enshrined in American life for generations could fall...
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Ric Grenell, Fierce Trump Loyalist, Seeks Cabinet Job as Reward

  • News source: Elizabeth Williamson
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Richard Grenell’s quest to be secretary of state in a second Trump administration began late on Election Day in 2020, when the defeated president dispatched loyalists to run shambolic “stop the steal” operations in battleground states.

President Donald J. Trump tapped Mr. Grenell — his combative former ambassador to Germany, acting national intelligence chief and special envoy to the Balkans — to fly by private plane to Nevada, where Mr. Grenell ensconced himself, his dog Lola, lawyers and a crew of far-right activists in a suite at the Venetian...
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Top moments from US v. Menendez reveal wads of cash stashed around New Jersey home: PHOTOS

  • News source: FOX News
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New photos admitted as evidence in the U.S. v. Menendez trial shed light on discoveries made by federal agents during their raid of the New Jersey senator's home.

Nearly $500,000 in cash and $150,000 in gold bars were strategically concealed throughout his cluttered New Jersey home, including a hefty stack of bills crammed inside a Timberland boot.

This week, jurors were presented with numerous photographs capturing scenes inside the Englewood Cliffs residence where the Democratic senator and his wife, Nadine, live. Nadine's trial was delayed...
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2024 wild card: Could Trump criminal trial verdict rock White House race?

  • News source: FOX News
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With closing arguments in former President Trump's criminal trial scheduled for early in the week ahead, a pending verdict in the historic case could have serious consequences in the 2024 election between the former president and President Biden.

Trump holds the slight edge right now both in national polling and in public opinion surveys in most of the crucial battleground states that will likely decide their election rematch.

However, Trump could potentially be convicted on some or all of the nearly three-dozen state felony charges he faces in his...
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