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Today's Political News Compilation - Tuesday, May 28, 2024

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Prosecutor says Trump tried ‘to hoodwink voters’ while defense attacks key witness in last arguments

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday during closing arguments in the former president’s hush money trial, while a defense lawyer branded the star witness as the “greatest liar of all time” and pressed the panel for an across-the-board acquittal.

The lawyers’ dueling accounts, wildly divergent in their assessments of witness credibility, Trump’s culpability and the strength of evidence, offered both sides one final chance to score points with the jury before it starts deliberating the first felony case against a former American president.
























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Executions worldwide jumped last year to the highest number since 2015, Amnesty report says

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Amnesty International says the number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015
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European-Japanese climate research satellite launched from California aboard SpaceX rocket

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A European-Japanese climate research satellite designed to study Earth’s temperature balance has been launched into orbit from California
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Authorities urge proper cooking of wild game after 6 relatives fall ill from parasite in bear meat

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The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reaffirmed the importance of properly cooking wild game after six people became sick from a parasite traced to bear meat that was served at a family reunion in South Dakota
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Farmers must kill 4.2 million chickens after bird flu hits Iowa egg farm

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More than 4 million chickens in Iowa will have to be killed after a case of the highly pathogenic bird flu was detected at a large egg farm
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Oregon wineries and vineyards seek $100 million from PacifiCorp for wildfire smoke damage to grapes

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Dozens of Oregon wineries and vineyards have sued PacifiCorp over the deadly 2020 wildfires
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RFK Jr. says erasing history like Confederate statues is not 'a good, healthy thing for any culture'

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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. voiced opposition to the removal of Confederate monuments, including the Robert E. Lee statue that was taken down and melted in Charlottesville, Virginia, adding he did not think "it’s a good, healthy thing for any culture to erase history."

Kennedy appeared on the "TimCast IRL" podcast on Friday, where the host, independent journalist Tim Pool, asked the Independent presidential candidate about activists tearing down statues like those from the Civil War or of former slaves like Frederick Douglass, who...
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Fifth-generation Texan advances past GOP primary runoff to take on progressive homeless activist

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State Rep. Craig Goldman secured the Republican nomination for the open 12th Congressional District in Texas in a runoff Tuesday, a seat opening up due to the retirement of Rep. Kay Granger, according to the Associated Press.

Goldman won in a runoff after neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the March primary. Granger has held the seat since 1997 but is retiring at the end of the term.

The race had been a demonstration of the split in the state’s Republican Party. O’Shea had framed himself an "America First" candidate and had...
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Retired Navy officer Furman advances past GOP primary runoff to take on federally indicted Texas Democrat

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Jay Furman defeated Lazaro Garza in the Republican runoff primary race to decide who will square off against Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, who was indicted by the federal government on conspiracy and bribery charges earlier this month.

The GOP runoff primary for the 28th Congressional District was called Tuesday night for the winner, just after 8 p.m. local time Tuesday night.

Jay Furman, a retired Navy officer, and rancher Lazaro Garza were competing in a heavily-watched primary that will help determine the political future of Cuellar, who was...
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Trump lawyer tells jury Cohen is 'greatest liar of all time'

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The former president's hush-money trial nears its end as the prosecution and defence make closing arguments.
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Republican Navy Veteran Will Face Henry Cuellar in South Texas

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Jay Furman, a retired Navy officer, has won the Republican nomination to challenge embattled Representative Henry Cuellar of South Texas in November, according to The Associated Press.

Mr. Furman defeated his challenger, Lazaro Garza Jr., a rancher, in a runoff after the two emerged as the top vote-getters in a crowded March primary. Mr. Cuellar, a centrist Democrat, is still largely expected to win re-election in Texas’ 28th Congressional District. But the terrain has become somewhat more favorable for Republicans after Mr. Cuellar was indicted...
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NY v Trump: Prosecution says they have presented 'powerful evidence' against former president

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New York prosecutors presented the jury with their closing argument in the case against former President Trump Tuesday, saying the case is "about a conspiracy and a cover-up," and maintained that they have presented "powerful evidence" to convict.

Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. He has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump falsified records to conceal a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, a pornographic performer, in the lead-up to the 2016 election...
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Israel's Rafah operation not a major offensive - US

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Witnesses report seeing Israeli tanks in the centre of the city on Tuesday.
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South Africans vote with ANC majority in the balance

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The governing party is battling to retain its parliamentary majority, 30 years after Nelson Mandela led it to victory.
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Satellite to probe mystery of clouds and climate

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Europe's Earthcare satellite will tell us if the planet could lose the cooling effect of clouds.
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Zelensky urges Biden to attend Ukraine peace summit

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The Ukrainian president says his US counterpart's absence would "only be applauded by Putin".
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