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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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Black men told to leave flight sue American Airlines, claiming racial discrimination

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Three Black men are suing American Airlines, claiming they were discriminated against when ordered to leave a plane in January
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he opposed removal of Confederate monuments

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he opposed the removal of Confederate statues, recalling that he had a "visceral reaction against" the destruction of monuments honoring southern leaders from the Civil War.

The top Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, had "extraordinary qualities of leadership" that deserve to be celebrated, Kennedy said Friday in an interview with the conservative podcast host Tim Pool on the Timcast IRL.

"There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn't have slaves," Kennedy said when asked about the...
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CBS Colorado hosts 4th Congressional District GOP primary debate

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Voters in Colorado will soon be making some big decisions in state races, including the 4th Congressional District seat which was vacated earlier this year by former Rep. Ken Buck. On Wednesday night CBS News Colorado will host a debate with the Republican primary candidates in that heavily conservative district.

The GOP candidates will debate on Wednesday evening at the Lone Tree Arts Center and it will air on the CBS News Colorado stream at 8 p.m. It will be moderated by CBS News Colorado Political Specialist Shaun Boyd and the following...
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Harvard will no longer comment on public matters unrelated to 'core function'

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Harvard will no longer comment on public matters unrelated to its 'core function' amid ongoing tensions related to the Israel-Hamas war.
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Ex-Trump campaign legal adviser has Colorado law license suspended for 3 years

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Washington — Jenna Ellis, who served as a legal adviser to former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, is barred from practicing law in the state of Colorado for three years, according to an agreement reached with state legal regulators.

Under the deal approved Tuesday by a presiding disciplinary judge of the Colorado Supreme Court, Ellis' suspension of her law license takes effect July 2. The disciplinary proceedings stemmed from Ellis' indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, for her alleged role in a scheme to overturn the results of the...
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Vulnerable Dem senator hit with blistering ad as record on key issue faces scrutiny: 'F- rating'

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FIRST ON FOX: Businessman Bernie Moreno, running for Senate as a Republican against incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, released a blistering ad on Wednesday hammering the longtime Democrat on his ties to President Biden's agenda and alleged weakness on immigration.

"Biden's politics now are not much different than mine," a video of Brown from a 2021 interview, said in his own words at the start of the video, before claiming that "Sherrod Brown shares Biden's open border agenda."

The ad goes on to say that Brown "refused to fund efforts to...
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NY v Trump: Former president unleashes social media firestorm ahead of jury deliberation

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Former President Trump unleashed a social media firestorm ahead of the jury in his New York trial beginning deliberations on Wednesday.

Court began shortly after 10:00 a.m. ET with Judge Juan Merchan reading the deliberation instructions to the jury before they seek to reach a verdict on the charges of falsification of business records against the former president.

"KANGAROO COURT! A CORRUPT AND CONFLICTED JUDGE. RELIANCE ON COUNSEL (ADVISE OF COUNSEL) NOT ALLOWED BY MERCHAN, A FIRST," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

NY V. TRUMP: JUDGE MERCHAN TO...
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Watch live: Volcano erupts in Iceland

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A new volcanic eruption has begun on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula, throwing up magma plumes of up to 50m.
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Delhi 'unbearable' as temperatures near 50C

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The Indian capital's power demand also soars to an all-time high as residents try to cope with the heat.
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Singapore Airlines plane jolted up and down over five seconds - report

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This probably caused injuries to those without seatbelts, who rose out of their seats and fell back down.
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What each side said in Trump trial closing arguments

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The BBC's Nada Tawfik highlights some of the key points before the jury starts deliberating on Wednesday.
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Two Giant Pandas Will Head to D.C.’s National Zoo From China

  • News source: Katie Rogers
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It was a long and terrible six months without giant pandas, Washington’s most famous symbol of literal soft diplomacy, but this unbearable (sorry) drought will soon be over.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute announced on Wednesday that two new fuzzy diplomats will soon be on their way to the United States from China. The pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, will be flown over before the end of the year, the zoo said in a statement.

They are both 2 years old — young for a Washington power couple — and their anticipated...
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Nikki Haley Writes ‘Finish Them’ on Artillery Shell in Israel

  • News source: Maggie Astor
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Nikki Haley, the former Republican presidential candidate and U.N. ambassador during the Trump administration, wrote “Finish them” on an artillery shell in Israel this week.

Danny Danon, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations and a member of the Israeli Parliament, shared a photo on social media on Tuesday showing Ms. Haley signing the shell. Her visit came just days after Israel drew international condemnation for a strike that killed dozens of Gazan civilians in a camp for displaced Palestinians.

“This is what my friend, the former...
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Iceland's Blue Lagoon evacuated as volcano erupts

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The nearby town of Grindavík has also been evacuated, officials have said.
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Israel expects Gaza war to continue seven months - adviser

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Tzachi Hanegbi also says Israel now controls 75% of the buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border.
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