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Today's Political News Compilation - Thursday, May 30, 2024

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Trump found guilty on all 34 counts in hush money case

Jurors found former President Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, making him the first former president to be convicted of a felony. The jurors reached a verdict in late afternoon, after less than 12 hours of deliberation in the hush money criminal case. The 12 New Yorkers on Trump’s jury reached a unanimous decision on his fate, eliminating the possibility of a hung jury. Read the Full Story!

























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Trump may face travel restrictions in some countries after conviction

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Former President Donald Trump, whose administration imposed multiple versions of a travel ban against people coming from Muslim-majority nations, may now face restrictions on his own international travel, following his felony conviction in New York Thursday.

At this point, Trump faces no specific travel restrictions from Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over the "hush money" criminal trial in New York, in which the former president was found guilty of 34 felony counts. His sentencing is scheduled to take place on July 11, four days before the...
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Marian Robinson, President Barack Obama's mother-in-law, dies at 86

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Marian Robinson, former President Barack Obama's mother-in-law, passed away Friday at the age of 86, according to the family.
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What's next after Trump's conviction? How he might appeal the verdict

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Former President Donald Trump's historic conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records brought to an end the trial stage of the case stemming from a "hush money" payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. But it marks the beginning of a potentially lengthy appeals process that could take years to unfold.

A jury of 12 New Yorkers found Trump guilty on all counts, handing down a landmark verdict Wednesday that marks the first time a former U.S. president has been convicted of a crime. The jury deliberated for...
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Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Marian Robinson, the mother of former first lady Michelle Obama, has died at the age of 86, her family announced Friday.

"She passed peacefully this morning, and right now, none of us are quite sure how exactly we'll move on without her," the statement read.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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Soros heir urges Democrats to hammer Trump as 'convicted felon at every opportunity'

  • News source: FOX News
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Progressive megadonor George Soros's son and heir to his enterprise advised Democrats on Friday to emphasize former President Trump's status as a "convicted felon," after he was found guilty by a New York jury on charges filed by a district attorney that the powerful Soros family helped elect.

"Democrats should refer to Trump as a convicted felon at every opportunity," Alexander Soros wrote on X.

SENATE DEMS IN BATTLEGROUND RACES CAREFUL TO WEIGH IN ON TRUMP VERDICT

"Repetition is the key to a successful message and we want people to wrestle with...
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Michelle Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, dies at 86

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Robinson was a well-known fixture at the White House during the eight years of Barack Obama's administration between 2009 and 2017.
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Philippines warns China against 'acts of war'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Philippine president warns China not to cross a red line as their standoff in the South China Sea escalates.
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Americans react to Trump's guilty conviction

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The ex-president was found guilty on all counts of falsifying business records. Americans have mixed opinions about the verdict.
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Obituary: Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s mother, dies

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Described as the most popular person in the White House, she had the unique title of "first grandma".
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Bracing for Start of Trial in Gun Case, Hunter Biden Is Squeezed for Money

  • News source: Glenn Thrush and Mattathias Schwartz
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Over the past turbulent decade, through myriad self-inflicted troubles, Hunter Biden has relied on the kindness of friends and family — wives and girlfriends, business partners, his father and, most recently, a Los Angeles lawyer who provided the president’s son a $7 million lifeline.

But now that lawyer, Kevin Morris, who has played many parts in Mr. Biden’s life — legal adviser, confidant, strategist, art patron and friend — has told associates he is running out of liquid assets to make any more loans, deepening a chronic cash crunch that has...
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Fox News and MSNBC Notch Rating Wins After Trump’s Verdict

  • News source: Michael M. Grynbaum
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The jury was unanimous. But the cable news verdict was a split decision.

Viewers around the country scrambled to their television screens on Thursday to learn the outcome of the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump.

Fox News scored the biggest audience for breaking coverage of the 34 guilty counts, pulling in 4.7 million viewers from 5 to 6 p.m., according to Nielsen. That is a huge viewership for a weekday afternoon and easily outstripped the audiences for CNN, MSNBC and the broadcast networks that cut into regular...
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Netanyahu Invited to Address Congress Amid Division Over Israel-Hamas War

  • News source: Annie Karni
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The top four congressional leaders formally invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday to address a joint meeting of Congress, in a show of bipartisan unity that masked a fraught behind-the-scenes debate over receiving him.

The invitation, which set no date, came amid deep political divides in the United States over the war between Israel and Hamas, which has intensified after Israel’s recent attacks in Rafah.

Speaker Mike Johnson had been pressing to issue the invitation for weeks, seeking to hug Mr. Netanyahu closer as some...
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Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction

  • News source: Ryan J. Reilly | NBC News
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The 34 felony guilty verdicts returned Thursday against former President Donald Trump spurred a wave of violent rhetoric aimed at the prosecutors who secured his conviction, the judge who oversaw the case and the ordinary jurors who unanimously agreed there was no reasonable doubt that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee falsified business records related to hush money payments to a porn star to benefit his 2016 campaign.

Advance Democracy, a non-profit that conducts public interest research, said there has been a high volume of social...
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Mexico is on the verge of electing its first woman president

  • News source: Norma Garcia | Telemundo 39 and The Associated
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Mexico will choose its next president on Sunday and there is every indication the country will elect its first woman leader.

More than 100 million Mexican voters will go to the polls in the largest elections in the country’s history. In the presidential race, they will have to choose between three candidates, but two women have taken the lead.

"According to every poll, yes or yes, Mexico will have a female president," said Francisco de la Torre Galindo, the Consul General of Mexico in Dallas.

Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, has...
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Feds charge retired 4-star Navy admiral in alleged bribery scheme

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Federal prosecutors accused a retired four-star Navy admiral — who most recently served as commander of U.S. Navy forces in Europe and Africa — of entering into an alleged bribery scheme with a government contractor to secure employment after his retirement.

A grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted Admiral Robert Burke (ret.) on four counts, including conspiracy and bribery, according to court documents unsealed Friday.

Prosecutors said Burke allegedly secured a government contract for his codefendants Yongchul "Charlie" Kim and...
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