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Today's Political News Compilation - Wednesday, June 5, 2024

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Election certification disputes in a handful of states spark concerns over presidential contest

In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, two Republican members of a county canvassing board last month refused to sign off on the results of an election that led to the recall of three GOP members of the county commission. They did so only after state officials warned them it was their legal duty to record the final vote tally. ... Read the Full Story!

























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Arizona voters will decide fate of Texas-style border law at the ballot box

  • News source: FOX News
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The Arizona House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that will allow voters to decide on the fate of the state’s border security.

Patterned after a Texas law, HCR 2060, titled the Secure the Border Act, passed the state House on a party-line vote, with Republicans holding a slim one-vote majority in the chamber.

The bill, which already passed through the Senate, would make it a crime to enter Arizona illegally and would allow local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws while also allowing state judges to deport people...
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McConnell takes aim at 'isolationist' colleagues in scathing D-Day essay

  • News source: FOX News
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Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., warned of the parallels between current global tensions and those of the 1930s in an essay on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

"American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines joined allies and took the fight to the Axis powers not as a first instinct, but as a last resort," wrote the Kentucky Republican in an op-ed for the New York Times on Thursday. "They ended a war that the free world’s inaction had left them no choice but to fight."

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Russia holds Frenchman accused of military spying

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Moscow says the man was gathering military data about Russia and failed to register as a "foreign agent".
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Putin warns Russia could provide weapons to strike West

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Russian president has been criticising the West's delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine.
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Watch: Space X Starship makes successful splashdown

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The rocket made it much further in its planned mission profile than on previous tests, splashing down in the Indian Ocean.
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Rapid displacement of Gazans 'having deadly effect'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Children are "dying due to malnutrition and dehydration", an Unrwa spokesperson tells BBC Arabic.
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Migrants are rattled and unsure as deportations begin under new rule halting asylum

  • News source: Valerie Gonzalez and Elliot Spagat | The
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Abigail Castillo was about to cross the U.S. border illegally when she heard President Joe Biden was halting asylum. She continued anyway, walking hours through the mountains east of San Diego with her toddler son, hoping it wasn't too late.

“I heard that they were going to do it or were about to do it,” Castillo, 35, said Wednesday as she and her son were escorted to a Border Patrol van with about two dozen others from Brazil, Ecuador and her village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, which she said she left because it was gripped by...
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Flamingo spotted in Massachusetts in potentially unprecedented event

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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If verified, a recent flamingo sighting in Massachusetts would mark the first time a wild flamingo has been seen in the state, one expert said.
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NTSB begins considering probable cause in a near-collision between FedEx and Southwest planes

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Federal investigators are preparing to vote on the probable cause of an airport close call last year in which two planes nearly collided in Austin, Texas
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Iga Swiatek defeats Coco Gauff to reach the French Open final as she seeks a third straight title

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Iga Swiatek has eliminated Coco Gauff 6-2, 6-4 in the French Open semifinals
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Biden commemorates D-Day at Normandy, calling on allies to repel 'tyrant' Putin in Ukraine

  • News source: FOX News
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President Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France, using the occasion to call on allies to repel "tyrant" Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. At a ceremony held near the beaches of Normandy, Biden, speaking after French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, described the state of the world on June 6, 1944, when 73,000 Americans joined Allied forces to carry out the critical mission that came to be known as D-Day, considered a major turning point in World War II.

"The evil of...
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Biden's border crisis is 'wreaking havoc' on K-12 schools, says top GOP lawmaker

  • News source: FOX News
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While crime and housing are often at the forefront of illegal immigration discussions, a top GOP lawmaker said this week that the toll it takes on public schools and students is wrongly being overlooked.

In a lengthy interview with Fox News Digital, Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., chairman of the House Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education Subcommittee, said the migrant influx from the porous southern border is "wreaking havoc" on U.S. schools.

"Right now, that we know of, 10 million illegals have entered the country illegally under Joe...
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Biden draws links with WW2 and Ukraine in D-Day address

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Joe Biden says democracies are under threat, adding autocrats were "watching happens in Ukraine".
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WW2 veteran aged 102 dies on way to D-Day event

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Robert "Al" Persichitti, who served with the Navy in Japan, became ill on his way to Normandy.
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Scores feared dead after RSF militants attack village in Sudan’s Al Jazirah State

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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"Up to a hundred" people were killed as the RSF militia besieged the village, attacking the village twice with heavy artillery, the Wad Madani Resistance Committee said.
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