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Donald Trump asks New York’s high court to intervene in fight over gag order in hush money trial
Donald Trump is seeking to have New York’s highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial. The former president’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, a day after the state’s mid-level appellate court refused his request to lift or modify the restrictions. The filing was listed on a court docket, but the document
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GOP Sen. Mitt Romney says Biden should have pardoned Trump
Sen. Mitt Romney said President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump and pressured New York prosecutors not to pursue the hush money trial against the former president.
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Biden, Trump agree to debate on June 27 and Sept. 10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to face off in two debates on June 27 and Sept. 10, setting up the highest stakes moments yet of the race for the White House. "As you said: anywhere, any time, any place," Biden said on social media. Trump called Biden "the worst debater" he has ever faced.
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Jewish American Biden Appointee Is Latest To Resign In Protest Of Gaza Policy
"President Biden has the blood of innocent people on his hands," said Lily Greenberg Call in her resignation letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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DeSantis, amid criticism, signs Florida bill making climate change a lesser state priority
Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state's lengthy coastline. Critics said the measure made law by the former Republican presidential hopeful ignores the reality of climate change threats in Florida, including projections of rising seas, extreme heat and flooding and increasingly severe storms. It takes eff
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Will North Korea be a bigger threat under Biden or Trump?
North Korea's nuclear threat has been kept largely on the back burner by President Biden's administration, but pressure has been rising.
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Senate considers making Black Wall Street a national monument
More than 100 years after the nation's deadliest race massacre, the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill to grant national monument status to Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as "Black Wall Street." In 1921, Black Wall Street was burned to ashes by white mobs who attacked the then-thriving and predominantly Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The state of Oklahoma originally recorded 36 deaths from the massacre; however, a 2001 state commission reported that the number killed was likely a
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US military says Gaza Strip pier project is completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on
The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war. The final, overnight construction sets up a complicated delivery process more than two months after U.S. President Joe Biden ordered it to help Palestinians facing starvation as food and other supplies fail to make it in as Israel recently seized the key
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Donald Trump is supportive of AUKUS defence pact, former Australian PM says
Donald Trump gave the AUKUS defence pact a "warm reception", during a meeting with former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the latter said, one of the few public signs about Trump's view of the deal. Morrison, who left office in 2022, met Trump on Tuesday at the former president's home in New York for talks that covered AUKUS, China's assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific, and the threat to Taiwan, he said in a post on X.
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Will jurors believe Michael Cohen? Defense keys on witness' credibility at Trump hush money trial
With prosecutors' hush money case against Donald Trump barreling toward its end, their star witness will be back in the hot seat Thursday as defense lawyers try to chip away at Michael Cohen's crucial testimony implicating the former president. Cohen is prosecutors' final witness — at least for now — as they try to prove Trump schemed to suppress a damaging story he feared would torpedo his 2016 presidential campaign, and then falsified business records to cover it up. With the defense not exp
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'I'm really curious about the dog': Trump weighs in on Kristi Noem at a private fundraiser
Donald Trump told a room of wealthy donors that he had questions about Cricket, the 14-month-old dog who was shot and killed by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
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Jim Jordan accuses New York hush money prosecutor of Trump 'obsession'
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding documents from the New York attorney general related to the hiring of a lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
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North Carolina lawmakers push bill to ban most public mask wearing, citing crime
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by demonstrations against the war in Gaza that have included masked protesters camped out on college campuses. The legislation cleared the Senate on Wednesday in a 30-15 vote along party lines despite several attempts by state Senate Democrats to change the bill. The bill, which would raise penalties for s
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Biden and Trump agree to debates in late June and September
President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign on Wednesday challenged Republican nominee Donald Trump to two debates hosted in a television studio ahead of the November election — a departure from the traditional system that has been used.
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How Biden came around to debating Trump: From the Politics Desk
How President Joe Biden came around to challenging Donald Trump to two general elections debates, with the first on June 27 in Atlanta hosted by CNN.
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Biden administration advances potential $1 billion weapons sale to Israel
The Biden administration informally notified Congress on Tuesday that it is continuing to advance a potential $1 billion weapons sale to Israel through the State Department review process, a U.S. official familiar with the process told NBC News.
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Speaker Mike Johnson echoes Trump's 'frustration' with cases and believes threats to his gavel are behind him
House Speaker Mike Johnson defended visiting Donald Trump at his New York trial and said he doesn't expect another motion to remove him as speaker.
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RFK Jr. accuses Biden and Trump of 'colluding' to exclude him from debates
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. currently does not meet the qualifying threshold for the first presidential debate Biden and Trump agreed to participate in.
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Biden's new tariffs show he's willing to play hardball as China ramps up exports, Nobel economist Paul Krugman says
"Biden's moves are more than a symbolic gesture. They're a shot across the bow," Paul Krugman wrote about the new China tariffs.
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Sen. Bob Menendez's federal corruption trial is underway. Here's what to know about the case involving gold bars, a jacket lined with cash and a Mercedes.
While former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial continues in Manhattan criminal court, a criminal trial involving another elected U.S. official is happening just a few blocks away.
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Supreme Court orders Louisiana to use congressional map with additional Black district in 2024 vote
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander. The order allows the use of a map that has majority Black populations in two of the state’s six congressional districts, potentially boosting Democrats’ chances of gaining control of the closely divided House of Representatives in the 2024 elections. The justices acted on e
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US border arrests fall in April, bucking usual spring increase as Mexico steps up enforcement
Arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico fell more than 6% in April to the fourth lowest month of the Biden administration, authorities said Wednesday, bucking the usual spring increase. U.S. officials have largely attributed the decline to more enforcement in Mexico, including in yards where migrants are known to board freight trains. Mexico won’t allow more than 4,000 illegal crossings a day to the U.S., Alicia Barcena, Mexico’s foreign relations secretary, told reporters T
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Biden should have pardoned Trump on federal charges, Mitt Romney says
Republican senator tells MSNBC that ‘frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president’
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US military pier starts moving towards Gaza
The U.S. military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime port promised by President Joe Biden to speed the flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The U.S. military opted to pre-assemble the maritime pier at Israeli port of Ashdod earlier this month due to weather conditions at the Gaza site where it will now be installed. Officials hope the pier can be anchored to the coast of Gaza and aid ca
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Trump is trying to win over Silicon Valley
Biden's fundraising has so far dwarfed the Trump campaign. Biden had almost twice as much cash as Trump at the end of March, according to the FEC.
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Newsom, Lombardo trade blows over gas prices
The Democratic and Republican governors share fuel supplies, but have differing political approaches to the oil industry.
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House signs off on FAA bill that addresses aircraft safety and and refund rights of passengers
Congress gave final approval Wednesday to a $105 billion bill designed to increase the number of air traffic controllers, add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories, and require airlines to automatically pay refunds to travelers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed. The House passed the measure to reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration programs by a 387-26 margin and sent it to President Joe Biden. The Senate passed the measure last week.
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Biden administration, Texas duel in US appeals court over floating migrant barrier
The Biden administration on Wednesday urged a U.S. appeals court to rule that Texas cannot keep a 1,000-foot-long floating barrier in the Rio Grande, one in a series of measures taken by the Republican-led state to deter illegal border crossings. The full New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments for about an hour in an appeal by Texas of a judge's ruling that said the state needed the federal government's permission before installing the buoys last July. The case is
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How Republicans Undercut Their Own Pro-Police Message
A Republican budget proposal would cut federal grants for hiring local police officers.
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Biden trolls Trump as they agree to debate in June
Joe Biden and Donald Trump accepted CNN's proposal for a debate on June 27.
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Future of Texas' migrant-blocking buoys may hinge on whether the Rio Grande is 'navigable'
The future of a barrier of giant buoys that Texas Gov. Greg Abbot placed in the Rio Grande last year to deter migrant traffic may turn on whether a rocky, shallow stretch of the border river can be considered “navigable” and whether immigration sometimes constitutes a hostile invasion. The full 17-member 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on the issues in New Orleans on Wednesday, the latest courtroom debate in multiple legal disputes over border control between Democratic Presid
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The Biden administration is planning more changes to quicken asylum processing for new migrants
The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation’s asylum system meant to speed up processing and potential removal of migrants who continue to arrive at the southern border, an interim step as President Joe Biden continues to mull a broader executive order to crack down on border crossings that may come later this year. The change under consideration would allow certain migrants who are arriving at the border now to be processed first through the asylum system rather than going
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Japan, US move ahead in co-developing hypersonic weapons interceptor as regional threats grow
Japan and the United States on Wednesday signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons, which are possessed by China and Russia and being tested by North Korea. The project was initially agreed between Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden at their summit last August and reaffirmed between the leaders during Kishida's April visit to Washington. Hypersonic we
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US FDIC Chair Gruenberg vows culture fixes to skeptical lawmakers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Martin Gruenberg vowed to skeptical lawmakers Wednesday he would fix deep-seated cultural issues at his agency, as well as his own conduct. But lawmakers expressed doubt that the bank regulator -- who spent nearly two decades in leadership roles at the agency and was also the subject of some employee complaints about his temper -- was fit for the job. Testifying before Congress for several hours, Gruenberg was contrite both
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Republicans probing Jan. 6 investigation ask star witness Cassidy Hutchinson for more documents
A House GOP committee investigating the Jan. 6 probe and Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election sent a letter to Cassidy Hutchinson, asking her to hand over numerous communications with key Jan. 6 figures, as well as those related to her book deal.
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Republicans hope for Senate majority after strong West Virginia primary result
State’s governor, Jim Justice, clinched the Republican nomination and is expected to trounce Democratic opponent in election
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Prosecutors ask judge to order Steve Bannon to report to prison
Federal prosecutors requested U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols order former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to begin serving his four-month prison sentence after an appeals court last week upheld his conviction on contempt of Congress charges.
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Just 50 Families Have Spent $600 Million On The 2024 Elections So Far
More than two-thirds of their donations have flowed to Republican candidates or causes.
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Biden and Trump, trading barbs, agree to 2 presidential debates, in June and September
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for their first presidential face-off to play out in just over a month. The quick agreement on the timetable followed the Democrat's announcement that he would not participate in fall presidential debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission that has organized them for more than three decades.
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Billionaire Frank McCourt's Project Liberty forms consortium to bid for TikTok's US operations
A law signed by President Joe Biden on April 24 gives the social media platform's owner, ByteDance, until Jan. 19 next year to sell TikTok or face a ban. The White House had said it wants to see Chinese-based ownership ended on national security grounds but not a ban on TikTok.
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Analysis-'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' China trolls new US tariffs
China's measured response to the U.S. move to hike tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese goods from syringes to batteries suggests relations between the world's two largest economies face more frost rather than a fresh firefight over trade. China denounced the Biden administration's action and vowed "resolute measures" to protect its interests. But Beijing's response also suggests a new dynamic - and confidence - compared with 2018 when Trump-era tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods touched of
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Six big moments from Michael Cohen's Trump trial testimony
Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified at the former U.S. president's criminal trial this week, asserting he had Trump's "signoff" to buy a porn star's silence and undergoing a cross-examination by Trump's lawyers. Trump has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records to cover up Cohen's $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says they had in 2006. Trump denies an encounter.
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US House committee advances bill to restrict BGI, WuXi AppTec
(Reuters) -U.S. legislation that would restrict business with China's BGI, WuXi AppTec and certain other biotech companies on national security grounds was approved by a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Wednesday. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability voted overwhelmingly to approve the Biosecure Act, which now must get through the full House and Senate before President Joe Biden could sign it into law. The bill would push U.S. pharmaceutical and healthcare companies to
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China says 'bullying' tariff hike shows some in US are 'losing their minds'
BEIJING (Reuters) -A U.S. move to raise tariffs on Chinese goods is a sign of weakness, not of strength, and shows that some in the United States may be "losing their minds", China's foreign minister said on Wednesday, in unusually blunt comments. U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled steep tariff increases on Chinese imports including electric vehicle (EV) batteries, computer chips and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing as he woos American voters who give h
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US Lawmakers seek $32 billion to keep American AI ahead of China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of senators, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, on Wednesday called on Congress to approve $32 billion in funding for artificial intelligence research to keep the U.S. ahead of China in the powerful technology. The senators, including Republicans Mike Rounds and Todd Young and Democrat Martin Heinrich, announced the goal as part of a legislative roadmap to address the promises and perils of AI. The roadmap could help the U.S. address mounting worr
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Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing yearlong review
A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and place safeguards around it, writing in a report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to “harness the opportunities and address the risks” of the quickly developing technology. The group of two Democrats and two Republicans said in an interview Tuesday that while they sometimes disagreed on the best pa
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Trump who? California Republicans love electric vehicles
Conservative lawmakers say they want the state’s electric vehicle market to succeed, and aren’t paying attention to former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric.
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Lawyer opens defense of US Sen. Bob Menendez in his corruption trial by blaming his wife
A lawyer for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez blamed the politician’s wife Wednesday for his legal problems, telling a jury at the start of a corruption trial that the Democrat wasn’t aware his spouse had taken gifts from a trio of businessmen and didn't know about cash and gold bars hidden in a closet at their New Jersey home. “She kept him in the dark about what she was asking others to give her,” defense lawyer Avi Weitzman said, portraying it as a desperate search for funds from relatives and friends
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South Africa braces for what may be a milestone election. Here is a guide to the main players
After 30 years of dominating South African politics, the ruling African National Congress will face its toughest election this month as most opinion polls predict it will lose its parliamentary majority for the first time. Once admired under the leadership of Nelson Mandela, and regarded as a beacon of hope by the Black majority following the fall of apartheid in 1994, the ANC’s reputation has been battered by record levels of unemployment, widespread poverty, the collapse of some government se
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Trump’s Boeing 757 clipped parked plane after landing at Florida airport Sunday, FAA says
The wing of the Boeing jet owned by former President Donald Trump struck a parked plane at a Florida airport Sunday morning, the FAA said Tuesday.
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