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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyFor the duration of his criminal trial, Donald J. Trump has moved back into the penthouse of Trump Tower at the corner of 5th Avenue and 56th Street. With the owner and former president back in residence, you might think they'd spruce up the abutting commercial and retail space. You'd be wrong. The Daily Beast dropped in earlier this week for a tour of the "crown jewel of The Trump Organization."
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Metal barriers take up half the sidewalk and serve two purposes: (1) to hold back crowds; and (2) to force people to cross the avenue if they want a selfie of themselves giving the finger to Trump Tower.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The funds will allow Kyiv to purchase weapons directly from American defense companies.
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The House Freedom Caucus stalwart and 2020 election denier is confronting a general election challenge in a central Pennsylvania district that has grown more competitive.
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Mr. Meijer, a former House member, said he did not have a "strong pathway to victory" in the Michigan primary race.
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 Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesDonald Trump's presidency has served as a wake-up call that our Constitution and our laws were not designed to handle an authoritarian like him. And Thursday's Supreme Court hearing on presidential immunity was yet another reminder of that fact.
It's dangerous to try and divine the court's opinion based on oral arguments; however, the consensus seems to be heading in a direction that says that a president should be immune from prosecution over "official," but not private, acts. On the surface, this seems like a reasonable precedent. After all, we don't want a banana republic where former presidents are unfairly targeted for prosecution after they leave office.
Still, this foreboding thought remains: It is virtually impossible to untwine "official" acts from personal crimes. Someone like Trump can always lie about his motives.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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A profile of Humza Yousaf, the SNP leader, who faces a no confidence vote in the Scottish Parliament.
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The encampments present a new wrinkle in a year already knotted by war abroad and domestic discord.
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Linking things to George Soros is a classic antisemitic ploy. Here it's used to criticize protests described as antisemitic.
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The visit next week will come as talks on a cease-fire deal have stalled and tensions have risen over the treatment of civilians in the war.
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As a wave of student protests against Israel's war on Gaza continues to spread from coast to coast, schools and law enforcement have responded with increasing brutality to campus encampments. One of the most violent police crackdowns took place at Emory University in Atlanta on Thursday, when local and state police swept onto the campus just hours after students had set up tents on the quad in protest against Israel's war on Gaza as well as the planned police training center known as Cop City. Police used tear gas and stun guns to break up the encampment as they wrestled people to the ground, and are accused of using rubber bullets. Among those arrested were a few faculty members. We hear from two of the arrested professors: Noëlle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department, and Emil' Keme, professor of English and Indigenous studies. We also speak with Palestinian American organizer and medical student Umaymah Mohammad, who describes how Emory has repeatedly suppressed activism on campus since the start of the war in October, and says law enforcement in Georgia work closely with Israeli authorities as part of a police training exchange. "We no longer accept our tuition dollars and our tax money going to fund an active genocide," she says.
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The policing minister appeared to ask an audience member if Rwanda and Congo were different countries.
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Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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The first minister is fighting for his political career and his best chance may be a figure from his party's past.
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U.S. authorities consider DJI a security threat. Congress is weighing legislation to ban it, prompting a lobbying campaign from the company, which dominates the commercial and consumer drone markets.
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Political leaders fight for headlines ahead of local elections, leading to rumours of a general election.
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The Secret Service agent was removed during an incident on Monday morning shortly before Vice President Kamala Harris left for a campaign event in Wisconsin.
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The Question Time audience were surprised when Chris Philp answered an audience member's question about DR Congo.
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Amnesty International has released its annual report assessing human rights in 155 countries. The report highlights Israel's assault on Gaza with evidence of war crimes continuing to mount, as well as U.S. failures to denounce rights violations committed by Israel. It also points to Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine, and the rise of authoritarianism and massive rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar. We speak to Agnès Callamard, the organization's secretary general, who warns "the international system is on the brink of collapse" and decries the failure of rights mechanisms and Israel's top ally, the United States, to rein in its "unprecedented" assault on Gaza.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is in China this week as tensions have risen over trade, security, Russia's war on Ukraine and the Middle East crisis.
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Such a ruling would probably send the case back to a lower court and could delay any trial until after the November election.
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The Senate majority leader promised a test vote by Wednesday on a measure pairing an immigration crackdown with Ukraine aid, but its outlook remains dim with Republican resistance.
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