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Jury selection for the remaining alternates continues Friday in former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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 Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersIsrael's retaliatory attack against Iran early Friday came despite President Joe Biden's stringent warnings against doing just that to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the leaders appearing to become increasingly at odds about how Israel should respond against its enemies.
The U.S. was only tipped off about the attack "at the last minute," according to the Italian foreign minister who spoke to American officials at a meeting of the G7 on Friday morning.
Iran has so far played down the significance of the attack, with state media portraying the incident as involving a few drones that were taken down without causing damage. American sources, however, have suggested the strike involved missiles—though the severity of the damage caused by the attack is not yet clear.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Toby Melville/GettyNot a lick has yet been tasted by the masses, but the headlines around Meghan Markle's American Riviera Orchard strawberry jam continue unabated. Fifty pots were sent to influencers, and all the hype around it helped spike sales of King Charles' own-brand organic strawberry preserve. Is it just a PR gimmick, or will we all taste the red stuff soon? Royalist Correspondent Tom Sykes and Senior Editor Tim Teeman discuss the impact of Meghan's latest venture.
Tom Sykes: I have to be honest, there are lots of things I don't understand about the launch of American Riviera Orchard. For starters, it seems really strange to me to do a big social media campaign, like the one we've been sold over the past few days, but not have any product actually available for the punters to buy. There is not even a functioning website. When you go to the ARO website it just gets you to enter your email address for updates.
Tim Teeman: Sure, it's not user-friendly, but I can think of nothing more camp than making a launch of strawberry jam and mysterious homewares as hush-hush and mysterious as a Taylor Swift album release. It also sticks it to the media (that Meghan and Prince Harry can't abide), who are currently, futilely trying to get hold of this jam, jars of which are presently reserved for the hands and mouths of selected friends and influencers. Isn't it genius marketing? Create a product, create a buzz around the product, make
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His liabilities weren't dominating the conversation the way they once did, perhaps helping his polling, but the trial could change things.
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 CNNJesse Ventura, the former governor of Minnesota who was elected on neither the Democratic nor Republican ticket, confidently declared Thursday that, if given ballot access nationally and a spot in the presidential debates, he could actually beat not only Donald Trump but President Joe Biden.
On CNN's Out Front, Ventura, who hasn't held elected office since 2003, was first asked about Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and whether he would vote for him.
"I don't know yet," Ventura told anchor Erin Burnett, before praising the vaccine skeptic whose candidacy has spurred many family members to endorse Biden. "RFK and I have our differences. I met with him about the VP job. We met one evening for over two hours and discussed it, and I have all the admiration in the world for him. He has every right to run, and he's probably going to get a lot of votes."
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Republicans and Democrats voted to advance a measure to extend a warrantless surveillance law, but skeptics in both parties were still pushing to make substantial changes before a final vote.
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Republicans say the quick dismissal of charges against Alejandro Mayorkas sets a dangerous precedent. Democrats say the mistake would have been to treat the case seriously.
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The speaker, facing resistance from fellow Republicans, has devised a strategy for steering aid to Ukraine and Israel through the House. The key vote will take place before any of it hits the floor.
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Two jurors selected earlier for the New York trial were dismissed, and Donald Trump's lawyers could not convince the judge that they can keep the former president quiet.
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 REUTERS/Caitlin OchsScores of Columbia University students were arrested Thursday afternoon after they rebuffed authorities' pleas to vacate an on-campus tent city erected in support of Palestine.
"Since you have refused to disperse, you will now be placed under arrest for trespassing," the NYPD told protesters through a loudspeaker. "If you resist arrest, you may face additional charges."
Police officers began taking protesters into custody at around 1:30 p.m., putting them in flex-cuffs and loading them onto buses parked nearby. "Shame! Shame!" some chanted as the arrests unfolded. Others broke out in their own chant of, "Columbia, Columbia you will see, Palestine will be free," and "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, will not rest."
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 Mohammed Salem/ReutersA harrowing photograph showing a woman in Gaza sobbing in a morgue as she cradles the body of her 5-year-old niece won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award on Thursday.
Mohammed Salem, a 39-year-old Palestinian Reuters photographer, captured the image at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the enclave on Oct. 17, 2023. The picture shows Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embracing the shrouded corpse of her niece, Saly.
"Mohammed received the news of his WPP award with humility, saying that this is not a photo to celebrate but that he appreciates its recognition and the opportunity to publish it to a wider audience," Rickey Rogers, Reuters' Global Editor for Pictures and Video, said at a ceremony in Amsterdam. "He hopes with this award that the world will become even more conscious of the human impact of war, especially on children."
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Students at Columbia University and Barnard College in New York have set up dozens of tents to occupy the South Lawn of the campus to create a Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Democracy Now! spoke to some of the student-activists, who say they are occupying the space, despite the administration's threats of suspension and disciplinary action, as part of a demand that the Ivy League school divest from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli occupation. "It seems like the repression is only getting worse and worse," says Maryam Alwan, a student-activist with Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine.
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Jury selection in Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York is continuing Thursday. Twelve jurors and six alternates need to be seated for the trial.
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Plus, a brazen gold heist.
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The full 12-person jury for Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial has been seated.
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U.S. Judge Aileen M. Cannon said prosecutors had adequate evidence in the indictment to bring obstruction charges against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.
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Well-known members of the storied political family endorsed the president in Philadelphia, rejecting one of their own as he worries Democrats with an independent bid.
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The rollout of endorsements from the Kennedys signaled the urgency the Biden campaign feels toward Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent bid, and its desire to discredit him.
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 AFP via Getty Images A Russian military court convened on Thursday to rage against the press secretary of Facebook's parent company over a tweet posted more than two years ago.
Andy Stone, the press secretary of Meta, was not present in the Moscow District Military Court. Andy Stone will probably never be present in a Russian court.
But that did not stop a high-profile prosecutor from trying to call up a witness to make the Kremlin's case that Stone is guilty of "justifying terrorism" for announcing back in March 2022 that Facebook and Instagram users could write "death to the Russian invaders" as much as they pleased. (Stone made clear at the time, at the height of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that calls for violence against Russian civilians would not be tolerated.)
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Senators are under pressure to reject amendments to a House-passed bill so it can become law before a statute expires Friday night. But the program would continue after any such lapse — with some caveats.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said the death toll might rise and blamed lack of air defenses for the loss of life. Dozens more were reported wounded.
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The twin decisions have all but guaranteed that voters will have the issue on their minds in November, bringing potential risks for two anti-abortion Republicans in the state whose districts aren't solidly red.
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Israel is facing global condemnation after killing several international aid workers in Gaza. The workers with charity group World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike after unloading more than 100 tons of food aid carried by ship from Cyprus into Gaza. The charity staff, including three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national and an American-Canadian dual citizen, and their Palestinian driver were struck while traveling in a clearly marked convoy branded with the charity's logo. World Central Kitchen said the attack occurred after the workers left a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, even though the charity had coordinated in advance about the convoy with the Israeli military. "Every single humanitarian aid worker … is already recognized by the Israeli army," says journalist Akram al-Satarri, reporting live from Rafah. "It's the full responsibility of the Israeli government now to clarify and … demystify the circumstances that led to that catastrophic incident." Al-Satarri also reports on Israel's move to ban the outlet Al Jazeera and on his experience living in Gaza right now, where food and medical supplies are scarce under Israel's strict blockade. "The famine is not looming. The famine is already taking place."
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Former President Donald Trump attended a hearing Thursday in the case over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
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