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President Biden is raising $25 million at a Radio City Music Hall event, adding to his huge cash edge, after Donald Trump pushed his law-and-order message at a wake for a police officer killed on duty.
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Reuters/Shannon StapletonDonald Trump once again went scorched earth against the daughter of the judge overseeing his New York hush-money trial on Thursday, posting a fiery rant to Truth Social that called her out by name.
That woman, Loren Merchan, has become the focal point of Trump's attacks against her dad, Judge Juan Merchan, in his longshot attempt to have him ousted as the judge presiding over his criminal case in New York.
Trump has decried that Loren's position as president of a political consulting firm that's worked with Democrats, as well as anti-Trump social media posts he wrongly attributed to her, should disqualify Judge Merchan from his case because it somehow shows he's biased.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The Daily Beast/Brian Pritchard for GeorgiaA judge ruled on Wednesday that the first vice chairman of Georgia's Republican Party, who'd made public claims about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, voted illegally nine times.
Brian K. Pritchard, who hosts a conservative talk show, was accused of illegally voting in Georgia while on probation after pleading guilty to felony check forgery in Pennsylvania in 1996.
Pritchard claimed that he believed his probation had already ended when he registered to vote in Georgia, but Senior District Attorney General Russell Willard argued that was not true.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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They argue that quickly dispensing with the charges, as senators in both parties are inclined to do, would be an affront to Americans.
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A State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resigned Wednesday in protest of U.S. support for Israel's assault on Gaza. Annelle Sheline, who worked as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, was not planning on publicly resigning, but her colleagues asked her to "please speak out" against the Biden administration's unconditional support for Israel. "At the end of the day, many people inside [the State Department] know that this is a horrific policy, and can't believe that the United States government is engaged in such actions that contravene American values so directly, but the leadership is not listening," says Sheline. "I'm trying to speak on behalf of those many, many people who feel so betrayed by our government's stance." Sheline describes being moved by the words of Aaron Bushnell, the active-duty U.S. airman who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in protest of the war on Gaza, who implored everyone to take a stand against genocide. "I have a young daughter, and I thought about, in the future, if she were to ask me, 'What were you doing when this was happening? You were at the State Department.' I want to be able to tell her that I didn't stay silent."
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The Supreme Court heard arguments on the redistricting case in October but has yet to rule, essentially running out the clock for this year's election.
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Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said in an interview that a Russian victory could embolden China to move against Taiwan and would fuel anti-American propaganda.
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Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via Getty ImagesFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Wednesday aiming to crack down on residential squatters in his state by radically shortening the process by which homeowners request the removal of unauthorized people from property.
"The squatter scam ends today with my signature on this piece of legislation and the state of Florida will be better for it," DeSantis said, according to WTVJ. As well as making it simpler to evict squatters, HB 621 also "creates harsh penalties" for people who take part in squatting and "those who encourage squatting and teach others the scam," DeSantis' office said in a news release.
The law, which comes into effect on July 1, means that homeowners will now be able to "fill out a form, give it to your local sheriff and the sheriff is instructed to go and remove the people who are inhabiting your dwelling illegally," DeSantis said. Before the bill, squatters were afforded certain rights as tenants that meant a longer process was required to evict them.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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A judge is holding a hearing Thursday on a motion to dismiss the Georgia 2020 election case against Donald Trump. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
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He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyWhen conservative icon Matt Schlapp announced Tuesday that the sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against him was dropped, he and his allies were quick to note that the ordeal ended without him or the American Conservative Union—the right-wing organization he runs—paying his accuser a single dollar.
But what Schlapp didn't disclose was that the Republican operative who sued him was, in fact, paid to drop the lawsuit, according to two people with knowledge of the payout. It was just that the money came from ACU's insurance company, these two people told The Daily Beast.
(Minutes before this article published, CNN ran a story also revealing that the lawsuit was dropped only after Schlapp's accuser was paid $480,000 from ACU's insurer—an amount one of the sources confirmed to The Daily Beast.)
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on the abortion pill mifepristone, which is available by mail and can be taken at home, even in states that have severely limited or banned abortions. The case was brought by a group of anti-choice medical associations that have sought to overturn moves by the Food and Drug Administration to increase access to the drug, which is used for roughly two-thirds of all U.S. abortions. This was the first abortion-related Supreme Court hearing since the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. A decision is expected by July. "Overall the justices showed that they were skeptical of the claims brought by the plaintiffs in this case," says Michele Goodwin, a law professor at Georgetown University and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. Goodwin summarizes the arguments presented by both sides, the justices' responses and the legal implications of the upcoming ruling.
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The former president told an Israeli news outlet that images of destruction in Gaza were harming the country: "You're losing a lot of the world."
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It comes after Ex-Tory MP Scott Benton stood down rather than face a recall petition.
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Conservative activists who spoke with Fox News Digital say they prefer former President Donald Trump to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president in 2024.
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