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Tensions over economic ties are running high, threatening to disrupt a fragile cooperation between the U.S. and China.
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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAn Arizona grand jury indicted seven attorneys and aides linked to Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign on Wednesday, including his onetime Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
The felony charges are tied to their alleged efforts to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the state and have Trump be named winner—despite him losing the state by 10,000 votes.
The state's attorney general announced the indictments, which were obtained by The Daily Beast. Others charged alongside Meadows and Giuliani were Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign lawyer; John Eastman, a Trump lawyer who presented him with the now-infamous "coup memo," which included a roadmap to implementing the fake elector plot and overturning the election; Christina Bobb, a Trump lawyer; Boris Epshteyn, a top campaign adviser; and Mike Roman, a campaign aide.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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In one meeting, Biden and others sprang a surprise effort to persuade Speaker Johnson to pass the aid package
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 Hannah McKayHamas released a video of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on Wednesday, as Israel's brutal military campaign in Gaza passes its two hundredth day, with dozens of hostages still missing.
Goldberg-Polin was among those in attendance at the Nova Music Festival, only a few miles away from Israel's border with Gaza. In the video, Goldberg-Polin is missing his left hand and arm below the elbow, which is consistent with a report that his arm was blown off while trying to throw grenades out of a bunker while he and other attendees hid from insurgents.
While the video is undated, Goldberg-Polin said that he'd been abandoned by the Israeli government for "almost 200 days." As of Wednesday, the hostages were kidnapped 201 days ago.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The bipartisan bill includes $60.8 billion for Ukraine; $26.4 billion for Israel and humanitarian aid for civilians in conflict zones, including Gaza; and $8.1 billion for the Indo-Pacific region.
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 CNNHouse Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), speaking to CNN right after his cold reception by pro-Palestine Columbia University student protesters, said he wasn't surprised by the situation, since he was there to essentially issue a reprimand.
Johnson told Erin Burnett that he and the other Republican lawmakers who joined him on campus had a message for the students.
"I'm not surprised that they didn't welcome our visit, because we're calling out their activities," Johnson said. "The point we tried to make today is that this is not who we are as Americans. This is not an expression of the First Amendment. This is not an exchange of ideas. This is threats and intimidation of violence against Jewish students for who they are, for their faith, and that's a terrible trend that's going on in the country right now."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Weapons from the aid package, considered "a lifeline" for Ukraine's military, could be arriving on the battlefield within days.
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 Reuters/Paul MorigiRep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) died Wednesday, succumbing to complications from a heart attack he suffered earlier this month, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Wednesday. He was 65.
Payne had been unconscious since his heart attack on April 6, which his office said stemmed from diabetes.
He was in the middle of his sixth term in Congress, representing Newark and parts of Essex, Hudson, and Union Counties.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Trump's comments marked his latest downplaying of a 2017 white-supremacist event that he declared had "very fine people on both sides."
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Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and other Trump allies were indicted in connection with their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
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A Newark Democrat, he succeeded his father, who was the first Black member of New Jersey's congressional delegation.
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A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.
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The former president portrayed largely peaceful pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses as "riots," saying that "Charlottesville is like a ‘peanut'" in comparison.
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U.S. aid to Taiwan, a new TikTok law, and Beijing's ties with the Kremlin are at the forefront of this week's visit.
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Johnson's visit marks the first time the top representative in the House is visiting a college campus amid ongoing protests that have at times burst into violent attacks between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students.
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The justices weighed whether a federal law aimed at protecting access to emergency medical care superseded Idaho's near-total abortion ban.
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Labour's deputy leader has been dogged by questions over her living arrangements before she was an MP.
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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersAs Donald Trump's hush money trial resumed on Tuesday, David Pecker arrived without the improbable smile he had when he first took the witness stand the day before.
On Monday, the 72-year-old accountant-turned-supermarket sleaze had seemed delighted to appear on center stage, even if it was to testify against a man he had once called a friend. He appeared to be energized by the drama of a courtroom packed with reporters, uniformed court officers and Secret Service agents, and initially seemed completely comfortable to assume the high profile perch of a subpoenaed stool pigeon.
But he must have been more anxious than he at first appeared, for he erupted into a sudden, surprisingly loud laugh when he momentarily had trouble remembering his phone number and the New York address of American Media, Inc. (AMI), where he had been CEO. AMI owns the National Enquirer.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it say it shows how out of step lawmakers are with young people.
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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyDonald Trump's legal payroll is easily the largest and most diverse of any political figure in modern U.S. history. But while most of the attorneys that Trump's various fundraising committees have paid over the years are a matter of public record, one of the top recipients still poses a mystery—with more than $8 million in legal costs going to an unknown firm, or firms, through what appears to be a corporate intermediary.
Legal experts told The Daily Beast that the arrangement masks the true recipients of a significant amount of Trump's legal bills, depriving the public of that information while possibly running afoul of federal law. And the unprecedented structure of those payments, the experts said, potentially violates the ban on corporate contributions.
For the last 15 months, five of Trump's political committees, including his 2024 campaign, have paid about $8 million in combined legal costs to a curious recipient: Red Curve Solutions, the firm that handles their political accounting.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan is paired with legislation to impose fresh rounds of sanctions on Iran and Russia and a measure that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the United States.
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