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Witness testimony continued Thursday in Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates from court, analysis and more.
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 Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty ImagesKHARKIV, Ukraine—After months of infighting on Capitol Hill, President Joe Biden has finally been able to sign off on a huge new $61 billion military aid bill for Ukraine. Delays to the bill, which got bogged down in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, were widely blamed for impacting Kyiv's ability to defend itself from Russian advances.
After its passage last week, some members of the House waved Ukrainian flags while others cheered in celebration that Ukraine will soon receive new weapons ahead of Russia's expected counteroffensive. Signing it into law at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, Biden promised the arms shipments would begin immediately and hailed what he called "a good day for world peace."
The reaction here, near the front lines of the war, felt very different.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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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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Arguments heard in late April almost always yield decisions near the end of the court's term, in late June or early July.
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At least 320 bodies have been discovered buried in a mass grave at the destroyed Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, just weeks after a similar mass grave containing up to 400 bodies was discovered amid the ruins of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Some of the bodies, which include children, medical staff and patients, appear to have been executed or buried alive. Meanwhile, Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza as its assault of the beleaguered enclave surpasses 200 days. "Every single body that is being unearthed, you find tens of people rushing for the sake of identifying whether those are their relatives," says Akram al-Satarri, a journalist based in Gaza. "Some of the people were tied. Some of the people had medical accessories on their hands, like the cannulas. And when they were unearthed from the ground, it was apparent that they were buried alive. Some people were tortured. Some of the bodies were extremely mutilated, which means that those bodies, some of their organs were taken by the Israeli occupation."
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Several justices signaled interest in some protections for official acts, which could impede a swift trial in the federal election subversion case.
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The Supreme Court is weighing Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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Conservative justices seemed focused on preventing runaway prosecutions of future presidents. Liberals worried about lawless kings. And other key takeaways.
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 Jeenah Moon/Getty ImagesTabloid boss David Pecker took the stand at Donald Trump's hush-money trial for the third day on Thursday, testifying about his scheme to bury a Playboy Playmate's affair story that could've damaged the former president's campaign.
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass began questioning on Thursday by having Pecker walk the jury through the evolution of a $150,000 payment that Enquirer parent company American Media Inc. (AMI) made to Playmate Karen McDougal for the exclusive rights to her life story.
Pecker said former Enquirer Editor-in-Chief Dylan Howard approached him in June 2016 and said a source had called to say McDougal was trying to sell a story about a year-long "romantic" relationship she'd had with Trump.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The transport secretary says there is "nothing" in Labour's plan that will make rail services better for passengers.
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The government says the plans are "pointless" and "unfunded" but Labour says it will improve services.
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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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Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Michael Dreeben, speaking for the government, and D. John Sauer, the lawyer for Donald J. Trump, have played roles in some of the legal battles stemming from his term in office.
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Indictments in Arizona and new information in Michigan shows the scale of the effort to keep Donald Trump in power.
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The money from Washington, which includes $5 billion to replenish Israel's defenses and $1 billion for Gazan civilians, comes as Israel readies to invade Rafah.
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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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The $95.3 billion measure comes after months of gridlock in Congress that put the centerpiece of President Biden's foreign policy in jeopardy.
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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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We speak with Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba's deputy minister of foreign affairs, about high-level U.S.-Cuban migration talks held last week in Washington. He says U.S. policies that expedite permanent residency for Cubans in the United States play a major role in the movement of people between the two countries, but adds that the main driver of migration is the decadeslong U.S. embargo. "The economic conditions of the people of Cuba push them to migrate, and an important fact in provoking those conditions are U.S. deliberate policies of destroying the Cuban economy and make it unworkable." Fernández de Cossío also discusses the 2024 election and policy overlap between the Trump and Biden administrations, Cuba's position on the U.S.-backed Israeli war on Gaza, recent protests inside Cuba over living conditions and more.
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The overwhelming bipartisan vote for the long-stalled $95.3 billion aid package capped a tortured journey for the legislation on Capitol Hill. President Biden is expected to quickly sign it.
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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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