WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden urged the U.S. House to immediately take up Senate-passed supplemental funding for Ukraine and Israel on Monday as he hosted Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala in the Oval Office. The visit came as Biden aimed to highlight the efforts other nations are making to support Ukraine. It followed the Czech government’s announcement that it …
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Former President Trump arrived at a Manhattan court Monday as the hush money case officially kicks off, where he will face trial over 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. “Nothing like this has ever happened before,” Trump said at the courthouse Monday. “This is political persecution … it’s a case that should have never been brought.” …
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Energy and Commerce Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said it is her “biggest fear” as a parent for her children’s sensitive data to be exploited online, and she is aiming to quell those fears for herself and millions of Americans with a new federal data privacy standard. “There’s very dangerous activity online, and data collection is foundationally how these algorithms …
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The judge presiding over former President Trump’s hush money trial doubled down on his decision that footage of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape would not be shown to jurors. “I remain convinced at this moment … that the tape should not come in,” Judge Juan Merchan told the court on Monday. The 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape came to light ahead …
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The jury selection for former President Donald Trump’s trial centered on hush money payments to Stormy Daniels officially got underway in New York City on Monday, with lawyers for Trump and the state meeting with prospective jurors to decide who will sit to hear the case. Judge Juan Merchan is overseeing the case in which Trump has been charged with …
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Beverly LaHaye, the wife of the late evangelist Tim LaHaye and founder of Concerned Women for America (CWA), which describes itself as “the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization,” has passed away at the age of 94. CWA announced LaHaye died Sunday after forming the organization 45 years ago in “response to the feminist movement of the time that she …
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The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s hush money case declined to recuse himself after the 45th president’s attorneys requested his removal from the bench ahead of the trial kicking off Monday. “There is no agenda here,” Judge Juan Merchan said Monday ahead of rejecting the request, the New York Times reported. “We want to follow the law,” he …
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday that he will step down on May 15 after two decades at the helm, and hand power to his deputy Lawrence Wong. Lee, 72, will formally advise the city-state’s president to appoint Wong, who is currently deputy prime minister and finance minister, to succeed him, his office said in a brief statement. …
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Former President Trump’s plan for Ukraine aid to be granted as a loan could be the determining factor that pushes a supplemental aid package across the finish line in Congress. Several congressional aides on both sides of the aisle noted potential support for Trump’s idea for assistance to the country – which is in an ongoing war with Russia – …
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Despite a judge’s ruling that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey can now access Planned Parenthood patient records — the third such ruling against transgender health clinics that could potentially expose whether they’ve been offering puberty blockers and transgender surgeries to children — Missouri’s top lawyer says he’s still meeting significant “stonewalling.” Missouri’s Merchandising Practices Act allows Bailey to obtain patient …
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