Senate conservatives are urging Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to back off her attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), saying it's a waste of time and Congress has higher priorities ahead of the November election.
Greene filed her motion to vacate a month ago to protest the Speaker's handling of Ukraine aid, government spending and reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and Republicans have been dreading the moment when she forces a vote on the resolution. The Georgia Republican announced Wednesday she would move next week to bring it to the floor. |
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Pro-Palestinian student activists have one last opportunity to make a big impact before campuses are barren for the summer: commencement.
Tens of thousands of families and friends will flock to campuses across the country starting this weekend to see their loved ones celebrate the conclusion of the degree even as the schools crack down harder on the demonstrations, with more than 2,000 people arrested so far. |
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President Biden is betting on the middle.
Biden, a centrist Democrat who defeated several more progressive rivals in the 2020 primary, this week offered criticism of the college campus protests engulfing the nation, saying they would not change his policies on Israel's war in Gaza and would not be protected when they turned violent. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
NEW YORK — Salacious celebrity scandal peppered with foundation-building evidence defined the second week of testimony in former President Trump's New York criminal trial.
Witnesses this week began digging into the minutiae of the Manhattan district attorney's case, from bank records and non-disclosure agreements to text messages suggesting efforts to keep quiet negative stories about Trump to help his 2016 campaign. | |
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Former President Trump's trial closed out the week in dramatic style as former aide Hope Hicks took the stand. Hicks, who served as press secretary in the early, ramshackle days of Trump's first campaign for the presidency, went on to become his White House communications director. |
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took a shot at Fox News after a columnist for the outlet called her "an idiot" who is trying to "wreck the GOP." "Fox News called me an idiot. That was literally their headline. They called me an idiot," Greene said during an appearance on Steve Bannon's podcast this week. "But what I've done is expose what was already happening in the dark." |
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| The judge handling former President Trump's hush money case clarified Friday that Trump is allowed to testify during the trial, correcting the former president's assertion a day earlier that a gag order prevented him from doing so. Judge Juan Merchan at the start of Friday's proceedings in the case said it had come to his attention that there may be a misunderstanding about the gag order and Trump's ability to testify, calling it important to clear up. |
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Conservative lawyer George Conway said former Trump aide Hope Hicks' testimony at former President Trump's hush money trial "absolutely" corroborates his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen's story about Trump in the case. "She put in Donald Trump's mouth, the fact that he understood that those payments were made on his behalf before the election by Michael Cohen," Conway said on CNN's "The Situation Room" with host Wolf Blitzer, while speaking about Trump. |
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| Former President Trump on Friday complained about a recording of a phone call between him and Michael Cohen played as evidence during his hush money trial. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said the tape, "while good for my case, was cut off at the end, in the early stages of something very positive that I was in the midst of saying. Why was it cut off???" |
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| OPINION | The support for Ukraine aid exposed a fundamental division in the GOP. Traditional conservatives like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) pitched support for Ukraine as existential for the future of democracy, while "America First" conservatives opposed the aid. By and large, they claimed America shouldn't be sending money overseas when we have problems to solve at home. It's a nice sentiment, except that these "America First" senators aren't actually working to solve the domestic problems they complain about. They cannot put America First when they fail to see America as it is. |
OPINION | Joe Biden and Donald Trump are neck and neck in national polls. Biden doesn't need to win as many states as he did last time to be reelected. That's a good thing for the Biden campaign, because he almost certainly won't. Trump is ahead by 4 percentage points or more in Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina and Nevada, all crucial swing states, according to RCP averages. Biden's best hope for reelection is through a clean sweep of the Rust Belt: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. He has a decent chance to do just that, as he is currently statistically tied in polling averages for all three states. |
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BY GULSIN HARMAN, AARON BOXERMAN, BEN HUBBARD, AND THOMAS FULLAR |
Turkey said on Friday that it would suspend all trade with Israel until there was a "permanent cease-fire" in the Gaza Strip, the latest international sanction against Israel and one that underscores the mounting global pressure to end the war in the territory. |
Elon Musk likes to say he doesn't want to be CEO of Tesla But the chief executive has spent the past weeks dramatically reworking the automaker in ways that make the person in the CEO chair even more crucial to its future. |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations food agency warned Sudan's warring parties Friday that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan if they don't allow humanitarian aid into the vast western region. |
BY NILO TABRIZY, IMOGEN PIPER AND MIRIAM BERGER |
This was the Gaza Strip in April 2023. Before the war, farmers grew tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers and more. Olive groves flourished. |
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