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Barron Trump declines to be RNC delegate because of 'prior commitments'

by Brett Samuels - 05/10/24 4:47 PM ET Barron Trump, the youngest son of former President Trump, has declined the offer to serve as a delegate for Florida at this summer’s Republican National Convention (RNC). “While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” former first lady Melania Trump’s office said in a statement. The Florida GOP earlier this week said Barron Trump, who is 18, w ...

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Judge blasts Trump's subpoena to prosecutor as "improper fishing expedition"

5 hours ago New York Judge Juan Merchan on Friday rejected former President Trump's bid to subpoena former Manhattan assistant D.A. Mark Pomerantz as part of his ongoing hush money criminal trial. Why it matters: Trump's legal team had sought documents from Pomerantz's time at the Manhattan district attorney's office as well as some dated after his departure. Context: Pomerantz had helped lead the probe into Trump under former D.A. Cyrus Vance, but resigned in 2022 amidst Manhattan D.A. Alvi ...

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Rudy Giuliani suspended by New York radio station over 2020 election lies

Fri 10 May 2024 19.48 EDT The former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani's troubles deepened on Friday when he was suspended by WABC radio, for trying to use his show to discuss the lie that the 2020 presidential election was lost by Donald Trump because of electoral fraud. John Catsimatidis, a New York billionaire, Republican donor and owner of WABC, told the New York Times: "We're not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election. We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I g ...

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Republican lawmaker files articles of impeachment against President Biden

by JAMEL VALENCIA | The National Desk Fri, May 10th 2024 at 11:11 AM Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden over his threat to withhold offensive weapons from Israel, according to FOX News. The legislation accused Biden abusing his "presidential power." "In violation of his oath to faithfully execute the office of the president and to uphold the constitution, President Biden abused the powers of his office by soliciting a "q ...

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U.S. announces a new $400 million package of weapons for Ukraine

May 10, 2024 2:14 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced a new $400 million package of military aid for Ukraine on Friday, as Kyiv struggles to hold off advances by Russian troops in the northeast Kharkiv region. This is the third tranche of aid for Ukraine since Congress passed supplemental funding in late April after months of gridlock. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned Thursday that his country was facing “a really difficult situation” in the east, but said a new supp ...

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Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1billion to his campaign

(The Guardian) Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report. According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.

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Trump's "Lean" Ground Game Alarms State GOP Groups

(Washington Post) Strategists for both major parties expect Democrats to raise and spend more than Republicans over the coming months, a dynamic that has been magnified by the significant legal costs Trump’s fundraising apparatus has absorbed to defend him in state and federal courts. The situation has alarmed GOP officials in key states like Arizona, Georgia and Michigan, who have yet to receive promised funding, staff or even briefings on the new plans since the Trump team took control of the Republican National Committee in March.

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Lawrence O'Donnell: Why Trump's lawyer called him the 'orange turd' during Stormy testimony

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Stormy Daniels turned the tables on Trump. And he had to watch it happen.

(MSNBC) This week the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been sitting in a courtroom at 100 Center St. in New York, where adult film actor Stormy Daniels is testifying in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, including recounting the sexual encounter she had with him in a hotel room at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Daniels’ testimony, which continues Thursday, has been the kind of history-making, norms-crushing, mind-bending scene Americans have grown inured to. On Tuesday, sitting about 10 feet away from Trump, Daniels testified: “There was an imbalance of power, for sure. but I was not threatened verbally or physically.” That imbalance was, at least for a few hours, tipped against Trump.

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Giuliani claims he was booted from radio station because of 'trailer trash little creep' Joe Biden

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Confederate General's Descendant Rebukes Decision to Honor His Ancestor

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Donald Trump shuts down rumors about considering Nikki Haley for vice president

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Order banning transgender athletes from female sports at Nassau County facilities struck down by judge

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Billy Graham statue for U.S. Capitol to be unveiled next week

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Paul Pelosi attacker could go away for 40 years -- on enhanced charges of terrorism

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Trump-Appointed USPS Postmaster General Draws Republican Rebuke

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Federal judge temporarily halts Biden plan to lower credit card late fees to $8

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Clarence Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place'

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Biden Jokes Trump Should Have Injected Himself With Bleach

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Pharmacy exec sentenced in Michigan over deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak

11 hrs ago - May 10, 2024 6:08 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago May 10 (Reuters) - A former owner of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly U.S. fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was sentenced on Friday to at least 10 years in ... (Reuters)

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U.S. pledges money and other aid to help track and contain bird flu on dairy farms

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Explainer: US agency to unveil plan to ease power transmission crunch

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Amid GOP focus on elections, Georgia Republicans remove officer found to have voted illegally

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Judge floats possibility of bringing Allen Weisselberg into court

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Trump Hush-Money Payment Revealed in Bank Records

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GOP escalates fight with Secret Service over convention protesters

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