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Judge indefinitely delays Trump's classified documents trial in Florida — U.S. Judge Aileen M. Cannon said there are too many pre-trial issues to address to set a new trial date now — Donald Trump's Florida trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents and obstructing government efforts …
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Axios:
Trump's federal classified docs trial date postponed indefinitely … - Trump has successfully pushed for delays in multiple criminal trials ahead of November's election.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge Cannon indefinitely postpones Trump's classified docs trial — The date had been widely expected to move amid a tangle of pretrial conflicts between special counsel Jack Smith and Trump's attorneys. — The judge presiding over Donald Trump's criminal case in Florida …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Pushes Back Critical Filing Deadline in Trump Documents Case — Judge Aileen M. Cannon did not immediately set a new date, but the delay increases the chance that the trial will not happen before the November election. — Reversing one of her own decisions, the federal judge overseeing …
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Stormy Daniels Is Expected to Testify in Trump's Trial — Ms. Daniels, who received $130,000 in hush money to keep silent about her story of having had sex with Donald J. Trump, is at the center of the case against him. — Here's the latest on the trial.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
NY v Trump: Judge denies motion for mistrial amid Stormy Daniels testimony — Stormy Daniels has been testifying in Trump's criminal trial — Former President Trump's defense attorneys are moving for a mistrial amid the testimony of pornographic actress Stormy Daniels.
Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels testifies, Trump curses in an angry day in court — Judge expresses alarm at Trump's cursing amid disturbing testimony about sex. — NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of Donald Trump's hush money trial, testified Tuesday about a disturbing sexual encounter …
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CBS News:
Trump trial live updates as Stormy Daniels testifies today
Trump trial live updates as Stormy Daniels testifies today
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Edith Olmsted / The Daily Beast:
Boy Scouts of America Gets New Name to Reflect Its Newest Members — REBRAND — This isn't the first time the organization has sought to change its moniker. — After more than 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America are getting a rebrand. — On Tuesday, the organization announced …
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Jamie Stengle / Associated Press:
Boy Scouts of America changing name to more inclusive Scouting America after years of woes — The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history. The Texas-based organization is announcing at its annual meeting in Florida on Tuesday that it will become Scouting America.
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Politico:
US concerns over Israel's Gaza policy led to weapons holdup — The munitions were ready to be shipped to Israel when the administration placed the hold. — The Biden administration is holding up shipments of two types of Boeing-made precision bombs to send a political message to Israel …
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James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Donald Trump to Attend Fundraiser on Day of Barron's Graduation — Donald Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at the Minnesota Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on May 17, the same day he requested off court to attend his son Barron Trump's graduation ceremony.
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Associated Press:
TikTok sues US to block law that could ban the social media platform — TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the U.S. over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it's sold to another company, arguing that it vaguely paints it as a threat to national security to get around the First Amendment.
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Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
TikTok Sues to Block U.S. Ban
TikTok Sues to Block U.S. Ban
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NBC News:
TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment
TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment
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Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
New York governor regrets saying Black kids in the Bronx don't know what a computer is — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested Black children in the Bronx do not know what the word “computer” means. Hochul, a Democrat, made the extemporaneous comment Monday …
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Vaughn Golden / New York Post:
Hochul slammed for saying black kids in the Bronx don't know what the word ‘computer’ means
Hochul slammed for saying black kids in the Bronx don't know what the word ‘computer’ means
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CNN:
Newly unsealed grand jury testimony from Trump's valet helps explain FBI's desire to search Mar-a-Lago — Donald Trump's valet told investigators before the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago in 2022 that he randomly chose boxes of documents to return to the National Archives and Trump himself directed …
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Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon:
Judge Cannon's secret right-wing getaway: Why didn't we know about this? — Federal judge in Trump's documents trial didn't tell us about those right-wing conferences at a Montana resort — Let me ask you a question: How many all-expenses-paid vacations at luxury hunting and fishing lodges have you enjoyed over the last few years?
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Politico:
House Republicans turn to K-12 schools after months of rattling colleges — “Trying to create gotcha moments and viral moments is not how you ultimately solve problems that you deeply care about,” the chancellor of New York City schools said. — Republican lawmakers incensed over antisemitism …
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Associated Press:
Semi-automatic gun ban nixed in Colorado's Democratic-controlled statehouse after historic progress — DENVER (AP) — A bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms was nixed in Colorado's Democratic-controlled Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed forward with a slew …
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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Most college students shrug at nationwide protests — College protests against Israel's war in Gaza are dominating headlines. But only a sliver of students are participating or view it as a top issue, according to a new Generation Lab survey shared exclusively with Axios.
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won't do it — He had an extraordinary opportunity, upon taking over from Dean Baquet, to right the ship: to recognize that the Times was not warning sufficiently of the threat to democracy presented by a second Trump presidency.
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ABC News:
Trump privately urged Greene to drop push to oust Speaker Johnson — Trump told Greene that the party needs to be unified, a source said. — Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene both seen leaving their meeting at the US Capitol, May 6, 2024.
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Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
Mike Johnson defends private MTG meetings as motion to vacate lingers
Mike Johnson defends private MTG meetings as motion to vacate lingers
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Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump Is Planning To Send Kill Teams to Mexico to Take Out Cartel Leaders — Trump has told allies about his plans to covertly send Special Forces to Mexico to assassinate drug kingpins, sources tell Rolling Stone — IF HE WINS a second term in November, Donald Trump wants …
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Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Trump on going to jail over gag order: 'I'll do that sacrifice' — The judge has threatened the former president with possible jail time, something Trump and his supporters think may bolster his campaign. — Donald Trump said he would rather risk imprisonment than comply with a gag order …
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