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Top News Stories for Wednesday, May 8th 2024
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
Former president Donald Trump 's criminal trial is off today for its regularly scheduled weekly break, but the defense will continue its intense cross examination of witness Stormy Daniels Thursday morning. On Monday, the beginning of week four of the trial , prosecutors said they were roughly halfway through their case, according to NBC New s. Trump complained that the trial is taking too long while leaving the ...
Source: usatoday.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
Israel struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after seizing the main border crossing with Egypt, where negotiators were working to make good on their "last chance" to cement a ceasefire deal. After weeks of vowing to launch a ground incursion into the border city of Rafah despite international objections, Israeli tanks moved in Tuesday, capturing the crossing that has served as the main conduit for aid into ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance launched legal action against the US government on Tuesday after it passed sell-or-ban legislation targeting the short video app. TikTok argues that the law signed by president Joe Biden in April that forces its Chinese owners to divest in nine months violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution. According to the lawsuit, TikTok said "for the first time in history, ...
Source: technode.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
TOPICS: NASA 's Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station has been postponed to no earlier than May 17 due to a faulty valve in the Atlas V rocket's upper stage. The United Launch Alliance will replace the valve after discovering issues during prelaunch checks. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams remain in quarantine at NASA Kennedy, awaiting the next launch opportunity. NASA's Boeing Crew ...
Source: scitechdaily.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday condemned a "ferocious surge of antisemitism" in the United States following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel and said people were already forgetting the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance, Biden tied the anti-Jewish sentiment that led to the Nazi effort to exterminate Jews directly to ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON – When Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her plans to oust Mike Johnson from the speakership, the conservative agitator committed to follow through on her threats and call a vote on the speaker's future. But it's been more than a month since then and Greene, R-Ga., has yet to force a House vote on removing Johnson, R-La., despite her repeated statements that she will do so – whenever that is. ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 -
SEOUL, May 8 (UPI) -- Kim Ki Nam, the North Korean official who oversaw the isolated regime's propaganda efforts and helped shape the cult of personality around the ruling Kim family dynasty, died at the age of 94, state media reported Wednesday. The former secretary of the Central Committee of the North's ruling Workers' Party of Korea died Tuesday from multiple organ failure, according to the official Korean ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents case, punting some court dates into late July while declining to set a trial date. The Tuesday order — issued less than two weeks before Trump's trial was still on the books to kick off on May 20 — leaves unclear when Trump's case will ever come before a jury. Cannon pinned the delay on the need to ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON – Improved performance by the U.S. economy has prompted the federal government to push back its projections for when Social Security and Medicare could run out of money. Annual reports issued Monday by trustees to the two programs still warn that policy changes are needed to avoid cuts in benefits down the road. As it stands now, without changes Social Security is projected to be unable to pay full ...
Source: cleveland.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has said she "misspoke" when she claimed some Black children in the Bronx don't know the word "computer." On Monday, the governor was highlighting her $400 million artificial intelligence initiative at a meeting of billionaires and business leaders in California when she said , "Right now, we have young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word 'computer' ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The suspected plot is particularly notable because of the alleged involvement of two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which is tasked with protecting top officials. Ukraine's security service (SBU) said it has foiled a Russian plot to kidnap and assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and kill other top Ukrainian officials. Two serving colonels from the Ukrainian government's own protection unit have been ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan , a Republican, is bucking his party and endorsing President Joe Biden over Donald Trump in this year's election. "This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Duncan wrote that the GOP can't rebuild until it rebukes Trump, who he ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A group of 13 conservative US federal judges are vowing to not hire Columbia University law students or undergraduates because of how the school has handled pro-Palestinian demonstrations on its campus in recent weeks. The judges sent a letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik and the dean of Columbia's law school Gillian Lester , on Monday, outlining their position and describing the Manhattan campus as ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday said abortion rights advocates can proceed with lawsuits against Alabama's attorney general over threats to prosecute people who help women travel to another state to terminate pregnancies. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson denied Attorney General Steve Marshall's request to dismiss the case. The groups said Marshall has suggested anti-conspiracy laws could ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Fayette Janitorial Service was also ordered to change practices that the Labor Department said had led to the hiring of at least two dozen children in dangerous slaughterhouses and meatpacking facilities. Listen to this article · 4:11 min A Tennessee-based sanitation company has been fined more than $649,000 after an investigation revealed that it had illegally employed at least two dozen children at ...
Source: nytimes.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday told Kristi Noem to "stop digging herself in a hole" after the South Dakota governor suggested that President Joe Biden 's dog Commander be put down. (Watch the video below.) Noem turbocharged a rocky rollout of her new book, " No Going Back ," by defending a passage in which she described shooting her 14-month-old dog Cricket over behavioral problems. She went further in an interview ...
Source: huffpost.com