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Biden Revisits His Past in Interview With Howard Stern

(New York Times) In a surprise interview on “The Howard Stern Show” that lasted for more than an hour, Mr. Stern, a skilled interviewer versed in the art of oversharing, repeatedly asked Mr. Biden to revisit the stories of love and loss that have defined his public image. At the end of Friday’s sit-down, Mr. Stern praised Mr. Biden, listing off the president’s policy wins and praising his ability to overcome tragedy. “I know you’d be a good father to the country, and I want to thank you for providing a calming, influential and organized administration,” Mr. Stern told Mr. Biden.

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Secretary Buttigieg and Black mayors preview transportation projects designed to heal historic inequities

(CNN) Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday joined Black mayors from across the nation to preview the work his department is doing to bring transportation projects to their communities to correct historic wrongs. The projects, made possible through the Biden administration’s $3.3 billion “Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods” program, were among the issues discussed at the annual African American Mayors Association Conference in Atlanta. More than 130 grants have been awarded across 41 states to improve the lives of residents negatively impacted by decades-old transportation structures, according to Buttigieg.

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UK forces may be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid

(BBC) British troops could be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route, the BBC has learned. The US has said no American forces would go ashore and an unnamed "third party" would drive trucks along a floating causeway onto the beach. The UK is understood to be considering tasking British troops with this when the aid corridor opens next month. Whitehall sources said no decision had been made and the issue had not yet crossed the prime minister's desk. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Israeli army declined to comment.

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Kristi Noem's VP Odds Crash After Dog Killing Revelation

(Newsweek) "I hated that dog," Noem writes in No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, adding Cricket was "untrainable" and "dangerous to anyone she came in contact with." "At that moment," Noem adds, "I realized I had to put her down." Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House communications director turned critic of the former president, posted on X, previously called Twitter: "I'm a dog lover and I am honestly horrified by the Kristi Noem excerpt. I wish I hadn't even read it. A 14-month-old dog is still a puppy and can be trained. A large part of bad behavior in dogs is not having proper training from humans.

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Student Protest Leader at Columbia: 'Zionists Don't Deserve to Live'

Video of incendiary comments by one of the leaders of the student protest encampment at Columbia University surfaced online Thursday evening, forcing the school to again confront an issue at the core of the conflict rippling across campuses nationwide: the tension between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism. The student, Khymani James, said in the January video that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” Mr. James made the c ...

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Biden Delays Ban on Menthol Cigarettes

The Biden administration said on Friday that it was delaying a decision on whether to ban menthol cigarettes as federal officials take more time to consider the move. The White House has faced considerable opposition from the big tobacco companies that could lose billions of dollars from the move. But the proposal has also posed risks for President Biden in an election year because of his weakening support among Black voters, some of whom view it as heavy-handed. “This rule has garnered histor ...

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Tornado tears through Nebraska, causing severe damage in Omaha suburbs

By JOSH FUNK and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Updated 5:34 PM CDT, April 26, 2024 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday afternoon, destroying homes and other structures as the twister tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Injuries were reported but it wasn't yet clear if anyone was killed in the storm. Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha, a ...

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Florida GOP Rep. Posey abruptly announces retirement

04/26/2024 03:43 PM EDT TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) abruptly announced on Friday that he will not seek reelection, after initially planning to run for another term. Posey’s announcement — if made earlier — could have easily attracted a spirited Republican primary, with politicians from the state’s Space Coast region already eyeing the seat once Posey retired. Florida’s 8th congressional district is a solid Republican seat. Instead the 76-year-old incumbent’s announcement ...

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Cupcake-swiping Jan. 6 rioter blew off medical supply job to join Capitol raid, got fired: Feds

Apr 26th, 2024, 2:49 pm A Louisiana man who blew off work to go to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — when he was allegedly seen on video taking a box of chocolate cupcakes off a table during the riots — and later got fired has been arrested, authorities said. Matthew Ryan Matulich, 34, faces misdemeanor charges of trespassing, disorderly conduct, and picketing in a Capitol building, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced in a news release. The statement of facts outlines the allegat ...

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Without drama or fanfare, Biden advances policies that matter

(MSNBC) To be sure, some of President Joe Biden’s recent accomplishments have been dramatic in their own right. After all, the Democrat recently helped prevent a war between Israel and Iran, while carefully navigating the congressional process on a critically important security aid package. But that’s not all the incumbent president and his administration have been up to.

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Moscow may seize private US assets in Russia if US seizes frozen reserves, says Putin ally

37 min ago - April 27, 2024 9:47 AM EDT Updated 6 hours ago MOSCOW, April 27 (Reuters) - Russia may respond to any U.S. confiscation of its currency reserves frozen in the West by seizing the assets, including property and cash, of U.S. citizens and investors in ... (Reuters)

City Council calls for investigation of District Attorney Sandra Doorley

56 min ago - by: Damon Fletcher Updated: Apr 27, 2024 / 01:28 PM EDT ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – Members of Rochester City Council have written a letter to New York State Attorney General Letitia James calling for an investigation into the conduct of Monroe Co ... (rochesterfirst.com)

Yemen's Houthi rebels claim downing US Reaper drone, release footage showing wreckage of aircraft

1 hr ago - April 27, 2024, 11:21 AM JERUSALEM -- JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday claimed shooting down another of the U.S. military's MQ-9 Reaper drones, airing footage of parts that corresponded to known pieces of the unmanned aircraft. ... (ABC News/AP)

Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York from upstate prison

1 hr ago - Updated 3:22 PM EDT, April 27, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) -- Harvey Weinstein's lawyer said Saturday that the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his ... (AP)

RFK Jr. repeats debunked vaccine claims in interview with Bill Maher

2 hrs ago - Published April 27, 2024 11:30AM (EDT) Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made an appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, pushing back on claims that he is “anti-vaccine.” Maher began the segment by pressi ... (Salon)

Fire still burning after freight train derails on Arizona-New Mexico state line

3 hrs ago - April 27, 2024 / 11:20 AM EDT A freight train carrying fuel derailed and caught fire Friday near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the closure of an interstate highway that serves as a key trucking route. As of Saturday morning, the fire was ... (CBS News/AP)

A 'coat hanger' could unlock Mar-a-Lago storage room where Trump stored classified docs: Witness

4 hrs ago - The account was relayed to FBI agents by an unidentified aide to Trump. By Alexander Mallin and Katherine Faulders April 27, 2024, 9:26 AM A coat hanger or "very tiny screwdriver" could be used to unlock the Mar-a-Lago storage room where former Pres ... (abc news)

Russian oil refineries and military airfield targeted in drone attack, as thermal energy plants are damaged in Ukraine

4 hrs ago - Updated 9:37 AM EDT, Sat April 27, 2024 CNN — Ukraine launched drone attacks on Russia’s Kushchevsk military airfield in the southern Krasnodar region, as well as two oil refineries, a source with knowledge of the operation told CNN. The ... (CNN World)

New federal rules give farmworkers more rights and protections

6 hrs ago - Fri, April 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM EDT SANTA ROSA, Calif. - The acting U.S. Labor Secretary came to Santa Rosa's Balletto Vineyards on Friday to announce new labor regulations to better protect the nation's 1.6 million farmworkers, effective June 28. Ba ... (Yahoo! News/KTVU Oakland, CA)

GOP Rep. Scott Perry Flip-Flops On Whether He Backs A National Abortion Ban

6 hrs ago - 05:30 AM EDT | Updated 2 hours ago Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) has been making a point lately of telling voters that he doesn’t support a nationwide abortion ban. In a Thursday interview with a local news station, FOX43, Perry said he agrees with ... (Huff Post)

Kristi Noem's VP Odds Crash After Dog Killing Revelation

6 hrs ago - "I hated that dog," Noem writes in No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, adding Cricket was "untrainable" and "dangerous to anyone she came in contact with." "At that moment," Noem adds, "I realized I ... (Newsweek)

White House plans to limit Biden's graduation speeches as campuses erupt in protests

7 hrs ago - April 27, 2024, 5:00 AM EDT WASHINGTON — Amid growing protests on college campuses by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, the White House is planning for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to have a minimal presence for a traditiona ... (NBC News)

UK forces may be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid

7 hrs ago - 5 hours ago British troops could be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route, the BBC has learned. The US has said no American forces would go ashore and an unnamed "third party" would drive trucks along a floating cause ... (BBC)

US Agencies Say Putin Didn't Order Navalny's February Death: WSJ

8 hrs ago - April 27, 2024 at 12:30 AM EDT US intelligence agencies have found that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn’t order opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death at a prison camp in February, the Wall Street Journal reported. While the ... (Bloomberg)

UAW strike at Daimler Truck averted at 11th hour

8 hrs ago - April 26, 2024 11:21 PM ET The United Auto Workers union announced late Friday it had struck a favorable new contract deal for 7,300 Daimler Truck North America workers. The union had threatened a strike starting at midnight when their last contract ... (NPR)

Cyberattack forces Georgia county to sever connection to state voter registration system

9 hrs ago - Updated 8:53 PM EDT, Fri April 26, 2024 CNN — Georgia’s Coffee County suffered a cyberattack this month that forced the county to sever its connection to the state’s voter registration system as a precautionary measure, three sources ... (CNN Politics)

Republic First Bank seized by regulators, sold to Fulton Bank

9 hrs ago - 11 hours ago Republic First, a small Pennsylvania lender doing business as Republic Bank, was seized Friday by regulators who sold most of its assets and liabilities to rival Fulton Bank. Why it matters: The Fed's rate hikes have slashed the value of ... (Axios)

Giuliani tells bankruptcy judge successful appeal of 148M defamation judgment for slandering election workers will help

10 hrs ago - Apr 26th, 2024, 6:43 pm Rudy Giuliani on Friday asked a federal judge in New York City to modify the stay of his bankruptcy case to allow him to appeal the $148 million defamation verdict won by former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandr ... (Law & Crime)

Secretary Buttigieg and Black mayors preview transportation projects designed to heal historic inequities

10 hrs ago - Published 6:29 PM EDT, Fri April 26, 2024 CNN — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday joined Black mayors from across the nation to preview the work his department is doing to bring transportation projects to their communities to co ... (CNN Politics)

White House bolsters transgender health protections, rolls back Trump admin rule

11 hrs ago - 04/26/24 6:00 PM ET The Biden administration is bolstering health care protections against discrimination for gay and transgender people, reversing a Trump administration rule that gutted the protections. In a wide-ranging final rule released Friday ... (The Hill)

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