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April 20, 2024
NBC News

Foreign Aid Bill Will Get Vote

The House voted 316-94 to tee up votes on four separate bills that include aid to Ukraine and Israel, a good sign for the prospects of Congress approving U.S. funding for the two countries after months of delay.
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LA Times

USC Commencement Speakers "Released"

Amid a controversy over the USC’s decision to cancel its valedictorian speech, the school has decided to "release" outside speakers and honorary degree recipients from participating in the commencement ceremony.
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CBS News

"We Have Our Full Panel"

Twelve jurors and two alternates have now been seated in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York, which could begin opening arguments as soon as Monday.
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USA Today

Columbine at 25 Years

The massacre at Columbine on April 20, 1999, during which 12 students and one teacher were killed, wasn't the United States' first mass shooting at a school, nor would it be the last.
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CNN

RFK Jr. Ally Wants Him To Quit

Environmental groups are condemning RFK Jr.’s presidential bid and his environmental policy in new efforts, portraying him as a candidate who will increase the chances former President Donald Trump is reelected.
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The Hill

Move Grows To Oust Speaker Johnson

Rep. Paul Gosar announced that he will co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resolution to remove Speaker Mike Johnson from the House’s top job, becoming the third House Republican to back his ouster.
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NPR

Anglo Names Get Scientific Mention

When a Chinese national and accomplished biologist recently petitioned the U.S. to become a permanent resident, he thought his chances were pretty good having met the EB-1A visa’s requirement of “extraordinary ability.”
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Politico

The Way To Fix Social Media: Edit

The promises from the Silicon Valley witnesses at these now routine congressional hearings to work harder and do better are meaningless because they do not manage the volume and velocity of what gets posted.
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Real Clear Politics

Time for a Bipartisan Presidency

Although Joe Biden is a lifelong Democrat, his political career was long defined by bipartisan compromises and reaching out to the Republican Party with legislative compromises and, notably, personal friendships.
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Rolling Stone

Matty Healy Inspired Taylor Swift

We were already prepared for the devastation Taylor Swift’s eleventh album The Tortured Poets Department might yield but no one could have imagined that she had two albums’ worth of material for everyone to sift through.
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Mediaite

Musk Opposes Forced Sale of TikTok

The owner of X, formerly Twitter, sent out a post noting that he is against banning the platform even though it would benefit X. Musk added that a ban is “contrary to freedom of speech” and “not what America stands for.”
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The Verge

Tesla Recalling All Cybertrucks

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Wednesday, the defect can result in the pedal pad dislodging and becoming trapped in the vehicle’s interior trim when “high force is applied.”
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Washington Post

RFK Jr. Impact Is Mixed

That’s the obvious point: the major-party candidates fear Kennedy will pull away voters they need to eke out a majority in a state. Each man won the presidency thanks to narrow margins in a handful of states.
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Washington Post

10 Documents To Keep, Shred the Rest

Are your financial documents stuffed in a closet, files, shopping bags or stacked up on the floor? You may prefer to view it as organized chaos. But isn't it really your inability to discern what you need and what you should let go?
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The Buffalo News

Graydon Carter Opens a Newsstand

Graydon Carter, former chief of Vanity Fair, has gone back to the future.Carter has today opened a newsstand in NYC’s West Village. It’s named for his Air Mail subscriber online magazine. Call it retro cool!
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Hollywood Reporter

Pulp Fiction Cast Reunites

Original cast members John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Harvey Keitel reunited to celebrate the film, along with support from Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma, and daughter Tallulah.
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New York Post

The Privileged Protestors

It takes privilege to protest at Columbia. The 114 anti-Israel protesters who were busted at Columbia on Thursday include members of the upper crust coming from wealthy and powerful families.
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Associated Press

Today Is 420

A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis was to stop the harm caused by disproportionate enforcement of drug laws that sent millions of Black, Latino and other minority Americans to prison.
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