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Former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial continues in New York. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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At Morehouse College, students and faculty were divided over inviting President Joe Biden to receive an honorary degree and give a speech at the school's commencement ceremony. Morehouse valedictorian DeAngelo Fletcher, who had a Palestinian flag affixed to his graduation cap, called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza during his speech, and assistant professor of sociology Taura Taylor stood with her fist raised, facing away from Biden as he addressed the crowd. "I wanted to take it upon myself to, one, stand up for my principles, and then also kind of stand in solidarity for my students as well as my other fellow faculty members who felt that we were caught in this moment where it seemed like we, as a community, selected Biden, when we all did not," says Taylor. We also speak with Samuel Livingston, an associate professor of Africana studies, who held a flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo behind Biden as he spoke. "We held up the flag because the people of the Congo do not get enough media attention in terms of the active genocide that the United States is supporting through its support of Rwanda," says Livingston. "Congo deserves justice, reparations from the United States for the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, conspiring in that assassination, and the people today deserve a country that is built on peace and justice."
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, along with other top officials. Today on "Post Reports," the reactions to his death from within Iran and worldwide - and what it will mean for the country's leadership.
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President Biden said it was "outrageous" that ICC prosecutor Karim Khan had applied for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, while some liberal Democrats cheered the court's move.
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Tehran has concluded that a regional reordering is underway. The death of the president and foreign minister won't change that.
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 Azin Haghighi/Anadolu via Getty ImagesAn Israeli official has gone on the record to deny their country was behind the helicopter crash which claimed the lives of Iran's president, foreign minister, and others Sunday.
President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and the six other passengers on board the chopper that went down in poor weather conditions were all confirmed dead Monday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. An anonymous Israeli official told Reuters that Israel was not responsible for the incident, simply saying: "It wasn't us."
The wreckage of the crash was found early Monday in a mountainous area following a massive search and rescue operation that ran through the night. Reports had emerged a day earlier that the helicopter had suffered a "hard landing" as Raisi was traveling from the Iran-Azerbaijan border—where he'd been inaugurating a dam—on the way to the Iranian city of Tabriz.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Reuters/Evelyn HocksteinHunter Biden's lawyers motioned Monday to again ask a judge to push back his federal gun trial that's slated to begin next month in Delaware, arguing in part there's no need for the case to push forward so quick.
His lawyers are also arguing the trial, scheduled to begin June 3, would push too close to a separate trial the president's son faces in California on tax charges.
"There is no urgency in having an immediate trial of Robert Hunter Biden, but the district court is pressing forward with a June 3, 2024 trial and imposing all the pretrial burdens that come with that," Biden's lawyers wrote in Monday's filing.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Flights sending Venezuelans back to their homeland have not taken off for two weeks. The move is a setback to President Biden's effort to tackle a migration surge.
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President Biden has tried to contain a surge of migration by embracing, or at least tolerating, some of his predecessor's approaches.
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