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Age and health have drawn intensive focus in the presidential race, but the recent news that two octogenarians in the Senate are running again has prompted little discussion of their age.
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President Biden is pushing for a broad deal that would get Israel to approve a Palestinian nation in return for Saudi recognition of Israel. But officials need to overcome Israeli opposition.
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 Sarah Silbiger/ReutersLast month, Donald Trump was indignant when it appeared that the judge in his hush-money trial might not let him have a day off from the proceedings in order to attend his son Barron's high school graduation. Trump said Barron "was looking forward for years to have graduation with his mother and father there" at the ceremony, but it looked like the judge wouldn't let him "escape this scam—it's a scam trial."
In the end, of course, Judge Juan Merchan did allow the former president a day off from the trial to go to the graduation, which is set to take place in Florida on Friday. Given how upset he was about the prospect of not being to spend the day with his son in the Sunshine State, it's perhaps a little surprising that he's planning to be at the opposite end of the country at a GOP fundraiser on Friday evening.
After the graduation at Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Trump will be heading off to Minnesota, according to the Associated Press. There, he's set to headline the state GOP's annual Lincoln Reagan dinner in St. Paul—tickets for the event start at $500 but go all the way up to $100,000 fo
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 TwitterA House Oversight Committee hearing—which was supposed to be cover contempt proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday night—quickly devolved into chaos after repeated interruptions from a certain far-right representative from Georgia.
The meeting, originally intended to advance a measure to hold Garland in contempt for refusing to hand over audio of President Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur, quickly fell off the rails, with Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) responsible for much of the drama and delay.
Republicans have been obsessed with Hur's investigation ever since the special counsel claimed that revealed Biden suffered memory loss during the interview. Biden on Thursday blocked access to the audio by invoking executive privilege, which was met with typical criticism from the committee's chair, Rep. James Comer (R-KY).
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The legislation has no chance of advancing in Congress or being signed into law. Republicans scheduled a vote anyway in an effort to spotlight Democratic divisions over Israel and rebuke the president.
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