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The House of Representatives approved a series of foreign aid bills on Saturday that allocate substantial funds, including $60.8 billion for Ukraine’s aid, $26.38 billion for Israel’s assistance, and $8 billion towards…

Unbiased headline news forThursday April 18, 2024 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his country would be the one to decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint from close allies. “Israel will decide for itself how to respond to the Iranian attack,” Netanyahu stated firmly, dismissing pleas from international partners to exercise caution. The region remains on edge, bracing for potential further escalation after months of unrest linked to the ongoing conflict in Gaza. — Group of Seven foreign ministers met on the Italian resort island of Capri, with the agenda topped by calls for targeted new sanctions against Iran over its attack against Israel and more aid to Ukraine to fight Russia’s war. Under Italy’s stewardship of the rotating presidency, the G7 leaders issued a united call for Israel to exercise restraint after Iran’s unprecedented weekend attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles fired toward the Jewish state. The ministers emphasized the need for concerted international action to hold Iran accountable. — The Solomon Islands’ closer relationship with China and a troubled domestic economy weighed on voters’ minds as they casted their ballots. As many as 420,000 registered voters had their say across 50 national seats. For the first time, the national vote also coincided with elections for eight of the 10 local governments. Opposition candidates have campaigned on re-examining elements of the Chinese relationship, including the 2022 security pact with Beijing, as a key issue for the electorate. — Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving Stormy Daniels a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president’s criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away. A process server working for Trump’s lawyers said he approached Daniels with papers demanding information related to a documentary recently released about her life and involvement with Trump, but was forced to “leave them at her feet,” according to a court filing made public. — A man was sentenced to 47 years to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a state park in upstate New York last year. Craig N. Ross Jr. pleaded guilty in February to taking the girl in September from a campground at Moreau Lake State Park, a rural area about 35 miles north of Albany. The disappearance sparked a 48-hour-search that ended when she was found alive at a camper Ross was staying in. — A Minnesota toddler who fell from a South Dakota hotel’s third-floor window has died. Kathryn and Alex Hein of Lakefield Minnesota, wrote in a Facebook post that their year-old son, Madden died Monday, two days after falling at Club House Hotel & Suites in Sioux Falls. “It is with heavy hearts to say that our sweet baby boy Madden gained his angel wings late on April 15th,” the couple wrote. Police are investigating the boy’s death. — The New York state Legislature’s bill drafting office was hit with an apparent cyberattack, officials said. The scope of the attack was not immediately clear, but officials said the bill drafting system has been down since early Wednesday. The office is responsible for printing legislation for lawmakers at the state Capitol in Albany. The apparent cyberattack came as the Legislature is moving to finalize its state budget bills. — Ford is recalling more than 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles due to a battery detection issue that can result in loss of drive power, increasing crash risks. According to documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the body and power train control modules for these cars may fail to detect changes in battery charge. When undetected, a low battery charge can cause an unexpected loss of drive power — including sudden stalling or inability to restart.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been paying President Joe Biden’s legal fees incurred in connection with the investigation by special counsel Robert Hur into Biden’s handling of classified documents. This has been a point of contention, with the Republican National Committee (RNC) criticizing the DNC for using party funds to cover Biden’s personal legal expenses. According to sources and disclosures of expenditures filed by the DNC, the party committee has paid the law firm of Bob Bauer, the lead attorney representing Biden in Hur’s investigation, more than $1 million since last year – roughly $150,000 per month from July 2023 through February 2024. The DNC has also paid approximately $905,000 to Hemenway & Barnes LLP, the law firm of Jennifer Miller, who is named as one of the attorneys representing Biden in the special counsel probe. However, Hemenway & Barnes LLP has long represented the DNC, so it’s unclear how much of that payment was specifically for Biden’s legal fees. In contrast, the RNC has faced criticism from the Democrats for paying the legal fees of former President Donald Trump. The RNC has spent millions of dollars on Trump’s personal legal defense, including fees related to investigations into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and his handling of classified documents after leaving office. Democrats have argued that it is inappropriate for the RNC, which is meant to represent the broader Republican Party, to be using party funds to cover the legal expenses of a single individual, especially one who is no longer in office. They have accused the RNC of prioritizing the defense of Trump over the needs of the party as a whole. In contrast, the DNC has argued that it is appropriate for the party to support the legal defense of the sitting president, as the president’s legal issues could have broader implications for the party and the office of the presidency. However, the DNC’s spending on Biden’s legal fees has still drawn criticism from Republicans, who have accused the party of using donor funds to shield the president from the consequences of his actions. Overall, the differing approaches of the DNC and RNC to covering the legal expenses of their party’s leaders have become a point of political contention, with both sides accusing the other of prioritizing individual interests over the broader interests of their respective parties and the American people.

Unbiased headline news for Wednesday April 17, 2024 – Six months into the Israel-Hamas conflict, the conduct and ethics of some Israel Defense Forces members have increasingly come under scrutiny. Numerous images and videos circulated by pro-Palestinian activists, viewed by millions, depict IDF soldiers blowing up buildings in Gaza, waving women’s underwear like flags, and rifling through the possessions of Gazans with gleeful expressions. — United Nations human rights experts have called for a de-escalation of tensions between Israel and Iran. The global experts, part of the U.N.’s Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, assert that the tit-for-tat attacks, including Israel’s strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria that killed two Iranian generals on April 1 and Iran’s retaliatory rocket and drone strikes on April 13, violate international law. — A divided Supreme Court is grappling with the scope of a federal obstruction statute used to prosecute hundreds of people who breached the Capitol on January 6th 2021. The court case, known as Fischer versus U.S., centers on whether federal prosecutors can apply a law passed after the Enron scandal to the January 6th assault. The measure criminalizes “corruptly” obstructing or impeding an official proceeding, and defense attorneys argue the Justice Department has turned it into a “dragnet.” — Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, may incriminate his wife when he stands trial next month to fight charges that he traded his political influence for cash, gold bars, and a luxury Mercedes, according to newly unsealed court documents. Menendez’s lawyers stated that the senator may testify about communications with his wife that will demonstrate “the ways in which she withheld information” from him “or otherwise led him to believe that nothing unlawful was taking place.” — Police have made arrests in the theft of a cargo container that included gold and other items worth over 20 million Canadian dollars, stolen from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago, authorities said. The missing goods were reported to police shortly after the container was taken from a holding area facility following its unloading from a plane. Police declined to provide more details at the time. — Dubai was hit with severe flooding on Tuesday after two years’ worth of rain fell in just 24 hours, records show. Over a half foot of rain was recorded in the United Arab Emirates city between 10 p.m. local time Monday and 10 p.m. local time Tuesday, according to the Dubai Meteorological Office. Dubai typically receives 3.12 inches of rain per year on average, according to the World Meteorological Organization. — A man who was caring for a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy when he vanished in late February pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a charge of chronic child neglect. Jesse Vang, 39, entered the plea during his arraignment in a Manitowoc County court. A judge on April 4 ordered Vang to stand trial on the neglect charge in the disappearance of Elijah Vue. Vang is being held on a $20,000 cash bond. — PepsiCo Inc has initiated a voluntary recall of some sugar-free and caffeine-free Schweppes Ginger Ale products because they contain “full sugar,” according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said in a report earlier this month that the company voluntarily issued the recall on March 9. The recall impacts 233 cases of 7.5-fluid-ounce cans, which were shipped to Maryland Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

10+ polls are currently showing that the election is getting tighter and in some key states Biden is taking a slight lead. Trump is taking action! Listen to some of the crazy things he’s saying and how desperate he sounds.

The latest polls show that President Joe Biden is narrowing former President Donald Trump’s lead, and in some key states, Biden is even taking a slim lead. A variety of reputable polling organizations and media outlets have reported these same findings. Trump’s advantage is shrinking, and Biden has managed to overtake him in certain instances. However, it’s important to note that the election is still many months away, and these poll results are likely to change significantly by the time voters head to the polls. The fluctuating poll numbers have prompted a familiar response from Trump. As he did in the 2016 and 2020 elections, the former president is now ramping up his “election propaganda” rhetoric. When the polls showed Trump with a comfortable lead, he remained relatively quiet about the upcoming election, aside from his continued complaints about the 2020 contest. Now that the numbers are shifting in Biden’s favor, Trump has returned to making radical, unsubstantiated claims. Most notably, he has accused the Biden administration of allowing undocumented immigrants to cross the border so they can vote for the Democratic candidate. Trump even held a bizarre press conference with House Speaker Mike Johnson to spread these lies. This is yet another example of Trump’s tendency to escalate his rhetoric and spread disinformation as the electoral landscape changes. His own words encapsulate this pattern: “If I win, the election was the best ever. If I lose, the election was corrupt.” It remains to be seen how the poll numbers will evolve in the coming months and how Trump will continue to respond. Voters will need to be vigilant in separating fact from fiction and relying on authoritative sources as they make their decisions. Here are some links to polls results as of the time of this article (since MAGA doesn’t believe anything against Trump): https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-donald-trump-polls-presidential-election-2024-1888914 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/us/politics/trump-biden-times-siena-poll.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/13/politics/presidential-race-near-even-split-biden-trump/index.html https://turnto10.com/news/nation-world/2024-presidential-election-republican-party-shifting-voter-demographics-recent-poll-president-joe-biden-donald-trump-decline-black-and-hispanic-voters https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3895