April 30, 2026

02 U.S. Politics

In pro-Palestinian rally, group calls for action ahead of DNC– www.chicagotribune.com

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Outside the 18th District Chicago police station, a group gathered Sunday afternoon waving Palestinian flags and wearing kaffiyehs in the first of many actions ahead of the Democratic National Convention being held in the city in August. In a contentious election year, the rally encapsulated a growing feeling of discontent with the political establishment.

The protesting coalition — which draws from many organizations across Chicago, from an antiwar committee to mothers who say their children have been wrongfully convicted — has a list of demands for politicians, but its main organizing principle is to stand in solidarity with Palestine and end U.S. aid to Israel.

“Our communities are diverse. Our strategies are diverse, but our goals are clear and we are steadfast,” said Amira Sohail, a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and co-chair of the Students for Justice in Palestine, which set up an encampment on the main quad of the campus. “We demand an end to the genocide. We demand an end to U.S. aid to Israel and we demand that the U.S. and Chicago stop investing in these systems that oppress us.”

Israel launched its bombardment of Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, where the group killed some 1,200 people and took 250 hostages. Since then, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Donald Trump Wins Political Contribution From Jewish Coalition– www.casino.org

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Donald Trump has secured the financial backing of the Republican Jewish Coalition, which has pledged to commit over $5 million to his 2024 campaign. The RJC has long been supported by the Adelson family, which amassed tens of billions of dollars through the Las Vegas Sands casino empire. (Image: Bloomberg)

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) works to strengthen ties between the Jewish community and GOP decision-makers. The nonprofit additionally focuses on improving relations between the U.S. and Israeli governments.

With unrest on college campuses and in major cities across the country regarding the Israeli war with Hamas in Gaza, with protests focusing on freeing Palestine, the RJC says it’s “more energized than ever” to support Trump’s candidacy for the White House.

 

Democrat Megadonor Dumps Biden, Donates $1 Million to Trump Instead– slaynews.com

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A wealthy Democrat megadonor has announced that he will not be donating any more money to President Joe Biden.

Instead, tech mogul Jacob Helberg has decided to donate $1 million to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.

Helberg acknowledges that his move will not be popular in liberal Silicon Valley.

However, he notes that “Trump was right” on several key issues.

Helberg’s $1 million donation to Trump’s re-election effort makes the tech adviser one of the largest financial backers of the 45th president’s bid to win back the White House in November.

According to The Washington Post, Helberg previously used his money and influence to support Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s doomed campaign for president during the 2020 election.

Sherrod Brown breaks with Democrats to call for Biden to oust FDIC head– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) on Monday called on President Joe Biden to replace Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin Gruenberg amid toxic workplace culture allegations at the agency.

The move was a departure from Brown’s Democratic colleagues but comes as he battles for reelection in a competitive race and has increasingly distanced himself from Biden on an array of policies.

Brown said that given the troubled claims against the bank regulator and its leadership under Gruenberg, there “must be fundamental changes at the FDIC.”

“Those changes begin with new leadership, who must fix the agency’s toxic culture and put the women and men who work there — and their mission — first,” he said in a statement.

Brown called on Biden to “nominate a new chair” immediately so that the Senate could confirm him or her, a move that would avoid an immediate resignation from Gruenberg and avert temporary Republican control of the agency by Vice Chairman Travis Hill.

HRC announces $15 million swing state campaign to reelect Biden– thehill.com

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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBTQ rights group, on Monday announced a $15 million investment to reelect President Biden in November and combat escalating anti-transgender rhetoric on the 2024 campaign trail.

The education campaign will cover six key swing states — Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Nevada — and will include paid advertising, field efforts and grassroots engagement, the group said Monday in a news release.

Recent polling suggests former President Trump leads Biden in the battleground states that will decide November’s election, though the rivals are tied at 44.8 percent nationally, based on The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s average of 700 polls pitting the two against each other.

HRC also plans to maintain “a strong ground game” in California, Texas, New York and Delaware, where LGBTQ congressional candidates — including Delaware Democrat Sarah McBride, poised to become the nation’s first openly transgender congresswoman — are on the ballot.

Liberal, Biden-Voting Mass. Town Furious that Illegals are Moving In– lidblog.com

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The leftist voters in a liberal Massachusetts town are furious that they are suddenly being inundated with the exact thing they voted for when they pulled the lever for Joe the destroyer Biden.

Norfolk, Massachusetts with 11,500 residents voted at plus 22 for Biden in 2020. But now they are peeved that Biden is doing just what he promised he would do by importing millions of illegals into this country. And now they are headed to Norfolk.

And boy are these lefties pissed.

Apparently, the state is proposing that a shuttered jail, the Massachusetts Bay State Correctional Center, be used to house illegals instead of prisoners.

US Senate confirms Schulte as federal judge; Theeler up next– rapidcityjournal.com

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For the first time since 2021, South Dakota will have a full roster of federal district judges.

Eric Schulte was officially confirmed by a vote of 61-33 in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday in Washington, clearing the way for the Sioux Falls lawyer to take the bench with a lifetime appointment in South Dakota’s U.S. District Court.

Camela Theeler, a state circuit court judge in Sioux Falls, is scheduled for a Senate vote Thursday, with all signs pointing to confirmation. She was recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee with a vote of 20-1.

“This was a smooth confirmation process with strong bipartisan support,” Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond (Va.) law professor who studies federal judicial nominations, told News Watch.

Trump Makes Liberals LOSE IT With Joke About Being ‘Three-Term’ President– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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Former President Donald Trump found his sweet spot during a weekend speech, joking about running for a third term that rallied his conservative base while simultaneously sending liberals into apoplexy.

Giving remarks before the National Rifle Association at the group’s annual meeting, President Trump harkened back to the four terms of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who extended his stay in the White House following the outbreak of World War II.

“You know, FDR 16 years — almost 16 years — he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term? You tell me,” Trump quipped according to Politico. The open question prompted audible roars of approval from the audience.

Democratic group kicks off ad blitz targeting Trump’s abortion stance– www.dailykos.com

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Voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin get their first look Monday at an onslaught of Democratic attack ads against Donald Trump that will be coming their way for the remainder of the election cycle.

The inaugural ad from the Democratic group American Bridge 21st Century features Anna Igler, a Wisconsin OB-GYN and mother of two, who decided to abort her third pregnancy due to a devastating fetal abnormality.

Igler says she “had to end a wanted pregnancy because my baby was very sick.”

“So my husband and I made a decision to have an abortion,” she says, choking up as she recalls the moment her doctor told her the baby would not survive. “That’s not a decision for any politician, including Donald Trump.”

Pro-Israel group boosts Democrats in battleground races– www.politico.com

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A prominent pro-Israel super PAC is throwing its backing behind Democrats running in a handful of competitive races, as the party grapples with how the Israel-Hamas war will impact races up and down the ballot in the fall.

The Democratic Majority for Israel PAC is issuing its first general election endorsements, shared first with POLITICO. The group is supporting three senators running in battleground states — Sens. Bob Casey (Pa.), Jacky Rosen (Nev.) and Jon Tester (Mont.) — along with three Democrats looking to flip House seats currently held by Republicans: Joe Kerr, a retired fire captain challenging Rep. Young Kim in California’s 40th District; former state Assemblymember Rudy Salas, who’s running in a rematch against Rep. David Valadao in California’s 22nd District; and former news anchor Janelle Stelson, who’s running against Rep. Scott Perry in Pennsylvania’s 10th District.

The group said it will roll out additional endorsements ahead of November. DMFI PAC does not announce its future spending plans, but has a record of notable investments in support of its endorsees. In 2022, the group spent more than $7 million on independent expenditures, primarily in House races. This cycle, it has so far spent more than $500,000 in a half-dozen House contests, along with the California Senate primary in support of Rep. Adam Schiff and for President Joe Biden.

Terrible News For Trump As Closing Arguments Delayed In Criminal Trial– www.politicususa.com

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Judge Merchan brought the parties into court early on Monday, and said that due to issues that have come up over the weekend closing arguments at the Trump criminal trial won’t happen until after Memorial Day.

Anna Bower of Lawfare posted from inside the courtroom:
First, Justice Merchan thanks the parties for coming in early. There were issues that came up over the weekend, he says.

As a result of some of those issues, it’s become apparent that we WON’T be able to move to summations tomorrow.

We will finish up evidence, the pre-charge conference, and so on this week, Justice Merchan continues.

And then we’ll move to closing arguments next week, after the long weekend.

Now we’re moving on to issues regarding objections to evidence that might be introduced during the continued cross examination of Michael Cohen.

The prosecution objects to the introduction of an email sent to Michael Cohen by Robert Costello’s law partner back in 2018.

The new schedule means that the jury might not get the case until sometime in June, and that is without any further issues or delays.

Biden appeals to Black voters and says he’s working toward an ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza during Morehouse commencement– www.weny.com

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“What’s happening in Gaza and Israel is heartbreaking: Hamas’ vicious attack on Israel, killing innocent lives and holding people hostage; innocent Palestinians caught in the middle of all this – men, women and children killed or displaced and in desperate need of water, food and medicine,” the president said.

Trump ‘does not like to surround himself with yes people,’ says Ben Carson– thehill.com

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Ben Carson, who served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under former President Trump, said his ex-boss “does not like to surround himself with yes people” when asked about his stance on abortion laws.

CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Carson on “State of the Union” to describe his conversations with Trump about abortion laws, noting that Carson has expressed support in the past for national legislation on abortion.

Trump said last month that he believes abortion law should be decided by the states in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

“President Trump does not like to surround himself with yes people. And he likes to have healthy discussions about things and recognize that in terms of saving the lives of unborn he has done more than any other president. So I give him much credit for that,” Carson said.

Pa. lawmaker introduces lithium ion battery recycling, education bill– www.lehighvalleynews.com

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Josh Siegel’s biggest fear is that a resident of one of the Lehigh Valley’s major cities will throw a battery in the trash.

After that trash gets picked up from the curb by sanitation workers, Siegel said, the battery ends up in a garbage truck, where it could burst into flames.

“And now that garbage truck is on fire in the middle of a densely-packed, crowded street, and all of a sudden cars are on fire, houses on fire,” said state Rep. Josh Siegel, D-Lehigh.

“I’m trying to prevent the loss of life and the loss of property and basically make sure that we are being as proactive as possible and making sure that we don’t have those incidents here in the Lehigh Valley.”

Arizona Republicans Set Up a Ballot Measure to Squash Future Ballot Measures– boltsmag.org

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An initiative to protect abortion access in Arizona has gathered more signatures than it needs to make the November ballot. If it passes, it wouldn’t be the first time Arizonans have used direct democracy to enshrine rights directly relevant to women. A popular initiative gave Arizona women the right to vote in 1912, years before the 19th Amendment brought suffragists nationwide victory.

Getting a measure on the ballot is expensive and onerous, says Dawn Penich, a spokesperson for Arizona for Abortion Access, the organization behind this year’s measure. But her group is determined to champion it to restore abortion rights and overcome restrictions put in place by Arizona Republicans. They’ve raised over $12 million to recruit hundreds of volunteers, train them, and send them out to canvas in high-traffic areas under the blazing desert sun. Their goal: get at least 383,923 Arizonans who are registered to vote to sign a petition so it qualifies for the ballot.

“It is grueling work,” Penich said. “I’m out in the field, on the streets, at trailheads with our volunteers many days a week.”

GOP bill to end majority rule voting dies after record-breaking 50-hour Democratic Senate filibuster– labortribune.com

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A Republican-backed bill to make it harder to amend the constitution through the initiative petition process – thus ending majority rule voting in Missouri – has died after a record-breaking 50-hour Democratic Senate filibuster that made national news.

Currently, ballot referendums generated by citizen-led initiative petitions need only a simple majority to pass. SJR74 would have required the approval of a majority of voters statewide and a majority of voters in five of the state’s eight congressional districts to pass.

The disagreement that triggered the filibuster was about “ballot candy,” items added to the bill meant to trick voters into supporting the measure. Those items included a requirement that those who vote in Missouri elections be U.S. citizens and a clause that foreign governments cannot fund ballot initiative efforts. Both items are already required under Missouri law.

Donald Trump says he’d consider Ken Paxton for US attorney general– www.dailykos.com

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Former President Donald Trump said he would consider tapping Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. attorney general if he wins a second term in the White House, calling his longtime ally “a very talented guy” and praising his tenure as Texas’ chief legal officer.

“I would, actually,” Trump said Saturday when asked by a KDFW-TV reporter if he would consider Paxton for the national post. “He’s very, very talented. I mean, we have a lot of people that want that one and will be very good at it. But he’s a very talented guy.”

Paxton has long been a close ally of Trump, famously waging an unsuccessful legal challenge to Trump’s 2020 election loss in four battleground states. He also spoke at the pro-Trump rally that preceded the deadly U.S. Capitol riot in January 2021.

Schumer tees up round two for bipartisan border bill– thehill.com

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is tee-ing up a second attempt at passing the bipartisan border bill — after Republicans blocked it earlier this year — a move that comes as the situation at the southern border remains top of mind for voters ahead of the November elections.

Schumer announced on Sunday that the Senate will take up the bipartisan border deal as a standalone measure this week. The vote is all but certain to fail amid opposition on both sides of the aisle, but it will allow Democratic leaders to flip the messaging switch on Republicans as the border dominates chatter on the campaign trail.

It will also give vulnerable Democrats an opportunity to go on the record in support of cracking down on the situation at the southern border.

“We are hopeful this bipartisan proposal will bring serious-minded Republicans back to the table to advance this bipartisan solution for our border,” Schumer wrote in a letter to colleagues.

What did FBI agents find inside a powerful New Jersey senator’s home? So. Much. Cash.– www.nj.com

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The FBI agents stepped quietly inside U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s modest white house tucked in an upscale neighborhood along New Jersey’s scenic Palisades one morning in June 2022, creeping in through the garage.

They were directed to move discreetly, none of the shock and awe of a pre-dawn raid and perp walk. Nobody was even home.

“We were sensitive that we were searching the home and executing a search warrant of a United States senator,” the FBI agent in charge of the search testified as Menendez’s federal corruption trial got underway this week, revealing a treasure trove of new details in the scandal.

New Jersey’s senior senator, along with his wife, Nadine, were at his apartment in Washington, D.C., a four-hour drive from Englewood Cliffs, even on a good day, with light traffic and U.S. government plates.

Ben Lowenthal: Hawaii Just Won’t Give Up Its Harsh Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws– www.civilbeat.org

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Police can seize property without a court process if they suspect it is connected to a crime or poses a danger.

This may sound strange, but we still prosecute property as well as people. The rationale is even weirder and dates back centuries.

Suppose you were living in ninth-century Britain when something terrible happened. You were on your way to market to sell something when a brigand came out of the bushes, demanded your goods and then stabbed you with a dagger.

If he was caught, the highway robber would be prosecuted (or worse) and so would his dagger. In fact, the Crown would confiscate it.

‘You Did The Same Thing’: CNN Host Presses Dem Rep Over Clash With MTG During Oversight Committee Hearing– dailycaller.com

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CNN host Jake Tapper pressed Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett Sunday regarding her recent clash with Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during a GOP Oversight Committee hearing this week.

Crockett appeared on “State of the Union” to discuss her viral blow up with Greene at an Oversight Committee hearing late Thursday night as lawmakers were voting on whether or not to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. During the hearing, Greene made a comment about Crockett’s eyelashes, sending the meeting into a tailspin that eventually led to Crockett making a comment in reference to Greene as she called out her “beach blonde, bad built, butch body.” (RELATED: ‘Don’t Tell Me To Calm Down!’: GOP Oversight Committee Hearing Turns Into Absolute Chaos)

“You‘ve really embraced what you said. You‘re printing it on swag, I think we have an image of the shirt here that you‘re selling to help raise money to elect Democrats. How would you respond to say it‘s inappropriate to respond to an attack on somebody‘s physical appearance. You hear the congresswoman AOC say you shouldn‘t be attacking somebody‘s physical appearance, but then you did the same thing. You attack her physical [appearance],” Tapper stated.

Ron Johnson won’t pledge to accept result of presidential election– www.jsonline.com

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MADISON – U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is not pledging to accept the result of the November presidential election, leaving a door open to objecting to the certification of election results — a scenario that prompted an attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago when former President Donald Trump lost reelection.

Johnson told The Cap Times on Saturday he could not answer whether he would accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, calling it an “impossible hypothetical.”

“We have to see exactly what happens,” Johnson said in an interview at the state Republican Party convention in Appleton. “If there are all kinds of abuses, we might have to start questioning those abuses, might have to investigate them. I certainly want to (accept the results).”

A spokeswoman for Johnson did not immediately answer questions early Sunday about what kind of events could push Johnson to seek an investigation.

Zelensky Shoots Down Macron’s Call for an Olympics Truce with Russia– www.breitbart.com

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected calls from French leader Emmanuel Macron for a truce with Russia during the Paris Olympics and criticised the West for seeking a swift end to the war.

The ancient tradition stretching back to Ancient Greece of a truce during the games will likely not be observed during this year’s Olympics in Paris, which will be held from July 26th to August 11th in the French capital.

While French President Emmanuel Macron proposed last month using the occasion for a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, it appears that neither Kyiv nor Moscow are interested in heeding the call for peace.

Biden blasts ‘outrageous’ ICC arrest warrant applications against Netanyahu and Israel leaders– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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President Joe Biden blasted the “outrageous” decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to file arrest warrant applications for senior Israeli officials such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

“The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous,” Biden said in a statement Monday. “And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”

The ICC announced early Monday it was pursuing warrants for the arrests of Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as the following senior Hamas leaders: Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, Mohammed Deif, the head of the military, and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of its political bureau.

Many Republicans and Democrats are criticizing the ICC’s decision to seek arrest warrants for Israeli officials, decrying the assumption that the crimes committed by Hamas and Israel are similar.

Israel Justice Minister Lashes Out at ICC for Seeking Arrest Warrants Against Netanyahu, Gallant– legalinsurrection.com

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Justice Minister Yariv Levin blasted the International Criminal Court (ICC) for seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:

“The decision, the purpose of which is an attempt to deny the State of Israel the right of self-defense, and the comparison between Israel’s leaders and the many murderers at the head of Hamas are a clear expression of modern antisemitism and hatred of Jews wherever they are,” he says in a statement.

Khan is also seeking warrants against three Hamas leaders — Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh.

“The State of Israel will continue to fight a just war of defense against terrorism, in the most moral manner and according to international law,” Levin pledges.

“The citizens of Israel, and many of our friends around the world, today stand strongly behind the prime minister, the leadership of the country, the IDF and the security forces,” he says in a statement conspicuously lacking Gallant’s name.

Workers Discover Cannabis Grow Outside Wisconsin’s Capitol Building: REPORT– dailycaller.com

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The Wisconsin Department of Administration removed cannabis plants Friday found growing near the State Capitol, WMTV reported.

Assistant Professor Shelby Ellison told the outlet that she believed someone planted cannabis there purposefully noting that the plants were “interspersed in the area.”

Ellison further reinforced this point by telling The Associated Press (AP) that “[i]t was just a large number of plants for it to be anything accidental.” The plants were found in a tulip patch, WMTV reported.

Biden’s Border Crisis Is Causing Crime And Chaos In States Like Michigan– americanactionnews.com

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… In Grand Rapids, an illegal alien confessed to the brutal murder of Ruby Garcia in March, and another illegal alien was recently sentenced for a murder he committed last year in the same city. Yet another illegal alien was recently arrested for breaking into a Southwest Michigan home and sexually assaulting two young girls. Members of international gangs are breaking into Michigan homes and profiting off stolen goods.

As Biden refuses to take the immigration crisis seriously, states are stepping up and filling the void. At the border, we met with National Guard troops and Texas public safety officers who are patrolling the Rio Grande, erecting barriers, and performing search and rescue operations. They’re deterring illegal crossings and saving lives.

It’s time for Michigan to follow Texas’ lead and take action. The Michigan National Guard should aid Texas with Operation Lone Star.