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May 3, 2024

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  • Former President Donald Trump, center, at his criminal trial in Manhattan on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Trump is accused of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 presidential campaign and faces 34 felony counts.
    Tapes take Trump jurors into the heart of hush-money deals: 5 takeaways
    By Kate Christobek and Jesse McKinley, The New York Times Company
    Keith Davidson, the former lawyer for porn actor Stormy Daniels, faced a blistering cross-examination Thursday in the criminal trial of Donald Trump, with defense lawyers casting him as a serial extortionist of celebrities.
  • House Speaker Mike Johnson walks in the U.S. Capitol in Washington after the House voted to pass the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act on May 1, 2024. Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican leaders have sought to capitalize on the unrest to further drive a wedge between Democrats.
    Bill to combat antisemitism on campuses prompts backlash from the right
    By Annie Karni, The New York Times Company
    A bipartisan push in Congress to enact a law cracking down on antisemitic speech on college campuses has prompted a backlash from far-right lawmakers and activists, who argue it could outlaw Christian biblical teachings.
  • Democratic Assemblyman Howard Watts speaks Thursday, May 2, 2024, during a news conference outside Sol-Up Solar in Las Vegas. Nevada Democratic politicians called the news conference to criticize Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown for recently uncovered remarks in which he expressed support for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in nearby Nye County.
    Nevada Democrats turn up heat on Sam Brown over Yucca Mountain
    By Ayden Runnels
    Democratic Nevada representatives and local policy advocates gathered Thursday to criticize Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown for his endorsement two years ago of plans to store the nation’s nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in ...
  • Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 23, 2024.
    Our heroes often let us down
    By Solomon Stevens
    Donald Trump is in court right now. But not everyone understands that this is not a “hush money” case. He isn’t charged with being unfaithful to his wife or even with paying a woman to keep quiet about his affair. He is charged with falsifying ...
  • Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, left, embraces South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio.
    Women of Trump’s GOP jockey to be the most macho
    By Robin Abcarian
    Slaughtering wolves from helicopters? Castrating hogs? Shooting up Priuses with assault weapons? Murdering misbehaving puppies? Is this what it takes for a Republican woman to be a credible candidate for higher office? ...
  • Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor attends a panel discussion at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 in Washington.
    Calls from the left for Sotomayor to retire are absurd
    By Stephen Carter
    The left’s absurd calls for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down so that President Joe Biden can name a younger replacement should be roundly condemned. To be sure, such pressure is an American tradition in the never-ending battle to “control” the Supreme Court. But the tactic is ...
  • Hollingsworth Elementary student Jamison Heinemann demonstrates how he holds an apple in his mouth to classmate Alicia Favela Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013.
    Chefs for Kids to award scholarships to SECTA senior, UNLV freshman
    By Emma Brocato
    Alicia Lu is hoping to combine a business degree from UNLV and a passion for food into a career as a restaurant owner. Lu, a senior at Southeast Career Technical Academy who ...
  • Dallas Stars' Tyler Seguin, left, is escorted off the ice by a staff member and Nils Lundkvist, after taking a hit to the face by Vegas Golden Knights' Alex Pietrangelo in the second period in Game 5 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series in Dallas, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Pietrangelo recieved a penalty on the play.
    Facing elimination, Golden Knights try to keep composure at home in Game 6
    By Jack Williams
    Composure is the focus for the Golden Knights going into Game 6 of their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series against the Dallas Stars. Players say they can’t let the Stars take ...
  • Biden stacking clean energy wins
    By Rita Ransom, Las Vegas
    According to a report from the American Lung Association, nearly 40% of people in the U.S. — 131 million—live with unhealthy air pollution. Extreme heat, drought and ...
  • Supreme Court endangers us all
    By Dana Rideout, North Las Vegas
    There is a clear and present danger that our democracy is in jeopardy, a threat to America as we know it. The questions directed to the Justice Department attorney by ...
  • Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun poses for a portrait on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in New York to promote their film "I Saw the TV Glow."
    'I Saw the TV Glow' is one of 2024's buzziest films. It took Jane Schoenbrun a lifetime to make it
    By Jake Coyle, Associated Press
    The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is walking down a path in Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, looking for the pond they sat beside while working on the script to the film“I Saw the TV Glow.”
  • Chinese rapper Boss X performs at a concert in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Saturday, March 16, 2024. The rapper, who had come up from making music in a run-down apartment in an old residential community in the city, was now playing to a stadium of thousands.
    As hip-hop grows in China, its performers seek a voice that reflects their lived experiences
    By Huizhong Wu, Associated Press
    In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation's entertainment industry: Don't feature artists with tattoos and those who represent hip-hop or any other subculture.
  • French President Emmanuel Macron, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping after meeting the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, April 6, 2023. Xi will start his Europe tour in Paris on May 6-7, 2024, meeting with Macron, who has been stressing the idea of European strategic autonomy from the U.S.
    As China's Xi Jinping visits Europe, Ukraine, trade and investment are likely to top the agenda
    By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press
    Ukraine, trade and investment are expected to dominate Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s first trip to Europe in five years, as the Asian giant rebuilds its foreign relations after a prolonged absence during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Christian Orthodox worshippers leave the chapel basement after attending a service at the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in, Lypivka, near Lviv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 28, 2024. This Orthodox Easter season, an extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka. Two years ago it also provided physical refuge from horrors outside.
    Damaged in war, a vibrant church in Ukraine rises as a symbol of the country's faith and culture
    By Jill Lawless, Associated Press
    This Orthodox Easter season, an extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka. Two years ago, it also provided physical refuge from the horrors outside. Almost 100 residents sheltered in a basement chapel at the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary while Russian troops occupied the village in March 2022 as they closed in on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, 40 miles (60 kilometers) to the east. “The fighting was right here,” the Rev. Hennadii Kharkivskyi said. He pointed to the churchyard, where a memorial stone commemorates six Ukrainian soldiers killed ...
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