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Ohio Senate primary stakes and Princess Kate spotted in new video: Morning Rundown
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Ohio Senate primary stakes and Princess Kate spotted in new video: Morning Rundown

A heated Senate GOP primary in Ohio will be a referendum on Donald Trump. New research suggests an intermittent fasting diet could be risky. And Princess Kate is spotted out and about after weeks of online speculation about her health.Here’s what to know today.The Senate race that’s also a referendum on TrumpDonald Trump greets Ohio Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Bernie Moreno.Scott Olson / Getty ImagesBernie Moreno and Matt Dolan are are leading the pack in today’s Ohio Senate Republican primary, and while Gov. Mike DeWine says the race is only about who will represent the state, it is widely seen as a referendum on former President Donald Trump.Moreno, a wealthy businessman, heads into today’s race with support from Trump and his allies, who warn a vote for Dolan is a vote again...
Blinken lauds ‘extraordinary’ expansion of defense ties with the Philippines amid China tensions
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Blinken lauds ‘extraordinary’ expansion of defense ties with the Philippines amid China tensions

MANILA, the Philippines — Secretary of State Antony Blinken hailed on Tuesday a recent strengthening of defense ties with the Philippines as “extraordinary,” saying they would only grow further, though Washington’s expanding alliances were not aimed at China.Speaking during a visit to the Philippines, Blinken said China’s actions in the South China Sea had triggered a wider international reaction, and the United States was engaged in intense diplomacy to reaffirm international law.“We have a shared concern about (China’s) actions that threaten our common vision for a free open Indo-Pacific, including in the South China Sea and in the Philippines exclusive economic zone,” Blinken told a news conference alongside his Philippine counterpart.Ties between the Philippines and China have soure...
North Korea says Kim Jong Un supervised tests of rocket launchers targeting Seoul
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North Korea says Kim Jong Un supervised tests of rocket launchers targeting Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire drill of nuclear-capable “super-large” multiple rocket launchers designed to target South Korea’s capital as he vowed to strengthen his war deterrent in the face of deepening confrontations with rivals, state media said Tuesday.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observing the Western Region Artillery Unit's ultra-large rocket salvo firing drill, at an unconfirmed location in North Korea on March 18, 2024.KCNA / AFP - Getty ImagesThe report came a day after South Korea and Japan said they detected North Korea firing multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward waters off its eastern coast, adding to a streak of weapons displays that have raised regional tensions.Experts say North Korea’s large-sized artillery rock...
Michigan school shooter’s father threatened to destroy the prosecutor in case against him, sources confirm
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Michigan school shooter’s father threatened to destroy the prosecutor in case against him, sources confirm

The convicted father of the Oxford High School shooter said in jailhouse phone calls that he wanted to ruin the prosecutor in the case against him and that she would be going to hell soon, sources confirmed.James Crumbley made the comments to his sister while his case was pending, the sources close to the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed. The new details were first reported Monday by the Detroit Free Press.A Michigan jury last week found Crumbley guilty on four counts of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting his son carried out, killing four classmates.James Crumbley and his wife, Jennifer Crumbley, who was convicted on the same charges at a separate trial in February, are the first parents in America to be charged for a school shooting committed by their child. James Cr...
RBG Award gala to honor likes of Musk, Murdoch canceled after late justice’s family objects
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RBG Award gala to honor likes of Musk, Murdoch canceled after late justice’s family objects

A Washington, D.C., spring gala to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, Martha Stewart and Sylvester Stallone has been canceled, organizers said Monday.The invitation-only celebration at the Library of Congress on April 13 was being organized to bestow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award honors on the tech, media, finance, food and film luminaries.On Monday, the chairman of the Opperman Foundation, which chooses honorees and organizes the event independent of the late Supreme Court justice's survivors and estate, said in a statement that the group was pulling the plug to avoid fueling controversy over the 2024 recipient list."Keeping in mind that our goal is only to do good, the foundation is not interested in creating controversy," Julie Opperman said. "It is not i...
Medication abortions rose in year after Dobbs decision, report finds
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Medication abortions rose in year after Dobbs decision, report finds

Medication abortions rose in the year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a report published Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports access to abortion.In 2023, the first full calendar year since the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, there were about 642,700 medication abortions, accounting for about 63% of all abortions in the country, up from 492,210 medication abortions, or 53%, in 2020, according to the report.“This increase is indicative of the fact that people are overcoming barriers to get the care they need,” said Amy Friedrich-Karnik, the director of federal policy at the Guttmacher Institute. "Abortion is health care."Following the Dobbs decision, 14 states completely ban abortion, which includes medication abortion. Another han...
Chicago begins evicting migrants from shelters as residents decry ‘lack of respect’
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Chicago begins evicting migrants from shelters as residents decry ‘lack of respect’

CHICAGO — Chicago has begun evicting some migrants from its shelters, a controversial policy that has been delayed for months but appeared haphazard, one migrant told NBC News on Monday. Migrants who have been evicted, as well as those who are facing a rapidly approaching deadline, said there has been widespread confusion about the process and frustration with being forced to leave while they still lack the resources to find their own places to stay. In the first two days of enforcement, less than 10 migrants have been evicted from their shelters, according to the city. Five migrants were forced to leave Monday due to the policy, a city spokesperson said, while three were evicted on Sunday.Franklin Romero, a 29-year-old Venezuelan migrant, said he was told by someone at the Woodlawn she...
Pro-Trump Michigan attorney arrested after hearing on Dominion documents
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Pro-Trump Michigan attorney arrested after hearing on Dominion documents

An attorney facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C.Stefanie Lambert was arrested by U.S. marshals after a hearing over possible sanctions against her for disseminating confidential emails from Dominion Voting Systems, the target of conspiracy theories over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. Lambert obtained the Dominion emails by representing Patrick Byrne, a prominent funder of election conspiracy theorists who is being sued by Dominion for defamation.In a statement, the marshals office said Lambert was arrested on “local charges.” A Michigan judge earlier this month issued a bench warrant for Lambert after she missed a he...
Biden speaks with Netanyahu amid escalating tensions in U.S.-Israel, warns against Rafah invasion
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Biden speaks with Netanyahu amid escalating tensions in U.S.-Israel, warns against Rafah invasion

WASHINGTON — During a critical phone call Monday, President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against Israel's carrying out a planned military operation in Rafah, the White House said."Our position is that Hamas should not be allowed a safe haven in Rafah or anywhere else, but a major ground operation there would be a mistake," national security adviser Jake Sullivan said at the White House briefing where he outlined the leaders' conversation. "It would lead to more innocent civilian deaths, worsen the already dire humanitarian crisis, deepen the anarchy in Gaza and further isolate Israel internationally," Sullivan added. He said more than a million people have taken refuge in Rafah, a city in the southwestern Gaza Strip along Egypt's border, after having moved ...
Trump says Jews who vote for Democrats ‘hate’ Israel and ‘their religion’
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Trump says Jews who vote for Democrats ‘hate’ Israel and ‘their religion’

Former President Donald Trump invoked a dual loyalty trope Monday by claiming Jews who vote for Democrats hate Israel."Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion," Trump said in an interview with Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump administration official, on Gorka's web show."They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves, because Israel will be destroyed," Trump continued, going on to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions.The remarks echoed a trope that American Jews have split loyalties to the U.S. and Israel.Trump made the comments during a discussion about the Israel-Hamas war when Gorka asked about Democratic criticisms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's conservative-led government. Trump responded that he thinks...