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'They no longer call me stupid': Trump continues to brag about passing his 10-minute dementia test

Former President Donald Trump went after President Joe Biden's mental fitness for office again in his speech before a Nebraska crowd. He explained that he scored exceptionally well when given the test by now-Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas.

The reality, however, is that the "test" was hardly a representation of what people with suspected dementia or Alzheimer's disease take. Tests for Alzheimer's or dementia take hours to gather the detail necessary. In the case of Alzheimer's disease, brain scans like MIR or CT are done to rule out other conditions.

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Russian oligarchs to be targeted in U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Schumer says

(Reuters) -U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday he will add provisions to a $33 billion Ukraine aid package to allow the United States to seize Russian oligarchs' assets and send money from their sale directly to Ukraine.

"Ukraine needs all the help it can get and, at the same time, we need all the assets we can put together to give Ukraine the aid it needs," Schumer said at a media briefing in New York City.

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Trump candidate for Arizona governor tells Fox she won’t recognize ‘illegitimate president’ Biden

Kari Lake, a former TV host who has been endorsed by Donald Trump for Arizona governor, suggested this week that she will not recognize Joe Biden as president if she wins the race.

During an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, Lake went over some of her campaign promises.

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Trump faces biggest test of his 'king-maker' clout since leaving White House

By Alexandra Ulmer and Jarrett Renshaw

(Reuters) - The month of May brings DonaldTrump the biggest test of his political clout since the end of his presidency, as candidates he has endorsed contest Republican primaries that will set the stage for November's midterm congressional elections.

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RNC complains about Biden mocking Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

President Joe Biden's Saturday evening speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner drew anger from the Republican National Committee.

"This is the first time the president attended this dinner in six years. It's understandable, we had a horrible plague followed by two years of Covid," Biden joked in a video posted to Twitter by the organization.

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'Horrible plague’: Biden rips Trump at correspondents' dinner — and even makes a coup joke

President Joe Biden roasted his predecessor during a Saturday evening speech to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

"This is the first time the president attended this dinner in six years," Biden said. "It's understandable, we had a horrible plague followed by two years of Covid."

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'Treasonous traitor' who caved to Trump on Wisconsin audit faces his Republican critics

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) caved to public pressure from Donald Trump and his supporters and extended the state's controversial audit of the 2020 election, but the man tasked with the review shared the stage with some of the speaker's biggest critics on Saturday.

"Michael Gableman got a reprieve a few days ago, when Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced the former state Supreme Court justice could continue his taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election that was supposed to end in April. On Saturday, Gableman responded by appearing on a stage with some of the Republican speaker’s most vocal critics on the right, including Vos’ primary opponent," Patrick Marley reported for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Georgia special grand jury to convene Monday to investigate Trump’s effort to overturn the election

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday will begin selecting a special grand jury to investigate Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.

The move comes 482 days after The Washington Post published a damning recording of Trump pressuring GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes" to make up the margin he lost to Joe Biden.

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'America First' Trump fans in the House accused of turning their backs on Ukraine

According to MSNBC's Zeeshan Aleem, a handful of Donald Trump's biggest supporters in the House are grasping at the slimmest of excuses to deny or slow down assistance to Ukraine as the country attempts to stave off Russian President Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion.

During a recent floor vote in the House that was designed to allow President Joe Biden the ability to quickly lease military equipment to Ukraine as well as provide other forms of assistance, the ten lawmakers who voted "no," were all Republicans closely aligned with Trump who has had his own issues with providing support with Ukraine -- and led to his first impeachment.

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Election 'theft' attorney to hand 10,000 Trump-connected emails over to Jan. 6th committee

In a late Friday filing, attorneys for John Eastman, who helped formulate a Donald Trump White House plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election, said their client has agreed to hand over approximately 10,000 Trump-related documents and emails to the House select committee investigating the Jan 6th insurrection.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, the committee has been attempting to get their hands on the documents which are part of approximately 37,000 pages of emails, with Eastman previously claiming attorney-client privilege.

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Biden, Mexican president warn of 'unprecedented' migration flow

US President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador warned of "unprecedented" pressure from migration in a call Friday that highlighted a major political headache for the White House ahead of November elections.

"In view of the unprecedented flows of migrants from throughout the hemisphere to our two countries, the presidents reiterated the need to build stronger tools for managing regional migration surges," the White House said in a statement after the call between the two presidents.

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Kharkiv shelled as US slams Putin's 'depravity'

Ukraine's second city Kharkiv was hit by more deadly shelling on Saturday while Ukrainian forces made some gains in the surrounding region as Washington slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin's "depravity".

Although Ukraine has retained control of Kharkiv, the city has been repeatedly battered by Moscow's forces and still faces daily attacks.

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JD Vance suggests Biden is deliberately letting fentanyl into America to kill rural Trump supporters

On Friday, in conversation with longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, Republican Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance offered up a new conspiracy theory: that President Joe Biden is deliberately letting fentanyl into the country to worsen the opioid epidemic and kill people in rural areas that support former President Donald Trump.

"If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this fentanyl," said Vance, a venture capitalist and the author of "Hillbilly Elegy." "And the crazy thing is, it's not just drug addicts who are affected by this, right? I mean of course most of our voters are not people who are suffering from this addiction, but they know a lot of people who are, right? Their kids are affected by it. A lot of grandparents, man, who are taking care of grandkids that they weren't expecting to take care of because fentanyl killed their children."

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