Plus, Biden suggests South Carolina host the first primary of the 2024 presidential nominating contest..
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Good morning, NBC News readers.
President Biden's suggests that South Carolina host the first primary in 2024. Ye's Twitter account has been suspended. Hours earlier, his interview with Alex Jones garnered immediate backlash. And at least four Navy sailors at the same facility commit suicide within weeks of each other. Here's what we're watching this Friday morning. |
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Joe Biden speaks in South Carolina after winning the primary on Feb. 29, 2020. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP file) President Joe Biden is recommending that South Carolina, the state that lifted him to frontrunner status in the 2020 primary, kick off the 2024 presidential nominating contest for Democrats, according to a top Democratic source familiar with the plan. The proposed order would do away with the Iowa caucuses leading things off. Instead, South Carolina would go first, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada on the same day, trailed by Georgia and then Michigan, according to two senior party officials. In making such a recommendation, Biden has set off a frenzied scramble among competing early states that are apoplectic over the move. Read the full story here. |
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| Hours after Ye made antisemitic comments in an interview with Alex Jones and posted an image that violated Twitter's rules, Twitter CEO and self-described "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk suspended the rapper's account. |
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| The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit lifts earlier restrictions on the Justice Department's examination of classified documents and other records and will allow investigators to proceed with the probe more quickly. |
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| The rash of suicides among Navy sailors at a Virginia facility comes months after three sailors assigned to the USS George Washington killed themselves within a week in April. "We're putting Band-Aids on bullet holes," said a licensed counselor. |
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| Despite the bill's passage, two amendments were rejected: one to extend the "cooling off period," giving the relevant parties an extra 60 days to keep negotiating an agreement, and another to add seven days of paid sick leave for rail workers. |
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| CBP agents and officers are now apprehending migrants 7,500 to 8,000 times per day, sources said, and estimate daily apprehension totals might hit 10,000 when Title 42 ends. |
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| Concerned citizens in Palo Alto, California, had seen dire headlines about plastic dumping in Southeast Asia, and they wanted to know if their waste contributed. It probably does. By the city's best reckoning, roughly 60% of its recyclable material goes abroad. The search for even this much information was tough, and it would probably be just as difficult in other cities and towns across the United States, experts say. |
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