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A little ✨ Thursday night news dump✨:

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NEW - Biden campaign up with new ad buy that focuses on abortion, specifically on Trump's interview with Time magazine earlier this week.

Also, VP Harris to travel to Philadelphia on May 6 for remarks about abortion.

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The RNC recruiting election workers at a Trump rally in Freeland, Michigan

“It is concerning and beyond logic,' Trump senior adviser Chris LaCivita says of conservative news outlets having RFK Jr. on all the time. w/ Alex Isenstadt Brittany Gibson politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

Gov. DeSantis at a presser today in FL on his past criticisms of Trump over abortion:
'During these primaries... they have a dynamic. I think now we're in a position where we are unified across issues as Republicans.'

First sign that team Trump is concerned about RFK Jr. eating into his vote

Trump says 'it depends' if there will be violence if he loses 2024 election to Biden abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…

Morehouse not rescinding Biden's commencement invitation amid some criticism over handling of Israel-Hamas war abcnews.go.com/Politics/moreh… via Gabriella Abdul-Hakim for ABC News Politics

The winner of the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon last month is 46-year-old Cheng Saephan, a Laos-born immigrant living in Portland who had been battling cancer for eight years. cbsn.ws/3xXDeCF

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NEW: RFK Jr. is expected to announce this week he has met the qualifications to appear on California's ballot, a person familiar tells ABC News.

Kennedy said Sunday he would be announcing three states this week.

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People are sharing stories of their rescued failed hunting dogs in reaction to news Gov. Noem killed her 14 month dog:

Fla Dems chair Commissioner Nikki Fried said Democrats tried to get someone to run against every GOP incumbent in Congress. And as qualifying comes to a close Dems accomplished that goal including have someone jump into CD 2 against Dr. Neal Dunn

5 takeaways from historic Supreme Court arguments on Trump's immunity claim abcnews.go.com/Politics/5-tak… via Alexandra Hutzler and Meredith Deliso for ABC News Politics

Trump has good day arguing immunity at Supreme Court, but that doesn't nix Jan. 6 prosecution: ANALYSIS abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump… via Devin Dwyer for ABC News Politics

NEW - A last minute hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday in Trump's trial. The hearing directly conflicts with two Trump rallies in WI and MI.

Anne Hathaway confirms ‘THE PRINCESS DIARIES 3’ is happening.

“We’re in a good place. That’s all I can say. There’s nothing to announce yet.”

(Source: vmagazine.com/article/v148-a…)